Turning Back the Pages

100 years ago — January 1919

The Robbins Burrall Trust Co. have installed this week a Burroughs Ledger Posting and Statement machine. This machine, which is electrically operated, is the “last word in mechanical bookkeepers” and was purchased in order to keep up with the growing business of the company.

LIME ROCK — Some people are filling their ice houses from Gillette Pond. The ice is eleven inches thick.

100 years ago — January 1919
CANAAN — Charles Dutcher has entered the employ of the William L. Gilbert Clock Co. in Winsted.
 
SALISBURY — Stanley Sherwood has given up his position in Torrington and is now employed at the Holley Mfg. Co.
 
CANAAN — A.P. Briggs has sold his livery business to Maurice Paviol, who has taken possession.
 

100 years ago — 1919

LIME ROCK — Miss Yerkes has resigned her position as teacher in the school.

Goldwyn Pictures are now beginning their second year and are shown in the most exclusive houses of the country. Goldwyn releases but one picture a week and the entire organization is directed on making that picture the best it is possible to produce.

100 years ago — December 1918

SALISBURY — William Parsons is the new clerk at Dickinson’s Drug Store.

Major Joseph Bidleman Bissell, the noted surgeon and radium specialist, died Monday at his home, 46 West 55th St., New York, in his 60th year. He had been ill only three days, and had come home for Thanksgiving from Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, Md., where he had been chief surgeon and had contracted infection of the blood.