Turning Back The Pages

100 years ago — October 1919

SALISBURY — Sgt. Frank Sherwood, who has been with the regular army doing strike duty in the steel strike, has received his discharge and has returned to Salisbury.

SALISBURY — Mrs. Harry Jones and son Charles have gone to Winsted where they are keeping house.

LAKEVILLE — While picking apples on Tuesday Morgan Ebert fell from the tree, but fortunately was not injured beyond a few bruises and scratches.

LIME ROCK — On Tuesday evening the roof of the lower foundry caught fire which caused some excitement for a little while.

50 years ago — October 1969

Seaman David B. Lovett, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Lovett of Salisbury, is serving aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea undergoing an Operational Readiness Inspection near Pearl Harbor.

A horse belonging to Longreen Farms, Wells Hill Road, Lakeville, was killed when a trailer carrying the horse broke away from a pickup truck and crashed into a tree last Friday afternoon on Route 41 in Sharon near the intersection of Stonehouse Road.

SALISBURY — The congregation of St. John’s Church will worship at Salisbury School Chapel this Sunday at 11 a.m. and each week thereafter, until repairs are completed on the ceiling of St. John’s sanctuary.

NORFOLK — A 20-room house on Westside Road, not occupied since 1938, was razed by fire last Tuesday. Its Long Island owner had employed the Jones Destruction Co. to demolish it. The fire, cause unknown, erupted shortly before 1:30 p.m. An alert Journal reader, George Smith, took a picture with his Minolta camera. 

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hart Vining will observe their 57th anniversary today at their home in East Canaan. They were married in Colebrook Oct. 23, 1912, by the Rev. James R. Hewitt. The Vinings report they enjoy good health and are actively occupied in the business of repairing and making seats for chairs.

25 years ago — October 1994

SALISBURY — In response to Halloween related vandalism last year that left two homes ransacked, a number of gravestones defaced and the windows of some businesses shot up, the town will impose a 9 p.m. curfew Monday Oct. 31. The curfew will apply to all juveniles not accompanied by an adult.

News items first appeared in The Lakeville Journal.