Turning Back The Pages 3-17

75 years ago — March 1936Reflections of the Season (editorial): War clouds again darken the European skies. If the people of Europe would only catch their dictators, big generals and higher diplomats and politicians and put them out on the front lines, there would be no war. This class of men who bring about war through various pretexts almost always die in bed at home with doctors and nurses in attendance. It is the common man who does all the fighting and has all the misery of the battlefield, and if he lives always has to pay for the sport of kings and dictators.SALISBURY — Edwin Pickert has moved into the Ashman house on Grove Street.TACONIC — Frank W. Bierce is confined to his home with bronchial pneumonia. Mrs. Fannie Baldwin of Canaan is caring for him.SALISBURY — Robert Scibner has entered the employ of the Connecticut Power Co. at Canaan.50 years ago — March 1961SHARON — Arthur Lamb, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Lamb of Hilltop Road, left on Tuesday for spring training at Jacksonville Beach, Fla. From there he will go to a Pittsburgh Pirate minor team.FALLS VILLAGE — Army PFC Fred E. Grimes, son of Mr. and Mrs. V. Grimes, recently was airlifted with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 503rd Infantry to Panama, where he participated in a paratroop drop. CORNWALL — Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Sellew have moved to their home on Dibble Hill intending now to make their permanent home in Cornwall. CANAAN — Robert Brucker, manager of the Canaan Army-Navy Store, spent the weekend in New York shopping for spring merchandise.25 years ago — March 1986LIME ROCK — Staff Sgt. Elisa D. Mackendree, daughter of Earl and Laura Johnson, recently graduated from the U.S. Air Force Non-commissioned Officers Leadership School. She is serving a four-year tour of duty at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi as a technical training instructor.Taken from decades-old Lake-ville Journals, these items contain original spellings and phrases. The compiler wonders if, in the next-to-last item, the name was misspelled and should be Robert Drucker.

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