Turning Back The Pages - August 27

100 years ago — August 1909

CANAAN — Dr. George H. Knight of Lakeville has bought for Mrs. Corcoran, who was left a widow with six children a few months ago, the house she now lives in on Barlow Street. Mrs. Corcoran, before her marriage, was employed in Dr. Knight’s family.

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Thomas Meredith killed a black snake at the Davis Ore Bed on Saturday. The reptile measured six feet and four inches in length.

LAKEVILLE — A cobble gutter is being put in along the curbing in front of the Holley Block.

LIME ROCK — E. Amundson, C. Cashdollar and A. Hart went to Naugatuck Saturday in Mr. Amundson’s auto.

50 years ago — August 1959

On August 22 Miss Anna Marie Zimmermann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. George Zimmermann of Twin Lakes and Hartford, became the bride of Glenn Albert Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Floyd Miller of Canaan, in St. John’s Episcopal Church, Salisbury, with the Rev. James W. Hyde officiating at the ceremony.

CANAAN — Norman F. Holt is on vacation from his position in the Canaan National Bank. George Dings has returned to his position there following a two weeks vacation.

On August 2nd, Dr. Morton H. Robarge of Kent scored an ace on the 131 yard 4th hole, at the Sharon Country Club. Dr. Robarge was playing with his son, Bill. The hole-in-one was his first at Sharon and the second of his golfing days, with the first being made at Torrington. He used an 8 iron for the classic shot. His final score for the round was 38.

CORNWALL — Miss Melissa Clark and friend, Mrs. Frank Birmingham of Goshen, are in Cleveland, Ohio, attending a dog show.

KENT — Mrs. John O. Patterson and daughter, Mary, of Kent School, returned from a trip to Europe last week on the Liberte.

FALLS VILLAGE — Terry Wildey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wildey, has returned home after spending the past week at the 4-H camp in Warren.

SHARON — Dr. Bradley L. Coley and George M. Emory are starting Friday for a two weeks fishing trip in northern Quebec.

CORNWALL — Captain Alwin Brown and mates from his ship spent the weekend at the Brown home in West Cornwall.

25 years ago — August 1984

FALLS VILLAGE — Alexander’s Restaurant is named for its owner, who bears the unforgettable name of Alexander Alexander because his father got caught between two customs. When the older man arrived in New York from Greece in 1920, he was trailing a much longer surname that his son can no longer remember how to spell; and following a common practice among new arrivals, he simplified it to Alexander, his own father’s Christian name. When the Falls Village chef was born in 1929, his father was bound by Greek tradition to name him for his father — thus, Alexander Alexander.

Alexander, who has owned the Falls Village restaurant with his wife, Ruth, a native of Plymouth, for 13 years, has put the restaurant on the market for $300,000 because he says he’s “getting old and tired.�

News items are taken directly from decades-old Lakeville Journals and retain original spellings and phrasing.