Turning Back The Pages April 21

75 years ago — April 1936The large cow barn on the Elmer Hosier farm went up in smoke last Sunday night shortly after 8 o’clock. The blaze was discovered by Hosier and John Hall, who was visiting the Hosier home at the time. The two and an employee on the place started to get out the 90 head of stock housed in the barn, and by fast work succeeded in rescuing all of them together with four horses.SALISBURY — Lyman Ball is now stationed at the CCC Camp at Becket, Mass.LAKEVILLE —Master Clark Peterson on Wednesday caught a rainbow trout weighing 1 1/4 pounds in Burton Brook.SALISBURY — John Ashman is in Sharon Hospital with a bad case of blood poisoning in the arm.50 years ago — April 1961Frank Markey’s cheery prognostication of an ice-free lake for the opening day of the fishing season came to pass and the ice went out of Lake Wononscopomuc during the night of April 12-13.SHARON — The friends of Eldred Hamlin will be interested to know that he returned to his home Tuesday afternoon from Sharon Hospital. Mr. Hamlin suffered a badly cut chin and face and concussion after an accident on his farm early last week.Mrs. William Raynsford was surrounded by a dozen admiring youngsters at Factory Pond last Monday morning as she expertly showed the small fry how to cast and helped untangle some troublesome backlashes. Fishing must have been good. Several youngsters passed the Journal office proudly toting impressive strings of trout.25 years ago — April 1986CANAAN — Melissa (Missy) Bartlett, 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Bartlett of Church Street, has been selected as the 1986 Connecticut State Poster Child for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Missy was diagnosed with Congenital Muscular Dystrophy at age one.Taken from decades-old Lake-ville Journals, these items contain original spellings and phrases.