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Members of the town committee planning Newtown’s observance of Connecticut’s 350th birthday met at The Flagpole intersection on April 23 to plan the town’s ceremony scheduled for noon on Wednesday, May 1. The ceremony will include a speech by First Selectman Jack Rosenthal, music by the Newtown High School Marching Band, the presence of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, and the release of 350 balloons by schoolchildren.

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State police are investigating the death of a 19-year-old Fairfield Hills Hospital man who died in Kent House on April 21. The patient had asked hospital workers to restrain him because “He thought he would hurt himself or others,” Dr John Scales said. Cloth arm and leg restraints were used to tie him to the bed. At 10:25 he had asked a nurse for more medication and when he was going to be freed. When a nurse and a mental health worker went to untie him at 10:45 pm, he was dead.

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When the Olympic Torch passed through Newtown in the early evening of May 11, 1984, on its way to the summer Olympics in Los Angeles, firemen from the Newtown Hook & Ladder and Bethel Volunteer Fire Company raised a huge American Flag over Route 6 on the Newtown-Bethel line. This scene, along with interviews with Newtown firemen Tim Gies and Bernie Meehan, was included in Carry the Fire, a newly produced AT&T documentary on the torch relay.

 

April 29, 1960

On Tuesday, May 3, at 2:15 pm, the “take cover” signal will be sounded by the Fire Company sirens in our town. To all of us this will be the signal for the commencement of a nationwide Civil Defense alert that will last for three days. In Newtown, participation will be limited to a fifteen-minute period between 2:15 and 2:30 pm, during which all vehicular traffic will be stopped and pedestrians will seek shelter indoors. The members of the Board of Selectmen and your Civil Defense organization sincerely hope that it will never be necessary to be called out on an actual alert in the event of an enemy attack.

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Members and friends of Trinity Church are invited to be present Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock for a service of dedication and thanksgiving upon the completion of the extensive renovation program. The evening prayer service preceding the dedication will be read by Rev Edward A. Skipton, rector of Trinity Church.

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Billows of heavy black smoke poured from the building on the David Steinfeld farm on Huntingtown Road in Botsford, on Friday morning, when the farm was stricken with a barn fire that destroyed the main barn, two silos, the horse barn, a few sheds, a corn crib and a garage. A total of 20 calves and heifers were led out of the barn when the fire was first discovered. The Steinfelds have moved their cows to the Arthur Bennett Arlyn Farm for milking.

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State Highway Commissioner Edward S. Ives has announced that a survey party is now at work on Route Conn 34 in Newtown to make the preliminary survey in preparation for the construction of a truck climbing lane. The project starts at the Monroe-Newtown town line and goes northwesterly for approximately 2.2 miles to Great Ring Road area. The design is scheduled for completion in the fall of 1962.

April 26, 1935

Two suggestions for controlling the bumper crop of canker worms, commonly called inch or measuring worms, expected this spring, are given in the annual report of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Proper bands kept sticky this month will catch many of these in their ascent. Bands are best used on isolated trees. Spray is preferable. To 100 gallons of the usual lead arsenate spray, used as a stomach poison for insect pests, add one pint of 40 percent nicotine solution. It may be necessary to make a second application.

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Everyone in Connecticut is urged by the Tercentenary Commission to participate in the inauguration of the Tercentenary of 12 o’clock noon, this Friday, April 26, through the ringing of church bells, and the blowing of factory whistles and automobile horns. The clanging of bells and the blowing of whistles and horns are to be continued for two or three minutes so that everyone in the state may be made aware that the Tercentenary is underway.

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On Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings, at 7:30 o’clock, a triduum will be held at St Rose’s church to mark the closing of the Jubilee year which commemorates the nineteen hundredth anniversary of the Crucifixion of Christ. These services are held in response to a special plea of Pope Pius XI, who asks all the world to pray for peace that another apparently threatened world war may not come to pass.

 

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At a special town meeting held in the Alexandria room of the Edmond Town Hall, last Friday evening, the selectmen were authorized to make arrangements in the name of the town with the Highway Commissioner for the construction of roads to be improved in Taunton, Huntingtown, and Walnut Tree Hill districts. The resolution calls for work to be done for the sum of $15,000. Some objection was raised at the meeting by Dodgingtown residents because they obtained no share of the money.

April 28, 1910

George A. Barnum, whose home is in Dodgingtown, but who is now living in Bethel, where he is in business, had a short but exciting runaway on Milwaukee avenue, Bethel, one day of last week. The horse got one leg over the cross piece which unites the shafts. This frightened the horse so that it broke into a run. Mr Barnum was able to turn it into the yard of Frank Edwards, where the horse fell. The driver was uninjured and beyond skinning the leg of the horse and breaking the shafts, no damage was done.

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The home of George E. Read in Dodgingtown had a narrow escape from being burned to the ground, last week Thursday night. About 2:30 in the morning, Miss Frances Shepard was awakened by her father coughing and arose to get him some medicine, when she noticed it looked very light and going to the window discovered flames coming from the roof of the ell part of Mr Read’s house. She called up Mr Read’s people by telephone, who knew nothing about their house being on fire. She quickly spread the alarm and in a short time a number of neighbors were on hand and formed a bucket brigade.

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Gray’s Plain: The place formerly owned by William H. Thickett was recently sold to Mr Shiebel of New York and he has moved his family here. Mr Shiebel had the honor of being the oldest field musician of the state of New York, having been 38 years in the 71st regiment. Five of the family are musicians playing different instruments.

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President W.S. Paddock of and trustees of the Putnam County Savings bank of Brewster, N.Y., paid a visit to the new building of the Newtown Savings bank, Wednesday, and were shown about the new building by Treasurer Nettleton. The Putnam County bank is contemplating the erection of a building of their own, and were greatly pleased with the Newtown bank building. They came by auto.

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