■A Mr. Scheffer of London has obtained a patent for a very ingenious writing instrument, adapted for the pocket, called the Penagraph, the merit of which is that it contains ink, and supplies itself while writing, for 10 or 15 hours, without the aid of an inkstand.
■New Store! John Lamb would inform the inhabitants of Northampton and its vicinity that he has taken the store next to Mr. Warner’s Tavern, where he will constantly keep on hand all sorts of Morocco leather, as cheap as can be bought in Boston or New York.
100 Years Ago
■E. Cyrus Miller of Haydenville has invited the fruit growers of Hampshire and Franklin counties to a basket picnic at his Hillside Orchards on Tuesday, Aug. 15. The main object of the meeting will be to get together and exchange reports on crop conditions and price prospects.
■Work will soon begin on a block of stores on the Dr. Roberts lot on King Street, just in the rear of the First National Bank. The Goldsteins, who run a chain of theaters, including the Plaza of this city, intend to build a fine moving picture theater on the lot.
50 Years Ago
■Sunshine has returned to Hampshire County after a week of soggy, leaden skies. Farmers were beginning to fret that their crops were getting too much rain. And it’s into the backyard pools again to make up for a lost week.
■The Solid Waste Management Committee will recommend to Mayor Dunphy and the City Council that four mini-refuse transfer stations be placed in strategic locations around the city, on a 90-day experimental basis, if a method of policing the stations can be arranged. There are two such stations now in use; one on Fair Street and the other in the Department of Public Works yard on Locust Street.