Turning Back The Pages 12-23

75 years ago — December 1935

Reflections of the Season (editorial): The “shortest� days of the year are with us — Now bring on some of that daylight that was supposed to have been saved last summer.

LAKEVILLE — Paul Argall is driving a new Ford Coach.

SALISBURY — Myron A. Millies is driving a new Buick Sedan.

LAKEVILLE — Miss Anna Gosselin has taken a position at E.L. Peabody’s real estate office.

50 years ago — December 1960

LAKEVILLE — John G. Borden, aged 9, of the J.G. Bustible Target Co. of Lakeville, saw a full-page advertisement in the New Yorker magazine in which the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission featured the Daisy Manufacturing Co., maker of BB rifles.

John sat down and wrote a fan letter to the Director of Sales and Merchandising of the Daisy Co., telling him that he, John, is in the target business supplying J.G. Bustible Targets, and that he has found the Daisy Pump Rifle to be the most accurate rifle and the easiest to operate for the least cost. He enclosed samples of his targets.

Last week an unexpected answer to his letter arrived. He received a no-charge invoice for a Daisy rifle, compliments of the Daisy Manufacturing Co.

25 years ago — December 1985

CANAAN — Ivan, Judith and Scott Christiansen of Norfolk have opened a business on East Main Street in Canaan, providing the town with its newest coffee shop as well as a well-stocked bakery. All goods are baked on the premises just hours before the family opens the shop’s doors at 6 a.m. each day.

FALLS VILLAGE — Lucille Marston will be honored at a testimonial dinner to be held at Alexander’s Inn on Jan. 6 as she officially leaves the office of town clerk of Falls Village. Mrs. Marston has served as clerk for 11 years, and as assistant clerk for 9 years.

With a sigh of relief and high praise of the cooperation between their two towns, Selectmen Charlotte Reid of Salisbury and Peter Lawson of Falls Village reopened the Amesville bridge on Tuesday morning. The selectmen cut the ribbon at 10:30 a.m., ending a 15-month inconvenience for residents who had to make wide detours to travel between the towns.

Taken from decades-old Lake-ville Journals, these items contain original spellings and phrases.

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