Turning Back The Pages - March 19, 2020

100 years ago — March 1920

SALISBURY — George Tellerday has severed his connection  with Grassland Farms, and is now employed by G.A. Selleck.

Violin Lessons — 35 cents for three quarters of an hour. Apply to Gerald A. Bauman, Lakeville. Phone 39-4.

Norfolk boasts a snow drift as big as a house. It is 27 feet high, and overspreads the Litchfield road near the overhead bridge. Shovelers have cut a channel through the huge snow bank.

A milk peddler is needed in Lime Rock very badly.

ORE HILL — Mrs. Wm. Davis had the misfortune to slip on the ice and break three of her ribs recently.

50 years ago — March 1970

This week the Journal welcomes back Amherst Eaton of Canaan who formerly had the job of Canaan reporter for the Canaan Journal page and left to assume a part-time office position with the Connecticut Western News.

While the family was out, the two-car garage in the rear of the home of the Rev. F. Newton Howden in Lime Rock was destroyed by fire last Friday afternoon. The fire was reported by a passer-by, and the Lakeville Hose Co. responded but the small wooden structure was a total loss. There was no other damage. The garage was empty at the time, but an electric hair-dryer had been used to start a car and apparently had been left on.

Ray M. Wilder of West Main Street, Canaan, retires this month after 40 years of service with the Southern New England Telephone Co. Mr. Wilder has been plant service supervisor in Canaan.

25 years ago — March 1995

SALISBURY — In a matter of weeks, the 8,000-pound hunk of gray Woodbury granite that was unceremoniously dumped at the Salisbury town sand shed this week will become a graceful curved replacement for the present water kettle next to the town hall. Clear spring water from Mt. Riga, treasured by many residents and visitors to the area, will continue to flow out the spigot as it has since 1908. The original kettle stood in the center of what is now Route 44, placed there to make it easier for horses to drink. The first kettle was made out of iron forged at a local blast furnace. In 1966 the kettle was moved to its present location and replaced with a limestone basin, which was too soft and too susceptible to freezing and thawing.

All items are taken from Lakeville Journals from that time period, and are reproduced here as they were published back then.