Turning back the pages 7-16-15

100 years ago — July 1915

LIME ROCK — Mrs. Dunn and son Joe of Falls Village were in town Sunday.

Master John Neville is now bell boy at the Wononsco House.

CHAPINVILLE — Miss Amelia Woodin is clerking at Clark & Dickinson’s store, Twin Lakes, for the summer.

Increases in salaries of Connecticut postmasters have been made in many places. The salary of Lakeville’s postmaster has been raised from $1,800 to $1,900. In many other places the salaries have been decreased, among which is Falls Village, which suffers a reduction from $1,500 to $1,200.

50 years ago — July 1965

LAKEVILLE — Aviation Ordnanceman 3/c Wayne F. Neville, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis A. Neville, is serving aboard the attack aircraft carrier, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, currently operating with the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean.

An exhibit of water color landscapes of Dudleytown and points beyond by Oliver Lay, architect and artist of Stratford and Cornwall, was shown on Saturday, in the Kilham barn sawmill on Old Dudleytown road.

FALLS VILLAGE — Miss Kathy Canfield of Prospect Street is attending the national convention of the Future Homemakers of America in Philadelphia, Pa. this week. She is vice president of the state FHA.

CANAAN — Sunset Schoolmaster Barbara, a four-year-old Registered Holstein cow owned by Albert Giulian, has produced a record of 17,980 pounds of milk and 652 pounds of butterfat in 305 days.

FALLS VILLAGE — Mr. and Mrs. Ellery Sinclair of Undermountain Road are the proud parents of a daughter, Laura Mowat, born in Sharon Hospital last Friday July 9, weighing 6 pounds, 11 ounces. This is their first child.

25 years ago — July 1990

Keuffel & Esser, a fixture in Lakeville since 1951, will move its operation to Canaan on Aug. 1. They will be operating in a new building, recently completed by Anthony (Tony) Ghi at the intersection of routes 7 and 7A.

CANAAN— A light note was provided in last week’s selectmen’s meeting by Falls Village First Selectman Peter Lawson, who presented to the Canaan selectmen a replica of a flag that Mr. Lawson said was raised “To Liberty and Property” in July 1774 in “the mother town of Canaan.”

Canaan was later split into Canaan, usually called Falls Village, and North Canaan, usually known as Canaan -- to the great confusion of outsiders. “The flag was raised at a tavern called the Brazen Bull, which I’m sure must have been in Falls Village,” Lawson said, as everybody chuckled

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