Turning Back the Pages

100 years ago —
August 1923

In the recent Fleisher Yarns Knitting Contest in which women from all over the United States entered many useful and beautiful articles for competition, Mrs. Henry Woodworth, who entered a lovely knitted scarf, received a Certificate of Honorable Mention, of which she may justly be proud. This scarf and the Certificate will be on exhibition at G.H. Clark’s dry goods store, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week, so that all those interested may see them.

 

LIME ROCK — Mr. A. Rosburgh had the misfortune to burn his feet quite badly in the foundry one day last week.

 

Lieut. John J. O’Connell, formerly of Lakeville and now of El Paso, Texas, is one of the flyers who will represent the Army in the International Air Race to be held in St. Louis, Mo., from October 1st to 3rd.

 

50 years ago —
August 1973

An extremely violent wind and electrical storm swept down the east side of the Taconic Ridge Tuesday afternoon, killing four persons in West Stockbridge, Mass., and leveling trees, blocking roads and causing power outages as far south as New Milford and Newtown. Salisbury Selectman George Kiefer termed the total damage “10 times” worse than in the tornado that hit on June 29.

 

Because of the newsprint shortage, The Lakeville Journal must make better use of its space through tighter editing and strict observance of deadlines. Cooperation of readers and advertisers is requested in submitting copy as early as possible to facilitate planning.

 

Canaan town officials were notified last Friday that a portion of the old Lawrence Playground on East Main Street will be opened to the town for use as a recreational area. The property was purchased from the town by the state in the 1950s for the proposed relocation of Route 7 — a project that has never gotten off the drawing boards.

 

25 years ago — August 1998

The Town of Cornwall Tuesday was in mourning for Gary Charles Hepprich, who suffered a fatal heart attack Friday, Aug. 21. Mr. Hepprich was only 49 years old when he died, but he had made his mark in the community, serving 25 years in the Cornwall Volunteer Fire Department, including 15 as chief. He had helped found Litchfield County Dispatch back when it took hours of volunteer effort to create the present 911 system.

 

The Salisbury School library bit the dust this week, destroyed by Danks Construction Co. of Canaan. The library was built around 1912 when it was the second building on campus. It is to be replaced by a math-science complex as part of the current $15 million renovation of the all-boys’ school’s educational and sports facilities.

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

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