Turning back the pages

100 years ago — April 1914SALISBURY — Mrs. Florence Hicks has returned from New Brunswick where she spent the winter with her son Parker. She spent the last three weeks with her son Norman in Canaan.LIME ROCK — Mr. Hopkins is the new gardener at Mrs. Clapps’.Advertisement: For Rent. For the Summer. — Furnished eight room cottage on Main Street. Piazzas, complete for hot and cold water, bath, etc. Fireplace, Garage, Electric lighting. Apply to E.L. Peabody, Wononsco House.SALISBURY — Miss Edith Ball visited Canaan friends last Friday.LIME ROCK — Harlow Merriman is catching suckers from the Housatonic River by the bushel.LAKEVILLE — Undertaker Lord is driving a new pair of good looking black horses.CHAPINVILLE — Mrs. I. Kelsey and son have been visiting friends in Sharon, Ct. 50 years ago — April 1964LAKEVILLE — Mr. and Mrs. Frank Knickerbocker and their family of Canaan have moved into their new home on Twin Lakes Road.Mrs. Frederick Miles of Salisbury is starting a new enterprise, a perambulating dress shop. She has become the agent of Doncaster Clothes, a line of meticulously tailored classics, which have been sold by individuals from their homes since 1932. After her initial introduction of the line, Mrs. Miles will take orders from her own home or in the home of her customers.SHARON — As of this Monday, the Sharon Tree Fund has increased to $1,384, about two thirds of the minimum amount considered necessary to complete the initial planting on the Main Green.25 years ago — April 1989CANAAN — The Housatonic Railroad will soon replace the Boston & Maine as a freight carrier to Becton Dickinson Co., one of the largest manufacturers in this area, according to Peter Lynch, Housatonic’s vice president for operations.CORNWALL — The field of junk cars behind Ingvertsen’s garage should soon be cleared of its unexpected crop of crushed cars by the end of the week if all goes according to schedule. A car crusher for disposal of junk cars for town residents and cars were collected on land owned by Gene Ingvertsen until it was brought to the town’s attention that it was illegal to crush cars on private property. In another snag that developed, the contractor who was to remove the cars arrived in an allegedly stolen truck cab and trailer. Finally First Selectman Richard Dakin arranged with a Wallingford contractor to remove the remaining vehicles. Not before the tangle of warped, mangled and partially cannibalized metal carcasses drew considerable attention from passersby.Taken from decades-old Lake-ville Journals, these items contain original spellings and phrases.