200 Years Ago
We have had the pleasure of examining several portraits by Wm. Collins, Jr., a young artist, who has been pursuing his profession in Greenfield for the several weeks past. He has painted about twelve portraits during his residence here, every one of which is a perfect copy of the original. Mr. Collins is certainly an artist of genius and of great promise.
Messrs. Mills and Howe, who have established a law school at Northampton, are both favorably known to the legal profession, Mr. Mills, U.S. Senator from this state, as a counsellor of extensive practice, and Mr. Howe as an efficient Judge on the Common Pleas Bench.
100 Years Ago
Defending his six terms in the mayoralty against published charges of extravagance, Mayor W. H. Feiker, Republican candidate to succeed George B. Churchill in Congress, today branded as an untruth a recently printed assertion that President Coolidge, when mayor of this city, “had filled the municipal treasury and he (Feiker) had emptied it.”
Several college students are in Northampton this week canvassing for magazines to earn their tuition for the coming college year. Each man is equipped with credentials carrying his photograph, description, and signature.
50 Years Ago
An escapee from the Hampshire County House of Correction who had been at large for 36 hours in Northampton and was described as “possibly armed and dangerous” was arraigned yesterday in Northampton District Court. Hampshire County deputy sheriffs captured him the night before in an apartment house on Pleasant Street.
Marion E. Mendelson of 75 Dryads Green has announced that she is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for city councilor from Ward 2. Mrs. Mendelson said that in announcing her candidacy, she was also resigning from the board of directors of the Northampton League of Women Voters so as to avoid conflicting with the league’s prohibition against officers participating in partisan politics.