■Died in Northampton, on the 26th Dec. last, the Hon. Ebenezer Hunt, M.D., aged 76. Perhaps there was never a more tender or attentive physician than Doct. Hunt, or one who realized more impressively the importance of his office; and there have been but few more skillful, or more extensively useful.
■The members of the Northampton Charitable Society are hereby notified that their annual meeting for choice of officers, etc., will be holden at the house of Theodore Lyman on Wednesday evening, January 10, 1821, at 7 o’clock. – D. S. Whitney, Secretary.
■The Polish Naturalization Club held a New Year’s party at its quarters on Pleasant Street Friday evening, with an attendance of about 80 couples. Dinner was served at midnight, and dancing was enjoyed until 6 a.m.
■Dr. Ralph E. Rindfusz, the newly elected superintendent of the Edwards Church School, assumed his duties yesterday, Archie T. Phillips retiring after several years’ faithful and efficient service.
■The 91st Congress enacted many landmark laws, including extending for five years a civil rights law designed to protect voting rights of Negroes and, for the first time, lowering to 18 years the age of eligibility to vote in elections for federal office.
■A bandit allegedly held the owner of Dickinson’s Drug Store in Northampton at knife-point and forced him to hand over a large quantity of narcotics Saturday night, police said today. Morris Bond, who was working in the store at the time, told police a man wearing a sweater, dark pants and a red, white and blue ski mask, entered the store and said he wanted something for a hernia he received while skiing. The man pulled out a knife and demanded “the cocaine.”