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This year’s Memorial Day Kickoff Soccer Tournament will be bigger than ever. The fourth annual tournament boasts 84 teams, 20 more than last year, representing over 45 soccer clubs from the eastern United States and Canada. The tournament, which runs for three days and culminates on Memorial Day, is sponsored by the Newtown Soccer Club.

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The average retail price of home heating oil dropped 10.6 cents during February, for a decline of 18.3 cents since the January peak. According to the Office of Policy and Management Energy Division’s monthly survey, the statewide weighted average retail price is .971 cents per gallon.

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The International Food Fair is an experience that no one should miss. It’s a food lover’s paradise that occurs only once a year when culinary delights from around the world are prepared, sold, and eaten at the popular Newtown Middle School fund raiser. Hundreds of parent volunteers have combined their talents to fill the fair’s booths with an irresistible array of foods from more than a dozen countries.

March 17, 1961

Judge Boyle Corrects Date: My dear Editor: To the question which you have lately considered, namely, what is the correct acreage of Newtown? may be added another: What is the correct date of the incorporation of Newtown? May 13, 1708, is the answer. However, the Connecticut Register & Manual for 1959 erroneously states as to Newtown: “Inc. Oct. 1711.” And that is the date of incorporation we locally so commonly accept… The certificate of incorporation is probably lost to us. It was, however recorded in the Newtown Land Records, Vol. 2, page 127; and in Vol. 5 of the Colonial Records of Connecticut, p. 85… Faithfully yours, John N. Boyle

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The Rev Richard R. Losch of Torrington has been named by the Rt Rev Walter H. Gray, Bishop of Connecticut, as rector of St John’s Episcopal Church in Sandy Hook, effective as of April 15. The Rev Mr Losch, who is 27 years old and unmarried, will take up residence at the parsonage of St John’s Church in Sandy Hook on April 16.

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Fairfield State Hospital: According to Mrs William Wilson, volunteer services leader, the response has been slow in the appeal for spring hats and handbags for the annual hat and purse bar for women patients, which will be held on Monday, March 27, in Plymouth Hall. Donations will be greatly appreciated for this annual event which is so popular with the women patients.

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The memorial exhibition of some of the work of the late John Angel, internationally famous sculptor, who resided in Sandy Hook until his death in October of last year, opened Sunday afternoon at the Cyrenius H. Booth Library. The exhibit was arranged by Henry Schnakenberg, chairman of the library’s art committee. There is a wealth of photographs, models, artist’s drawing and renditions here.

 

March 13, 1936

Plans are being completed for the annual St Patrick’s eve card party and entertainment to be held Monday evening, March 16, 8 o’clock, at the Edmond gymnasium under the auspices of St Rose church. Bridge, whist, pinochle and forty-five will be played during the evening, with prizes awarded at each table. Following the card playing, Professor William Connors of Danbury will entertain with songs and there will also be several dance numbers.

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Jerome P. Jackson had the misfortune to cut his hand with a chisel on Tuesday, requiring four stitches to close the wound. Mrs Anna T. Joy of Dodgingtown district, who recently underwent a serious operation, is convalescing nicely.

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Numerous “Stop” signs have been placed at intersecting roads leading on to the main routes in the Borough, by the Traffic Division of the State Highway Department, in Hartford. Motorists are asked to heed the warnings.

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Following a few days of warm weather and a day of heavy rain on Wednesday, the rivers and streams in western Connecticut began to rise rapidly. The Housatonic river exceeded the fears of even the most pessimistic flood prophets. Much damage was done in Sandy Hook where the ice battered the bridge of the state road between that town and Southbury. The water rose to a level of a few feet under the bridge. About twelve or fourteen cottages at Shady Rest were destroyed or carried away by the flood. Ice cakes, twelve to twenty inches thick, covered the Southbury road from under the railroad bridge to a distance of more than half a mile. It will be a matter of days before traffic will be resumed between Sandy Hook and Southbury.

 

March 17, 1911

Last Thursday, our Hattertown citizens surprised the Widow Siegel by drawing, sawing, splitting and piling up enough wood to last her for a long time. While Mrs Siegel was in Bridgeport the neighbors got together and made the woodpile. They were just finishing piling the wood into the shed when Mrs Siegel was seen coming home, and her friends left so quickly that she does not know whom to thank.

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John H. Frank and Charles R. Beardsley have become copartners in business. The firm bought a 25 horsepower Farquhar engine and boiler and a No. 1 Lane mill. They are now completing a wood job on which Mr Frank was at work nearly all winter.

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Ely Greenblatt has completed his seven story building in New York. The floors are all rented and the building is estimated to be worth $250,000. Mr Greenblatt will now devote more time to his farm on Botsford Hill.

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G.F. Taylor set off for Stepney, the other day, accompanied by his father, Edward Taylor, to meet a new horse he had bought. He borrowed a two wheeled gig and planned to hitch the horse on to it, while his father drove in comfort in the top carriage. His sporting blood arose as he seated himself firmly on the two-seater, hit the horse a cut with the ship and away he went. All of a sudden there came a crash and George and the borrowed two-wheeler were in a heap in the middle of the road. Fortunately no bones were broken. He had a hard work squaring himself with the old gentleman, as Mr Taylor Sr came driving leisurely along. The news reached Sandy Hook in advance of the pair and it has cost G.F.T. just two boxes of 10 cent cigars to square the matter with the Brick store boys, while a fine two-seated gig is wrecked beyond repair.