Just who or what is responsible for the mysterious bombardment of rocks that has mystified people in the Eichler's Cove area? Some kids playing pranks? Were they using some sort of catapult? How were the rocks, varying from small pebbles to 14 poun
Just who or what is responsible for the mysterious bombardment of rocks that has mystified people in the Eichlerâs Cove area? Some kids playing pranks? Were they using some sort of catapult? How were the rocks, varying from small pebbles to 14 pounds or better in size, tossed with such accuracy and for such an apparently long distance? Were supernatural forces involved, considering the fact that no one was ever caught in the act? While there may not be ready answers to some of those questions, it seems unlikely that the last item is involved, according to a parapsychologist who visited the Eichlerâs Cove section this week.
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Two âsalesmenâ came before the Newtown Lions Club Wednesday evening to make a pitch for support of the expansion of the Cyrenius H. Booth Library. Herman Jervis, library Board of Trustees president, and Merlin Fisk, trustee and a member of the library building committee, started the presentation by telling the Lions they hoped to sell them on the desirability of the expansion project.
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Construction is now commencing on a welcome addition to Newtown. Dual-Lite Incorporatedâs new corporate headquarters, planned for the former McNamara property on South Main Street, between Mile Hill Road and Rickyâs Shopping Center. Company officials and their guests gathered on the rolling, wooded 13.2-acre tract Monday afternoon for the formal groundbreaking ceremony for the $2 million facility.
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A Department of Environmental Protection air compliance inspector visited the Charles Batchelder Company in Botsford last week and concluded there would be âa long period of problems and troubleâ for the aluminum recycling operation.
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A former one-room school house on Route 302 in Dodgingtown was partially damaged by fire, and a storage shed attached to it completed destroyed on Tuesday night around 9:15. The Dodgingtown Volunteer Fire Company under the direction of Chief Jack Trembly responded to the call, assisted by the Hawleyville Volunteer Fire Company and men under the direction of Chief Frank Johnson. Also, Engine I and Tanker I with Hook & Ladder volunteers responded.
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The Public Building Committee heard a status report Tuesday, September 12, about the Lovellâs of Ruwet-Sibley building on Main Street, which is being investigated for possible town purchase as a new fire station and police headquarters.
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Enthusiasm and high spirits accompanied the opening days at Newtown High School; more than 1,450 students tackled new classes, new teachers, and new locker combinations. Extensive building repairs shut down the hot lunch capacity of the cafeteria for three days and the patio area for up to three weeks. Because the swimming pool filter broke, the pool was closed for a few days. Other summer mishaps were evident to the students. Buckled gym floors and soggy sheet music were the results of roof leaks, and all audio-visual materials were withheld until Mr Goodsell could recoup from the recent break-in to his area. Roof leaks last weekend caused ceiling tiles in âBââ wing to collapse and flooding occurred. When students opened their lockers Monday morning, water gushed out from between their books. Head Custodian Al Lescrynski says that until the roof repairs are complete, leaks like this will happen. Enrollment is up once again and evidence of a crowded building is obvious.
SEPTEMBER 18, 1953
Republicans and Democrats gathered in party caucus Monday night at the Edmond Town Hall to name candidates for the biennial town election on October 5. Approximately 200 Republicans met in the gymnasium, with about 100 Democrts attending their caucus in the Alexandria Room. There were few contests in either caucus, with the exception of candidates for the Board of Education, who were selected by ballot in the Republican causus.
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Newtownâs Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary sponsored a dance in Edmond Town Hall gymnasium last Saturday night to raise funds for finishing Veteransâ Memorial Building on South Main Street. Mrs Thomas Keating headed the dance committee which included Mr and Mrs George Powell and Irving Shaw.
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People from Newtown and the surrounding area are invited to open house at the Southern New England Telephone Company building on Queen Street next Thursday and Friday nights, September 24 and 25, it has been announced by Thomas H. Tuohy, manager. The open house follows the recent change from manual to dial operation in the telehone exchange here. Visitors will see the intricate dial equipment in the new telephone building.
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 Edmond P. Farrell, son of Mr and Mrs Matthew Farrell, Half Way River District, returned home last Saturday, September 12, following his discharge from the Army at Camp Kilmer, N.J. Mr Farrell, a graduate of Hawley High School, entered the Army on October 9, 1951, and served in Germany as a tank driver from April 1952, attaining the rank of corporal.
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 A lengthy legal notice appears elsewhere in this issue, calling a special town meeting for Tuesday evening, September 24, in the Alexandria Room of the Edmond Town Hall at 8 oâclock. The purpose of the meeting is to rescind action taken at a previous town meeting on October 10, 1952, when an agreement was made with the State Highway Commissioner regarding the construction and relocation of US Route 6 in the Town of Newtown. In place of the original agreement, the warning for next Thursdayâs meeting calls for adoption of a revised agreement with the State Highway Commissioner regarding the relocation of US Route 6 and accesses to it.
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The first session held last Saturday by the Board of Selectmen and the town clerk to make new voters in preparation for the town election on Monday, October 5, resulted in the adding of 25 new names to the town voting lists.
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The Rev T. Bradley Longstaff, pastor of the Newtown Methodist Church and the East Village Methodist Church, Monroe, preached last Sunday at the Prairie du Chien, Wis. Methodist Church, while on vacation.
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Adrian David, a member of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations secretariat, told members of the Newtown Rotary Club of some of the achievements of the UN at a dinner meeting on Monday evening, September 14, at the Stony Hill Inn, Bethel.
SEPTEMBER 14, 1928
William A. Upham has placed at the head of the staircase on the wall in the Japanese Tea Garden house in Hawleyville a very interesting and valuable old Japanese painting.
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Mr and Mrs George M. Stuart entertained at the bridge held at the Newtown Country Club last Monday evening. There were seven tables to enjoy the game. The highest scores were made by Mrs Irving Jones, Miss Adeline Hurd, Professor G.C. Job, and Walter Reynolds.
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William D. Parker served a clam bake at Joseph Durandâs place, when 60 men enjoyed one of Mr Parkerâs unsurpassed bakes.
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Mrs James Marshall was hostess, Wednesday, at a luncheon at her home on Newtown Street. After the main courses had been served at the house, the party adjourned to the play house in the garden, where the luncheon was finished.
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Further proof of the progressiveness and versatility of William A. Upham, well known in tea, coffee, flavoring extract, and grocery circles, is to be found in the fact that on August 4 in Hawleyville, he opened to the public a thoroughly modern up-to-date and attractive Japanese tea garden.
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Rev and Mrs Paul Cullen returned from a vacation passed in Wakefield, R.I. and New Hampshire.
SEPTEMBER 18, 1903
Wheeler and Manville captured five more red adders last week, east from the Housatonic River on the Lee Farm.
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Charles Minor of Berkshire had the misfortune the other day to break the pole to his wagon while backing in a load of potatoes to put into the cellar of his house.
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Twenty-four volumes were added to the library last week, 17 of which were given by Mrs Samuel Curtis and seven by Mrs W.T. Cole.
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Principal Ross Jewel deserves credit for his energy. He has begun improving the school grounds. Securing permission, he chopped down one of the old apple trees in front of the Academy building and Monday the pupils felled two more.
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Mrs Arthur Beardsley of Zoar has twice seen a fine young deer near her home in the past two weeks.
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Fred Sherman of Zoar has killed two large red adders on the road between his home and the Stevenson Depot in the past two weeks.
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The selectmen and town clerk of Newtown will be in session at the town clerkâs office on Saturday, September 26, from 9 am to 8 pm for the purpose of making voters.
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Miss Lucy Wright went, the first of this week, to Taunton, Mass., where she is engaged as the secretary of the Associated Charities of that city.