Turning Back The Pages

100 years ago — 1919

SALISBURY — Miss Frances Norton has resigned her position at G.H. Clark’s store and has gone to Ipswich, Mass., to be a farmerette. Mrs. Lester Libby will succeed Miss Norton.

A milk peddler is needed very much in Lime Rock. Won’t some one start a milk route?

There was no trolley service from Great Barrington to Canaan Saturday or mail service from Southfield to Canaan on account of the storm.

50 years ago — 1969

A road block in the way of resumption of sports car racing at Lime Rock Park has been removed this week with the signing into law by Governor Dempsey of a bill exempting automobile racing from a statute prohibiting operation of unmufflered vehicles. Other obstacles still remain to be hurdled before Lime Rock Park can schedule its first race, however.

KENT — Sixth District Congressman Thomas Meskill will fight the proposed abandonment of rail service to Kent by the Penn-Central Railway. The Republican legislator, who met with local leaders and businessmen at the Town Hall last Friday, agreed to testify on Kent’s behalf at hearings regarding the proposed discontinuance.

CORNWALL — Mr. and Mrs. Howard Brault have returned to Cornwall after spending the past four months in Texas.

CANAAN — Nicholas Noyes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Noyes, is on vacation from his studies at the University of Maine. Next week he will tour New England with the University Singers.

25 years ago — 1994

LAKEVILLE — Local residents have resigned themselves to slogging through mud this spring, but some were surprised Tuesday when muddy water spouted from their home faucets after an unannounced pipeline flush was conducted at The Hotchkiss School.

The controversy about the addition of the growth hormone BST to milk shows no sign of abating. This week, Thomaston joined Litchfield where school officials earlier adopted a similar ban on using the milk.

Items are taken from past issues of The Lakeville Journal.