Turning Back The Pages

100 years ago — 1907

SALISBURY — Albert Miller has resigned his position as carrier on the R.F.D. route. George Traver is at present carrying the mails.

 

LIME ROCK — Miss Eva Handlin of Cornwall is a visitor at William Stone’s.

 

SALISBURY — Joseph Honour is going out of the dairy business. Says that good hired help is so hard to get that he cannot carry on the business.

50 years ago — 1957

LIME ROCK — Overheard at the track crossing between races: Forbidden permission to take her small son across the track "to see the cars," a woman pointed angrily to a small figure standing in the "pit." "How did HE get there?" she demanded. "I don’t know, lady," sighed the tired official, "must have been born there. Nobody got by me!"

 

LAKEVILLE — Mr. and Mrs. Donald Duntz became the parents of a little girl named Rebecca on April 22. Congratulations. The baby, who was born at the Sharon Hospital, weighed eight pounds, two ounces at birth.

 

SALISBURY — The Bloodmobile will be at the Salisbury Town Hall on May 31 from noon to 5 p.m.; so be sure to eat plenty of steak and liver this month so you’ll have lots of nice rich blood to donate to the Red Cross that day.

 

LIME ROCK — April 25 is the birthday of Paul Anthony, the 7 pound, 2 1/2 ounce son of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson B. Collier.

25 years ago — 1982

CANAAN — A. Paul Ramunni, a certified public accountant, opened his new office two weeks ago on the second floor of the Raynard & Peirce building on Main Street.

 

The purchase of the Boston & Maine Railroad by Guilford Transportation Industries may result in lower fares for shippers on the Canaan to Pittsfield line, David Fink, vice president of Guilford, said Tuesday.

— Norma Galaise

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