The Board of Trustees of the Cyrenius H. Booth Library will be having a regular meeting on Tuesday, November 13, beginning at 8 pm in the library. The major agenda item will be discussion of the library expansion plans and their eventual formal presentation to the selectmen which is planned for November 26 and then to the council on December 5. While there has been some speculation that the trustees might be considering revamping their plans for the expansion to make it smaller and less expensive, trustee Merlin Fisk says this is not so.

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The Bridgeport Hydraulic Company has applied to the state’s Division of Public Utility Control, department of Business Regulation, to sell 38 acres of land in four separate parcels which it owns in Newtown. Based on independent appraisals made of the land, according to Jerry Loiselle, manager of corporate affairs for the Bridgeport Hydraulic Company (BHC), the company is asking for DPUC approval of offering prices totaling $160,000.

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A recanvass of votes cast for Legislative Council in district one, and for Planning & Zoning Commission alternates and alternates to the Zoning Board of Appeals will automatically take place due to the closeness of the votes, Town Clerk Mae Schmidle said Wednesday night.

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The Historic District Study Committee has scheduled a public information meeting for Tuesday, November 13, 7:30 pm in the Alexandria Room of Edmond Town Hall. All Borough residents who own property within the proposed historic zone are urged to attend the meeting as well as all town residents interested in knowing more about the establishment of such a district.

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“It was the biggest crowd I’ve ever been in,” recalled Diane Cleary with awe. “People were cheering. It was amazing. I’ve never seen a reception like that.” Diane, a 21-year-old Newtown resident, was one of the few who entered a St Rose “lottery” to receive tickets to the Mass said by Pope John Paul II at Yankee Stadium in New York last month. “It was a once in a lifetime experience,” she said. “Something I can tell my children about.”

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The Board of Trustees of the Cyrenius H. Booth Library and the Citizens’ Library Improvement Committee are planning an open house at the library on Sunday, November 18, at 2 pm. Invited to attend are the Board of Selectmen, the Legislative Council members, and the general public.

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The half-time show to be presented at the Brookfield-Newtown football game this Saturday will be the highlight of “Band Booster Day,” a day set aside to call attention to the High School marching band at all the home football games. Attractive Band Booster buttons will be worn by members of the band and enthusiastic supporters of the musical unit’s efforts this past season.

NOVEMBER 12, 1954

As is the custom prior to the Christmas holidays, Newtown civic and social groups are planning to send greetings to local servicemen and women who are serving in various branches of the armed forces at home and abroad.

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At an executive board meeting of the Community Music Association on November 5, Roy F. Byrne, president, announced that for the third consecutive year plans were being made for the Newtown children to attend the Young Peoples Concerts under the auspices of the Danbury Orchestral Society.

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It is expected that Jerry Goosman of Huntingtown will be named temporary substitute rural carrier on the new RFD 3, which will begin on November 16, by the Newtown Post Office to permit the beginning of service on the new route on the scheduled date.

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A brief meeting and tea which was held last Sunday afternoon, November 7, at the Cyrenius H. Booth Library, attended by library officials and approximately 50 other interested persons, marked the opening of the Julia E.C. Brush Genealogical Collection for public reference use. The group of over 900 volumes, called “an outstanding small collection” by Raymond B. Fosdick, vice president of the library’s Board of Trustees, is expected to enjoy extensive use by genealogists for its wealth of family and historical data on Connecticut in particular.

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Veterans of town and the clergy joined in a ceremony in honor of the war dead at 11 o’clock this Thursday morning at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at the head of Main Street. The brief observance was conducted by Charles Howard Peck, Sr and Jr Post 308, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary with Raymond L. Pease Post 163, American Legion, participating. This was the first occasion for the town to celebrate the anniversary of the armistice signed by the Allied and German forces on November 11, 1918, ending World War I, as Veterans Day instead of Armistice Day. First Selectman A. Fenn Dickinson read a proclamation to the gathering which called attention to the act of Congress which changes Armistice Day, November 11 of each year, to Veterans Day, and officially declared Thursday, November 11, 1954 to be Veterans Day. The change has not as yet been made by the state of Connecticut.

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Sports followers can expect a brand of basketball which has never been seen in town before when the “All-American Red Heads — world’s champion professional girls basketball team,” meets the Newtown Athletic Club men’s team on Edmond Town Hall court on Sunday evening, November 28, at 8:30.

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The next monthly meeting of the Newtown League of Women Voters is an open meeting with all townspeople cordially invited. It will take place on Tuesday evening, November 16, at 8 o’clock at the Cyrenius H. Booth Library with Mrs William H. Knox, program chairman. Newtown’s Board of Selectmen, made up of First Selectman A. Fenn Dickinson, Anthony Amaral and Edward E. Knapp, has been invited to the meeting, and Mr Dickinson is expected to speak on the advantages of the one-man assessor as opposed to the three-man board, which latter method currently prevails in Newtown.

NOVEMBER 8, 1929

The exterior of the new Edmond Town Hall, the magnificent gift of Miss Mary E. Hawley to the town of Newtown, is now practically completed and the fine and beautiful lines of this building are now beginning to appear.

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At the regular monthly teachers’ meeting at the Hawley School on Friday, November 2, Miss Wenderott of the Bridgeport Branch of the Red Cross, spoke of the Junior Red Cross organization.

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The Young People’s Fellowship of Trinity and St John’s held a very happy evening party on Saturday, November 2, at St John’s Guild House.

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Thirteen hens were stolen from the coop of Mrs Thomas F. Cavanaugh, who lives in the house opposite the freight station Monday night.

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On Thursday evening the young people of Taunton district held a very pleasant Halloween party at the residence of Mr and Mrs Charles Tinto.

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There was a very enjoyable Halloween party Friday night at the Taunton School house given by Miss Alice Carmody, the teacher. A number of the parents were present.

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Over 250 people were present on Friday evening for the opening of Sunset Tavern by Mr and Mrs Clarence B. Naramore. The tavern was most artistically decorated with huge vases of yellow chrysanthemums, red berries, bittersweet, and palms.

NOVEMBER 11, 1904

Eugene M. Botsford and A.B. Goodsell were the nominees for representative on the prohibition ticket.

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Smith Lyon of Northville, who has carried on a carriage repair shop and run a farm for many years, has bought the Mary A. Bradley place in Hanover and will remove to Newtown soon. For the last year or so Mr Lyon has been in the employ of Pratt & Hawley at New Milford, driving to and from his Northville home. He has sold his farm in Northville.

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Election Results — A Roosevelt sweep. Has 343 Electoral votes.

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Dr W.C. Wile, who has been in Honolulu, will sail for home on November 16.

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C. Roy Platt met with quite a painful accident the other day. While handling one of the miniature pistols, out lately, it was discharged, a small piece of wadding or something of the kind penetrating one finger. After a few days, it began to pain him badly, and he was obliged to consult Dr Schuyler. He came home, Saturday night, remaining till Tuesday to cast his vote.

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F.J. Naramore closed his house in the Street last week, and will spend the winter at his place on Mt Pleasant. Mr and Mrs George H. Olston will keep house for him.

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A jolly party gathered at the Parsons mansion Saturday evening November 5. Invitations had been sent out a week before inviting guests to a party given by Miss Parsons to her sister Pearl, it being Miss Pearl’s 17th birthday.