200 Years Ago
■Beach & Loveland inform their friends and the public that they have removed their place of business to the new building north of the courthouse in Northampton, erected particularly for their accommodation, where they will sell an extensive assortment of cabinet furniture, warranted to be as durably and elegantly made and as richly finished as can be purchased at the New York or Boston manufactories.
■The fall term of the Sanderson School in Ashfield will commence on Wednesday, the 19th of September next. The public are informed that the school will be opened under the care of a teacher qualified to instruct in the several branches taught in academies and will continue through the year.
100 Years Ago
■The hose race between Williamsburg and Haydenville, held in connection with the 150th anniversary celebration at Williamsburg, was won this morning by Williamsburg, by a margin of four-fifths of a second. Williamsburg’s time was 28 and one-fifth seconds, while Haydenville’s was 29 seconds.
■An expert engineer in textile machinery from Philadelphia has been working with Mr. Behringer and a group of assistants assembling the knitting machines at Smith’s School all the past week. Because of the great complexity of this kind of machinery, it has been impossible to get them into running condition before the opening of school.
50 Years Ago
■The new fine arts center at Smith College is under construction on Elm Street. To make room for the center a number of buildings were torn down, including Hillyer and Tryon Art Galleries, and the home of the first president of Smith, L. Clark Seelye. The center is expected to be ready next year.
■Former Northampton Mayor Durbin H. Wells, vice president of development and resources for Old Sturbridge Village, is on indefinite leave of absence due to illness. Wells, 57, who has relinquished his title at the historic village, is a former staff member of the Daily Hampshire Gazette and the Springfield Daily News.