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Turning Back the Pages - April 2, 2026

125 years ago — 1901

FALLS VILLAGE — Harry Dickinson of North Kent creamery spent Sunday at home.

J.P. Wadhams of Torrington, civil engineer, has gone to Sharon to start state road improvement in that town.

The state legislature is considering the advisability of adopting voting machines for state elections. From all reports the change would be desirable and help to do away with some of the corruption on election days.

FALLS VILLAGE — Mr. Jos. Wickwire lost his family horse Monday, he had just had it clipped and it took cold, had congestion of the lungs.

It may not be generally known that the Consolidated road owns and operates a hospital car, the only one of its kind in the country. It is fitted up with all the conveniences of a modern hospital.

One hundred newspapers for ten cents at the Journal office. Good for putting on shelves or under carpets.

100 years ago — 1926

Paul Argall is able to be out after a siege with the measles. Little Ruth Smith is ill with the measles.

Albert Tompkins has sold his closed car to Geo. H. Sylvernale.

Six of the forestry crew who are hunting the gypsy moth are boarding at Mrs. Lois Wright’s.

50 years ago ­— 1976

State’s Attorney John Bianchi said this week he would proceed to re-try Peter Reilly. This came after Reilly won a major battle last Thursday in his fight to clear himself in the death of his mother when Judge John A. Speziale granted a new trial. The state filed the request to appeal Speziale’s decision Monday in Litchfield Superior Court but the request was denied by Speziale. The only other recourse the State’s Attorney’s office has is not to press charges of manslaughter against Reilly.

Thursday marks the opening of a new family medical practice in Falls Village. Edmund J. King, M.D., will practice from Dr. Carl Bornemann’s office on Beebe Hill Road.

The script called for a crowd. But where in Cornwall does one find a crowd? At the door of the First Church on Sunday, of course! That is how it happened that the congregation got into the movies. The film “The Arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday” is being filmed by the church school, and although some substitutions had to be made, a pony for an ass and pine branches for palms, the spirit is there. Be sure to catch this film when it runs locally.

Chuck Willing was named Most Valuable Player in the Kent Center School intramural basketball program concluded last week. Willing led the Yellow Jackets to a 5-2 season and championship of the four-team league.

25 years ago — 2001

SALISBURY — For the second year in a row, the Litchfield County winner in the Connecticut Fire Prevention Poster Contest is from Salisbury. Christian Sherrill, a fourth-grader at Salisbury Central School, created this year’s winning entry.

SHEFFIELD — A small group of growers, proposing to establish a farmers’ market in town, have received verbal support from the Board of Selectmen and police chief, although details of the plan still need to be worked out.

Two students from Housatonic Valley Regional High School were winners in the High School Essay contest sponsored by The Connecticut Foundation for Open Government. First prize of $500 went to Rebecca Willis of Lakeville and third prize of $200 was awarded to Allison Holst-Grubbe of Sharon.


These items were taken from The Lakeville Journal archives at Salisbury’s Scoville Memorial Library, keeping the original wording intact as possible.

The views expressed here are not necessarily those of The Lakeville Journal and The Journal does not support or oppose candidates for public office.

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