January 4, 1985

 

The drinking of alcoholic beverages as well as the raffling of liquor will no longer be allowed at Newtown High School athletic banquets, and if the practice is not stopped, it’s possible future banquets will be moved from public restaurants to the school cafeteria. Dr Timothy Breslin, principal at Newtown High School, said that at the football dinner one or two students won liquor in the raffle.

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The Legislative Council’s ordinance committee, which is studying the issue of whether the town needs an economic development board or commission, has scheduled a panel discussion on the topic for Tuesday, January 8, at 8 pm, in the conference room at Town Hall South.

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Newtown police reported arresting many more drunk driving suspects in 1984 than they did in 1983. Police Chief Louis Marchese credited the department’s new intoximeter, a device which measures the level of alcohol in a suspect’s blood, for the increase. People considered borderline in the past, the chief said, were made part of the arrest statistics in 1984 thanks to the intoximeter.

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With spring in the air last Saturday as temperatures rose close to 70 degrees, a reminder that winter was still coming greeted shoppers at the Queen Street Shopping Center. Shovels of many different kinds were well displayed in front of Newtown Hardware, and a number of them were sold to those who plan to be prepared when the first real snowfall is dumped on Newtown.

 

January 8, 1960

 

Special services of dedication for the new Newtown Funeral Home of Wilmot, West and Goulding will be held this Sunday at 3 pm. The dedication will mark the completion of a most extensive program of expanding, renovating and equipping to transform a residence into a modern funeral home. The funeral home is located on South Main Street diagonally across the street from the Newtown Country Club.

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Earl M. Mitchell of Hillside Lane and Dr J. Benton Egee are goose shooting this week in the island of Ocracoke, off Cape Hatteras, N.C. Ocracoke is part of the national park system and numbers approximately 600 residents. There is no doctor on the island, and it is said that when the islanders hear of a doctor visiting, they form a sort of a clinic to get some professional attention.

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The Fairfield County Extension Council launches its all-out campaign to develop its property in Bethel and the 4-H Fair and Extension Service building with a dinner for country chairmen and friends at the Trumbull Grange this Thursday evening. The plan for the future calls for a “one-stop agricultural center.”

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NEWTOWN GENERAL STORE Meat Department HINDQUARTER OF BEEF 65 cents lb., cut and wrapped. CHOICE LAMBS cut and wrapped as desired 59 cents lb. also HOMEMADE SAUSAGE 79 cents lb.

January 4, 1935

 

The chairman of the Birthday Ball Commission for Infantile Paralysis Research called together by President Roosevelt, announce that the commission will organize on a year around basis in an effort “to wipe the disease from the face of the earth.” The commission has a membership of eleven leaders in national philanthropy and research.

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Rev George T. Sinnott, for a number of years pastor of St Rose’s church in this town and now pastor St Bernard’s church, Rockville, celebrated the 40th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood on Saturday, December 22. Father Sinnott is widely known throughout the diocese as one of its most able preachers.

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Old Man Winter has been specializing in ice and slippery roads. Last Saturday traveling was very precarious because of the ice, until the roads had been sanded. While lots of cars found their ways into the ditches, there were no serious accidents in this vicinity.

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During the early hours of Thursday morning, December 27, burglars entered the Hawley High school through a basement window on the west side of the building. A typewriter was stolen from the office of Principal Carl Le Grow, and desks in various rooms were ransacked.

 

January 7, 1910

 

Charles Cole, the popular member of the automobile club, has been getting in the lime light in a way that tickles his fellow members. Right after the big snowstorm he started out from Cole’s hill with his auto. At Madigan’s he became stalled in a big snow bank and a pair of horses drew him out in triumph to the hill.

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Prominent citizens were sliding on their backs and knees in great numbers, Thursday morning, in the ice storm. On coming out of his residence C.B. Taylor was astonished to see his feet fly out from under him. He shot by The Bee office at automobile speed and was finally stopped by a collision with the watering tank.

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On Wednesday Arthur D. Fairchild harvested his ice supply, with the assistance of A.C. Moore, R.D. Smith, J.B. Fairchild and Michael Honan. On Thursday these gentlemen gathered in the ice crop of A.C. Moore and on Saturday they performed the same task for R.D. Smith. Nice 12-inch ice was housed. On Wednesday they put up the supply for Michael Honan and on Thursday hustled in the frozen blocks for J.B. Fairchild.

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Miss Loretta Northrop is quite ill with diphtheria at her mother’s home, Mrs C.W. Northrop’s on Sugar street. As a precautionary measure the children who have been exposed have been taken out of the public schools.