Turning back the pages

100 years ago — 1913LIME ROCK — Chester Patterson was out of town over Sunday; we hear that Chester is to resign his position with Barnum and Gager and is going to work in Waterbury, soon.CHAPINVILLE ­— John O’Hara has purchased a new power feed mill and is ready to do grinding on a large scale. The engine is the fine gas engine put out by the Fairchild Company of Bridgeport and is a fine one in every way.LIME ROCK — Arthur Pierce burnt his arm quite badly one day this week, while at work in the foundry. LAKEVILLE — Peter Garrity is once more driving an extremely well matched pair of sorrel heavy draught horses for the E.W. Spurr Co. One of the original pair died recently of colic, but another horse was purchased in Winsted to fill the vacancy, the new animal proving an almost exact substitute for the defunct horse.CHAPINVILLE — Harry Smith who had his hand shot is doing very well. It is expected he will be home soon.50 years ago — 1963FALLS VILLAGE — Miss Marion J. Atwood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grover C. Atwood, is the winner at the Housatonic Valley Regional High School of the 1963 Betty Crocker Search for the American Homemaker of Tomorrow.The Lakeville Fire Department answered a call on Sunday morning to the home of Dwight Luster on Indian Mountain Road, where a tractor had caught fire in the driveway. The machine was being used to plow snow and caught fire while being refilled with gasoline.CANAAN — Miss Emma Rood has returned to the David H. Roger home on Barlow Street after having been a patient at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington, Mass. 25 years ago — 1988CANAAN — Despite the initial arrival of only six firemen, Canaan and Norfolk firefighters managed to put out a fire last Friday at the home of Richard Surdam on Patty Lane.The Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department was called in for assistance and eventually 35 firefighters from the two towns put the blaze out.Taken from decades-old Lake-ville Journals, these items contain original spellings and phrases.

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