200 Years Ago

■Nathaniel Fowle has just received and for sale next door to the post office in Northampton, a good assortment of watches and jewelry. Watches of all kinds carefully repaired and warranted.

■Strayed from the Northampton Meadows in Nov. last, two red steers, about two years old, marked with a half-penny cut underside the off ear, and a slit at the end. Whoever has got said steers and will give information to the subscriber, shall be rewarded. Enen’s Phelps, Northampton.

100 Years Ago

■Governor Coolidge, who was expected to be present at the celebration of the Pilgrim tercentenary in John M. Greene Hall tomorrow evening, has sent word that he will be unable to attend because of a previous engagement at a similar celebration in Plymouth.

■The Christmas party of the Northampton Teachers’ association, held at the high school Saturday evening, was attended by over 100 members. Each member received a small gift, with an appropriate humorous poem, from a large Christmas tree. George H. Bean entertained for over an hour with stories and readings.

50 Years Ago

■The addition to the Southampton Town Hall began as a one-story brick structure, but recently the residents voted more money to add a second story while the construction was in progress. The Police Department needed more room and other departments of the town government wished to have a more permanent meeting-place than the Town Hall offered so the addition provided the solution.

■The Northampton Institution for Savings has announced that Miss Susie Millen of Loudville Road, Easthampton, and Leon L. Bouchard of Chapel St., Northampton, were winners of giant Christmas stockings offered in connection with the Christmas Club promotion of NIS.