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The Chamber of Commerce has announced details for the Christmas tree lighting it plans Friday, December 13, on the Ram Pasture. The tree will be lit at 7:30 pm, at which time Santa Claus appears in a sleigh. The Newtown Cemetery Association has given the Chamber permission to use a 50-foot evergreen tree.

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Angry business owners and concerned citizens filled the Town Hall South meeting room to express their opposition to the borough’s planned building moratorium. The moratorium would prohibit any consideration of applications for zone changes to professional or business zones along Main Street and all applications for site plan review until July 1, 1987.

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Newtown Congregational Church members voted by more than a 2-to-1 majority to sell 2.3 acres of property to John Vouros, middle school teacher, and William Reibe, builder. The congregation agreed to sell the original Yankee Drover property. Mr Vouros intends to build a “landmark structure to become a restaurant and inn” on the Main Street property, according to Jeane Roberts, moderator for the church.

 

November 25, 1960

The Cyrenius H. Booth Library has received a gift of $5,000.00 under the terms of the will of the late Newton M. Curtis, “for general uses of the Library.” Mr Curtis, a native of Newtown, died March 1, 1960, at his winter home at St Petersburg, Fla. He had served Newtown as a former selectman and for 22 years represented the town in the General Assembly.

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Construction has commenced on a new office for the Newtown branch of the Connecticut National Bank. It is to be located in the Shopping Center facing Queen Street, across the main entrance from the new post office. The new building is of colonial design constructed of brick.

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New England’s first atomic power plant has commenced delivery of electricity to New England integrated power systems including The Connecticut Light and Power Company, which is the second largest investor in the Yankee Atomic Electric Company. The 136,000-kilowatt Yankee plant began generating electric power on a test basis last Tuesday.

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A mare, six months in foal, owned by Samuel Nezvesky of Huntingtown met an untimely death on Sunday. Evidence shows that the horse was mysteriously shot in an open lot some time during the day. When Mr Nezvesky went to feed the animal in the early evening, she did not come at his usual whistle. Upon investigation, he found the sorry cause. The whole incident is still very much of a mystery. We plead for the sane handling of guns, and for the lives of our local livestock — horses, in particular.

November 22, 1935

A.F.A. Konig of Minkdale Farms has sold his mink stock and equipment to Mrs Frederick Fox of South Salem, N.Y. Mrs Fox, who is owner of the Black Fox Magazine, runs a breeding farm of over 100 minks. While Mr Konig will no longer continue to raise minks he will act as consultant on the subject in which he is so well versed.

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The ice storm on Sunday made the Newtown hills treacherous for the motorists. Supervisor William D. Corbett of the State Highway Department with his force of men were kept busy the better part of the day in sanding the hills and curves.

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Work has been started on the former Beach Memorial Library, remodeling the building into a residence. The library was bought about a year ago by State Trooper Edward G. Hatfield of the Ridgefield Barracks.

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The officers of the Newtown Chamber of Commerce consider themselves very fortunate in the program which is being arranged for the November meeting to be held at the Parker House, November 28. The principal speaker will be Rev Charles D. Kepner, Jr, of the Stafford Springs Cong’l Church. His subject will be “Mexico’s Problems and Aspirations.” He has a most interesting story to tell of that country, which is a neighbor to the United States, and yet is so entirely different.

November 25, 1910

Frank Wilson, who has conducted a grocery wagon through the southern part of the town and through Easton, wishes to thank the public for past patronage and solicits a share for the public trade in the future. Mr Wilson will have his headquarters at Hattertown in the future.

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Kemps’ Balsam, 25 cents; Lane’s Tea, 25 cents; Beef, Iron and wine, 50 cents; Dr Porter’s healing oil, 25 cents; Laxative Bromo Quinine, 25 cents; Antiphlogistine, 50 cents and 75 cents; Dr Mile’s Nervine, $1; Foley’s Kidney Pills, 50 cents; Atwood’s bitters, 25 cents. At Corbett & Crowe.

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The donation visit paid by St John’s parishioners to Rev and Mrs O.O. Wright, last Thursday evening, was an enjoyable affair. The harvest supper served by the ladies’ of St John’s was, of course fine. The gift to the rector amounted to $103.45 in cash, the largest amount given at any donation.

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John R. Peck had three fine turkeys stolen, one night last week.