Turning Back the Pages - July 12

100 years ago — July 1912
SALISBURY — Reverend and Mrs. D.N. Kirkby gave a very pleasant tea at the Rectory last Wednesday, from four to six o’clock.

LIME ROCK — Eli Doyle has gone to the White Mountains to spend a few months. Eli says that is the place to cure hay fever.

C.W. Barnum is spending some time in town at present as the iron business is continually increasing and the car wheel shop will be in motion in the near future.

LAKEVILLE — Mrs. W.B. Perry has an amaryllis plant which has been very beautiful the past two weeks. The plant contained over 100 beautiful red blooms and was well worth looking at.

50 years ago —July 1962
Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Wells of Brewster, N.Y. and Salisbury celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last Sunday afternoon at their camp on Mt. Riga. About 100 guests, including four of the original wedding party, were gathered to enjoy lunch and swimming.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lamb have announced the birth of their son Todd Richard, born on July 4 at the Whitestone Hospital in Whitestone, N.Y. Mr. and Mrs. George Lamb, grandparents of the baby, and their son John made a trip to New York this weekend to see the new infant. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lamb of Sharon attended the double header, New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals ball game on Saturday at the Polo Grounds in New York. On their way home they also stopped in Whitestone to see the new baby.

CANAAN — Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Finkle have purchased the house on the Lower Road from Mrs. Amelia Melde. The Finkles had been renting the house from Mrs. Melde for some time.

25 years ago — July 1987
LIME ROCK — Movie star Tom Cruise and his racing mentor Paul Newman drew the early gawks from a crowd calculated to be 12,700 at Lime Rock Park Saturday. But by the end of the eight-race, Sports Car Club of America Fourth of July program, all eyes of racing fans remembered 19-year-old Scott Sharp. Sharp, of last year’s SCCA G-2 national champion and son of the founder of the Newman-Sharp Racing Team, piloted his Nissan 300-ZX turbo to victory in the GT race, the sixth event on the card.

Items are taken from decades-old Lakeville Journals and contain original spellings and phrases.