Turning Back the Pages - March 22

100 years ago — March 1912 LIME ROCK — Mark Dean’s children have the measles.LAKEVILLE — E.J. Stuart has sold his auto to David Hatmaker.LIME ROCK — Sam Vosburgh is the new janitor, at the school house.LIME ROCK — Charles Cashdollar has in his flower garden a plant that has ripe strawberries all ready to pick. 50 years ago — March 1962 The Lakeville 4-H Hopperels and Cockerels have a brand new and tremendously exciting project. They are going to breed chickens and rabbits for the Children’s Zoo in Central Park.The New York Central has notified the Governor’s Office of Transportation and the Tri State Transportation Commission that it intends to petition the Public Utilities Commission to stop all service from Millerton to Chatham, N.Y., and abandon the line, Charles Trayford, traffic consultant, told members of the Harlem Valley and Connecticut Transportation Committee at their meeting last Friday night in the Millerton firehouse.Mr. and Mrs. John Fitch of Lime Rock are in Sebring, Fla., where Mr. Fitch will race in the 12-hour Sebring Grand Prix of Endurance next Saturday. He will be a member of the Briggs Cunningham team. Peter Pulver of Millerton, N.Y., and Newton Davis of Lime Rock are also entrants in the race. 25 years ago — March 1987 Once again, waste proved to be a hot topic in Canaan Wednesday. Firefighters put out a fire at the landfill that had consumed a number of bales of plastic. Fire Marshal Edwin Gow said that the blaze was probably caused by windborne embers from a controlled brush fire elsewhere at the dump.George Roussis has purchased the Canaan Package Store on U.S. Route 44 from George Gustafson, who owned the business for eight years. Taken from decades-old Lake-ville Journals, these items contain original spellings and phrases.

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