75 years ago — May 1935
Reflections of the Season (editorial): If an apple a day will keep the doctor away, a raw onion a day should keep the bill collector away.
LIME ROCK — Mr. and Mrs. Martin Merriman and mother, Mrs. Julia Merriman of Falls Village, spent Sunday at the home of Harlow Merriman.
SALISBURY — Repairs are being made to the White Hart Inn, which it is understood will open soon for the summer season.
50 years ago — May 1960
SALISBURY — Mrs. Gladys Travis of Canaan was a Saturday caller on Mr. and Mrs. David L. Holmes.
LIME ROCK — Timothy Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Johnson Jr. of Sharon, spent last week with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Johnson, in Lime Rock. While visiting, Timothy enjoyed a party with a group of his friends in celebration of his fifth birthday.
CORNWALL — Major Lewis Cartwright has returned to McGuire Air Force Base after spending the past week with his mother and sister in West Cornwall.
The crowning touch of the Sharon Hospital Auxiliary’s Annual Benefit May 4 was the fact that the Triumph Estate Wagon was won by the hospital’s hard-working second engineer, John Metcalf (a Britisher in origin who particularly likes English cars.) Mrs. Metcalf also is employed at the hospital and their daughter is studying dietetics with the hope of someday joining her parents.
25 years ago — May 1985
SALISBURY — A spectacular fire early Wednesday claimed the lives of 70 cows as it destroyed a picturesque old barn on the Belter Brothers Farm on the Lime Rock Road. A brand new $20,000 tractor was lost in the barn, and substantial corn silage stored nearby also was destroyed. Firemen were able, however, to save a shed adjacent to the barn that contained many of the farm tools.
A Lakeville Hose Co. fire truck was badly damaged and one fireman was slightly injured in an accident on Between-the-Lakes Road in Salisbury early Sunday morning. A dirt embankment along the West Twin Lake side of the dirt road gave way as the 22-year-old Ford truck moved to the right to avoid an oncoming vehicle, according to State Police.
The fire truck overturned and landed on its roof in three to four feet of water. Mike Golden, 21, a passenger, was slightly injured when he left the cab through a broken window. The vehicle’s cab was filling with water as Mr. Golden kicked the window out and then returned from the shore to aid William M. Whitbeck, who was driving the fire truck.
Items are taken directly from decades-old Lakeville Journals and contain original spellings and phrases.
