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William F. Peetz, Cashier
of Torrington fourteen years and was assistant cashier. He is treasurer of St. James' parish, the Win-ted Rotary Club and the Litchfield County Anto- mobile Club.
The bank has been located in the Winsted Real Estate Co.'s block at
Frank D. Hallett. President
68 Main Street for nearly the whole time since it was organized. It has always been carefully managed by men of sound judgment and marked ability. The statement of June 29. 1935, shows the capital to be $100.000 and the sm- plus and undivided profits $43.067.62.
The present officers are: President. Frank D. Hallett : vice-president. Jos- eph A. Norton; cashier. William F. Peetz; directors, Frank D. Hallett. Joseph A. Norton, Robert E. Gaylord, Frederic C. Strong. Dwight B. Tiffany and Charles P. Hallett.
Edward R. Beckley, Contractor
EDWARD R. BECKLEY, of 19 Perkins Street, contractor and builder, has a record of having erected thirty-five houses, twenty cottages and many other buildings in town during lis more than forty-six years' residence here besides building and remodelling sonie of the finest residences in Cole- brook.
Mr. Beckley came to Winsted April 1. 1889, and learned the carpenter trade of Henry M. Sweet and after six years began as a contractor. Many of the substantial residences and other build- ings of Winsted are monuments to his craftsmanship, giving employment to a large number of men. He followed contracting for twenty-seven years and then confined himself to jobbing for a time and recently has been taking contracts again, keeping a force of car- penters steadily at work.
Mr. Beckley has served as selectman of the town for twelve years. First in 1913 as first selectman under the old forth of government, then as a member
of the board for ten years under the present charter from 1915 to 1925, serv- ing as chairman two years. In 1931 he was elected a selectman again. serv- ing until he resigned.
Mr. Beekley is a veteran Mason. having been a member of St. Andrews Lodge. No. 64. over twenty-five years. and is a member of Magnolia Chap- ter. No. 16. Order of Eastern Star. Ile has been a member of Clifton Lodge. No. 30. of Odd Fellows for thirty-six years and is a member of Bidwell En- campment and Cry-tal Rebekah Lodge. I. O. O. F. Hle has been a member of the Methodist church fifty-six years. He is a man of much energy and en- terprise and has always taken a great deal of interest in civic affairs.
John J. Simons, Painter
THE well-known painter and deco- rator, John J. Simons, at 449 Main Street, is occupying his third store in a row, having started business in 1921 with Jacob Needles as Needles & Si- mons a few doors below, taking over the business in 1922, then moving to the next store and finally to the pres- ent location in Union hall block, for- merly G. A. R. hall building.
Mr. Simons established a reputation years ago as an expert house painter and decorator and he carries the latest designs in wall papers, famous Dupont paints. varnishes, enamels. and duco and has the Binks spraying outfit for spraying automobiles, houses, etc. He started as a painter in 1896, working for Ralph Barnard for a year and then twenty-one years for William H. Kil- mer and son, George W. Kilmer. so that as a painter his record covers thirty-nine years. He has employed as high as fifteen men.
Mr. Simons is the son of a Civil War veteran and is a veteran of two wars. He served as sergeant in Com- pany M. Third Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. in the Spanish-American War. He was supply and mess ser- geant of Compnay M. First Connecti- ent Infantry. in the Mexican border campaign in 1916 and enlisted for the World War but was not accepted when his company was transferred to the 202nd United States Infantry, owing to his age.
Mr. Simons is a trustee and past president for three years of the Win- sted erie of Order of Eagles and while he was president the aerie raised $2,500 for charity in Winsted.
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Cornelio Motor Sales Company
Litchfield County Distributor of the Oldsmobile-266 Main Street
FOR push and enterprise it would be hard to beat Carmine Cornelio. proprietor of the Cornelio Motor Sales Co., whose large and handsome garage is located at 266 Main Street. Starting in 1925 with a gasoline filling station and small line of accessories and tires. in ten years Mr. Cornelio has one of the finest and largest garages in Win- sted and has completely transformed that section of Main Street. adding greatly to its appearance and attrac- tiveness.
Mr. Cornelio is the distributor in Litchfield County of the Oldsmobile. sixes and eights, which is described as "the car that has everything." inelnd- ing a solid steel "turret-top" body by Fisher. knee-action wheels. ride stabi- lizer. super-hydraulic brakes. center control steering. syncro-mesh all-silent shifting and Fisher no-draft ventila- tion-a big and beautiful ear in every respect and a true style lender. There are seven models each in sixes and eights. To show his success in sales- manship. Mr. Cornelio received the Oldsmobile State prize for three years and won the national contest prize in
Carmine Cornelio, Proprietor
1929. Ile has recently opened another sales and service station on Maiden Lane in Torrington.
It is only a few men in Winsted who have streets named for them. Mr. Cornelio came here from Floridia. Italy, in 1903 and for five years work- ed in the factories and with pick and shovel. In 1908, with his brother Se- bastian, he went into the mason con-
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Cornelio Motor Sales Company's Garage
tracting business and bought a lot next west of the famous creek which for- merly divided Winsted and West Win- sted and the First and Fourth school districts and opened up Cornelio ave- nie. building two granite blocks and five houses and garages.
In 1927 he built the first section of his garage at the present location and four years later donbled the size and put on the new plate glass front with ornamental brick. This building is ninety by 100 feet. of heavy field stone. brick and steel construction that would delight the heart of any garage man. Here Mr. Cornelio has his show room and service station which is in charge of Angelo Garafalo. a first class antomobile mechanic.
Mr. Cornelio is a past president of the Garibaldi Society and the Italian- American Republican Club and was a member of the Republican town com- mittee. He is one of the large tax- navers in Winsted and takes a keen interest in public affairs.
Highland Lake .
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shane and general appearance or great diminution of its size from erosion of its outlets. The easterly shore present- many enchanting vistas of sylvan and laenstrine beauty. the leafy woods which shade the shore. 'with their green faces fixed upon the flood." sweeping away with unbroken lines over verdant slopes to the high som- mits which bound the horizon. The whole district is Archean-Azoic. The few fossiliferons specimens found had manifestly been transported by ice. The hard rock is granite and the hills are crowned by the beautiful rounded summits usually found with granite formation. Glacial scratchings and pol- ishings are occasionally observed and
boulders of enormous size have been deposited upon the loftiest hilltops."
Boyd's Annals says: "The flint ar- row-head is occasionally found on the intervale lands. and in considerable numbers along the south shores of Long (Highland) Lake, together with some other stone implements indicating a resort there for fishing and hunting. There was also a cleared spot around a copions spring of water on the east shore of the lake on land of Deacon Joseph W. Hurlbut where numerons arrowheads have been found."
The late Charles Williams also had a fine collection of Indian relies he had picked up around Highland Lake. IJe told the writer he had found Indian arrowheads under nearly every stone he overturned in the field at the south end of the lake.
Dickerman's Grocery Store
DICKERMAN'S Grocery Store at 765 Main Street. corner of Munro Street, which was opened May 18 by Donald L. Dickerman is meeting with marked success and filling a public need because it is conveniently located. is up-to-date in its appointments. car- ries a choice stock and he sells at chain store prices. Mr. Dickerman carries the Roval Scarlet groceries. cold meats. delicatessen. fresh fruits and vegetables and Hood's ice cream in all flavors.
The history of this business loca- tion is interesting becanse three other stores had their beginnings here since the time when Clifford E. Bristol hired a room in the old Alphonse Spring residence about twenty-five years ago and built up a successful cash grocery and meat business and it has been a popular corner grocery ever since. Mr. Dickerman would be pleased to serve you.
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Litchfield County Hospital
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George HI. Alford. Mrs. Ruth 1. Adkins. Rollin D. Baldwin, Wheelock T. Batcheller, Isaac W. Brooks (Tor- rington). Elliott B. Bronson. George W. Brown. M. D .. Mrs. Mary A. Baird. Caleb J. Camp. Joseph N. Cowles ( Nor- folk). Lorrin A. Cooke. George M. Carrington. Arthur L. Clark. John JJ. Carroll. Mrs. Julia V. Clark. Mrs. Loretta P. Carter. Miss Ella (. Colt. Joseph B. Eldridge (Norfolk). Mrs. Mary E. Fenn. Angustus HI. Fenn. Henry Gay. Edward B. Gaylord. John Hinsdale. James P. Glynn. Rufus E. Holmes. Charles B. Hallett. William F. Hurlburt. Rev. . Fr. Alexander M. Hickey. Samuel A. Herman. William S. Hulbert. M.D .. Salmon G. Howd. M. D., Charles S. Jopp. Frederick A. Lucas (Goshen), B. Frank Marsh. Ed- ward Manchester. Lyman R. Norton. Mrs. Maria L. Norton. Miss Annie F. Norton, Benjamin W. Pettibone. En- gene Potter. Edward L. Pratt. M. D. Mrs. Ellen M. Phelps. Mrs. Mary J. Persons. Harvey L. Roberts. Alberto M. Roraback (North Canaan). Wil- liam B. Rudd (Salisbury). George S. Rowe, William S. Richards. M. D .. Nathaniel B. Stevens. Robert R. Smith (New Hartford), Jay E. Spaulding. David Strong. Lester C. Strong. Mrs. Juliette A. Strong. Mrs. Emily G. Steele. Leverett W. Tiffany, Marvin H. Tanner. Isaac B. Woodruff. Ed- ward P. Wilcox. Edward H. Welch. M. D., Dwight Warren. M. D .. Mrs. Eliza P. Wetmore. Miss Mary P. Hins- dale.
Soon after the first appropriation was granted. a committee consisting of Drs. Salmon G. Howd. Edward L. Pratt and William S. Hulbert visited a number of fine hospitals to get ad- vanced ideas in hospital architecture. Plans were secured and the ground broken for the present hospital on the Batcheller site. July 18. 1900.
The hospital was dedicated Janu- arv 29. 1902. The first patient was ad- mitted five days later and was the only patient for five days. The first presi- dent was Dr. Edward H. Welch of the famous family of Welch physicians and surgeons, a consin of Dr. William H. Welch. the distinguished patholo- gist. The first superintendent was Miss Gertrude Lewis of Hartford. The first year there were 159 patients from 'twenty-one towns. including twenty- " four state beneficiaries. The number of patients treated last year was 1.008 and the average number for the past ten years 1.138. the largest mimber being in 1929 when there were 1.291. the slight decrease being due no doubt to the new hospitals in Torrington and Canaan.
Three years after the hospital was
opened the construction of another building for an isolation ward was be- gun and opened June 1. 1906. the gift of Col. Wheelock T. Batcheller, a son of Mrs. Julia Batcheller and one of the first to become interested in a hospital for Winsted. A few years ago thi- building was remodelled into a modern maternity ward.
In 1909 the General Assembly ap- propriated $15.000 for a home for the nurses and this was built in 1911 faring Spencer street. This home was en- larged several years later by an addi- tion in the rear. Varions other im- provements have been made from time to time.
One of the large gifts to the hos- pital was made by William H. Batch- eller. another son of Mrs. JJulia Batch- eller. who established the Wheelock Thayer fund. the income of which he restricted to the care and improvement of the hospital grounds which were landscaped during his lifetime. The fund last year totalled $22.294.94.
The hospital has received a great timber of gifts. small and large. in- dicating in a measure the appreciation of the public in the splendid service it has been rendering. New additions to the invested funds have been re- ceived from time to time. At present there are fifty-four of these funds. to- taling at the end of the last fiscal year $530.270.28. Like most institutions of its kind, increased demands and higher costs have made increased financial burdens. The hospital has been forth- nate in having trustees and executives of marked business ability who have labored untiringly in its behalf.
An adjunct of the hospital which has rendered invaluable service during all the years is the Woman's Auxiliary. co-operating in every way possible to supply the wants that are many and constant in operating an institution of this kind. The extent of the faithful service rendered by these women can- rot be measured except to say they have contributed very largely to the "necess of the hospital. The present officers are :
President. Manrice F. Fitzgerald : Vice-President. Albert D. Hart : Secre- fary. Inther L. Chase: Treasurer. Wil- liam II. Phelps.
Directors: Irving C. Valentine. Ed- ward B. Gaylord. William H. Phelps. Joseph A. Norton. Luther L. Chase. Homer I. Huntington. J. Albert Smith. D. Fletcher Alvord. Marvin IT. Tan- ner. Edward R. Holmes. Abner C. Bris- tol. Edward L. Pratt. M.D .. Engene Van Why. Maurice F. Fitzgerald. Al- bert D. Hart.
Executive Committee: D. Fletcher Alvord. Albert D. Hart, Engene Van Why.
Trustees of Permanent Funds: Wil- liam II. Phelps. Joseph A. Norton. Edward B. Gaylord.
Attending Staff : Maurice J. Reidy. M.D .. F.A.C.S .: Rov V. Sanderson. M.D .: Chester F. English. M.D .: D - ald W. Herman, M.D .: James J. Der- win. M.D.
Roentgenologist : Ralph T. Ogden. M.D., Ilart ford.
Pathologist : Louis P. Hasting .. M.D .. Hartford.
Administration : Superintendent. Mande E. Wise. R.N .: Night Super- visor. Kathryn E. Sherman. R.N .: Su- nervisors of Departments. Sarah J. Kunselman. R.N .. Hazel F. Church. R.N .. Lula A. Clark. R.N .: Technician. Elizabeth Crowder: General Duty Nurses. fifteen.
The officers of the Woman's Auxili- ery are as follows:
President. Mrs. Charles L. Alvord : Vice-Presidents. first. Mrs. E. B. Gav- lord. second. Mrs. D. D. Reidv : Secre- tarv. Mrs. J. H. Alvord: Treasurer. Mrs. L. C. Strong: Recorder. Mrs. E. R. Kelsey.
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alarm system. In 1925 the system was greatly improved and made so that fire alarms could be rung in by au operator at the telephone office. The number of the firm alarm boxes has been increased to forty-three. The fire hydrants all have standard thread couplings. The department bas been maintained at a high state of effciency in every particular.
Donald S. McPherson was appoint - ed chief engineer in the fall of 1927. He bad been acting chief for about two vears. He succeeded the late Charles Stone. who had been chief thirty years and a member of the department fifty vears.
In May. 1935. the number of as- sistant engineers was increased from four to five. They are: Lewis C. Ilill. C. Wesley Winslow. John Doherty. William L. Kelley and Alf O. Lund- berg. The foremen and assistants are : No. 1. Frank Blass, foreman, Bernard Hahn. James Dudley. assistants: X ). 2. Arthur L. Cooney. foreman. Edward Dardis. JJames Dardis. assistants: No. 3. Francis O'Neil. foreman. Clare T. Whitman. Richard Drake. assistants: No. 4. Walter Dautrich. foreman. George Cronnelly. Elwood Beche. as- sistants: Hook & Ladder Co .. Fon- rose Bushnell. foreman. William Gag- non. Patrick Mahoney. assistants. Jacob Needles is superintendent of the fire alarm system.
William Barnes of Wetmore Ave- nne. nearly ninety years old. is the old- est active fireman in the state. He has been a fireman forty-three years.
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Morris H. Dolinsky
Proprietor of Standard Cycle & Auto Supply Company
AS a record for achievement in this land of opportunity few in this part of Connecticut can match that of Morris H. Dolinsky, proprietor of the Standard Cycle & Auto Supply Com- pany. In spite of an accident which nearly cost him his life and put him out of business for about a year. cans- ing him to make a new start, and in spite of the business depression, with grit and determination, Mr. Dolinsky has forged ahead until today he has built up a very large business in the distribution of gasoline, lubricating and fuel oils, in super-automobile service and as a heating engineer. He is the owner of a large buik oil and gasoline station, a fleet of fifteen tank and serv- ice trucks and automobiles, of six gaso- line stations, the lessee of ten others. and he supplies twenty-five more deal- ers with gas and oils, and gives eni- ployment to between twenty-five and thirty hands the year around. Of his service station on Rowley Street. repre. sentatives of the Tide Water Oil C'o .. who visited Winsted recently. said there was not a nicer super-service station in New England. And this
Morris II. Dolinsky
great business has all been built up in less than twenty years.
Mr. Doliusky began business Sep- tember, 1915, with David Goldich as a partner, buying out the Indian Agency Co., dealers in motorcycles and bicy-
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cles, located in a barn on South Main Street which had been conducted by Chester Cargill, who was killed in an accident. A year later Mr. Dolinsky bought out Mr. Goldich's interest and moved to the corner of Main Street and Cornelio Avenue. In October, 1917, he purchased Charles Pustinger's tire and vulcanizing shop at the location at Main and Rowley Streets and adopted the present name, having thus branch- ed ont into the automobile field.
During the World War, Mr. Do- linsky was employed in making brass buckles for gas masks in the shop he now owns on Rowley Street, working for Mr. Goldich and John O'Brien from + A. M. to 1 P. M., his wife con- dueting his store during the mornings, selling bieycle and automobile tires and accessories. Francis Whitman. his present heating engineer, first entered his employ on part time during this period.
.In June, 1921, Mr. Dolinsky met with a motorcycle accident in Torring- ton while out on a "gypsy tour . which laid him up nearly a year, spending six months in hospitals. However, his business continued to grow. In 1923 he bought the building on the Rowley Street corner which had previously been an undertaking room and grocery store and was formerly considered one of the poorest business locations in Winsted. This same year he branched out into the wholesale gasoline and oil business with a storage tank on Willow Street and a 300-gallon model T Ford tank truck.
Today Mr. Dolinsky has six large tanks with a capacity of 75,000 gallons. seven tank trucks with a capacity rang- ing from 400 to 2.250 gallons each. Representing the Tide Water Oil Co .. his territory was extended from Win- sted. New Hartford and Norfolk to Canaan and in 1929, when the Clear Oil Co. sold out in Torrington, he was given that field. necessitating a large expansion in equipment and storage capacity. Meantime, in 1927, he bought the old Goodwin & Kintz plant on
Rowley street and has gradually re- built it to its present fine proportions, first occupying it in 1929.
That year Mr. Dolinsky expanded again by selling fuel oil and the next year he began installing range and power oil burners, and has about 700 range and nearly 100 power burners, including the General Electric, Braden and more recently the Quiet May. It was only a step further to make com- plete heating installations which he has been doing since 1933. His engi- neers, Francis Whitman and Albert Russell, have taken advanced engineer- ing courses in heating and air condi- tioning at the factories. They have made some of the finest heating in- stallations in the city as the owners are glad to testify.
In 1920, Mr. Dolinsky formed a partnership with his brother, Benja- min, in the trucking business under the name of Dolinsky Brothers, starting with an old Broekway truck and grad- ually increasing the number, hanting lummer, railroad ties and telephone poles. Later they purchased John Avery & Son's trucks and were oper- ating fourteen trucks when the depres- sion came on, hitting the saw mills and railroads. Morris sold out his share in the business in 1934 to his brother, who now operates mostly dump trucks.
Besides his large super-service sta- tion on Rowley Street, Mr. Dolinsky has the two gasoline stations on Main and North Main Streets, a fine station in Collinsville, one in Cornwall, which he purchased in 1934, and one that was bought recently in Torrington. His gasoline and oils were first shipped in by rail and transferred into tanks but since the Tide Water Oil Co, built its bulk storage plants on the Connecticut River near Wethersfield. Mr. Dolinsky has found it more economical to hanil the products by truck. Ile now has three large tank trucks hanling gaso- line and fuel oils constantly.
In May at a large meeting of Good- year Tire and Rubber Co. representa- tives in Bridgeport one of the principal
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events was the awarding to Mr. Do- linsky a bronze placque for fifteen years of friendly relations as a Good- year representative. Only five of these have been awarded in the state.
Mr. Dolinsky is a director of the Winsted Chamber of Commerce. a member of the Rotary and Winsted Clubs and the lodges of the Masons. Elks and Eagles. Ile has sponsored the Tydol Stars bowling team which has made a fine record in the past few years and in 1935 represented Winsted . at the Syracuse meet.
Colt & Co., Clothing
FOR more than a generation Colt & Co.'s clothing store at 581-585 Main Street has been known to the trading publie far and near as head- quarters for men's, women's and chil- dren's ready-to-wear clothing. shoes. hats and eaps at popular prices. "Go- ing down to Colt's," or "up to Colt's." is a common phrase in Winsted, which is another way of saying the public has grown accustomed from one decade to another of trading there.
It is also another way of saying that Colt's is an up-to-date store sell- ing reliable goods in the latest styles at satisfactory prices. In other words. Colt's has built up a reputation for honest dealing which has stood the test for thirty-seven years. for it was at the time of the Spanish-American War in the month of February when Daniel Colt came up to Winsted from Derby and opened a store in Lawrence's block. opposite the Hotel Beardsley. Two years before in 1896 Chase & Norton. the phunbers, built the large block on the corner of Main Street and Sterling Place, which they uamned for the Ster- ling range they represented at the time.
Later the plumbers retired from business and Colt & Co. took the cor- ner store, then the next one to it and finally the third one. Mr. Colt pur- chased the block and remodelled the first floor for their large business, add- ing a women's department to the line of men's and boys' clothing and haber- dashery. The second floor was fitted up with offices and a tailor shop in connection with the store. and the up- per portion of the building has long been known as Red Men's hall.
Mr. Colt is fortunate in having two sons who are following in his foot- steps: Stanley, operating a branch store in Thomaston. and II. Spencer Colt. vice-president and director of the Chamber of Commerce, being associat- ed with his father in the Winsted store.
Early in May. Loni- Rouzi cele- brated his twenty-fifth anniversary of employment at Colt's, in charge of the men's and ladies' tailoring. Others
Daniel Colt
have had long terms as clerks. Mr. Colt has had an active part in Win- sted's development. He is a director of the Winsted Savings Bank.
Colt & Co. is a member of a buying organization with fifty other stores, having offices in New York and Bos- ton, which is an important feature in successful merchandising. A guarantee goes with every garment at this wide- a wake business house.
The Strand Theater
K EEPING pace with the larger cities. Winsted has a modern $150,000 theater with a seating ca- pacity of nearly 1.000, a large stage. splendid organ, the latest Western Electric movietone and the same pro- jection equipment as found in the larger and better theaters. The Strand theater, in the center of the city, was opened Angust 2, 1926, special atten- tion having been given by the archi- tects to the sanitation, ventilation. lighting and heating systems. The frescoing is novel and attractive and the seating excellent. Serving a popul- lation of 20,000 people within a radins of twenty towns and villages. The the- ater, which is open daily at 2:15 and 7 P'. M. has all the releases of the lead- ing producers in motion pictures, Para- mount. Warner Bros .. Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. United Artists, Fox. R. C. i. Corp. and Universal. playing every- thing that is shown in Radio City. Now York, and sometimes in advance of it.
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