200 Years Ago
- Notice is hereby given that Nathan Felton has been appointed guardian of John Hinds, a tippler, of Prescott, in the county of Hampshire, and has taken upon himself that trust, by giving bonds as the law directs. All persons having demands upon the estate of the said Hinds are required to exhibit the same.
- On Tuesday, July 9, Franklin County was visited with a severe storm. We learn that it was very violent at the meeting house in Conway, where the people had assembled to attend the funeral of E. Billings, Esq. The terrific noise of the wind, hail and broken glass was accompanied with incessant flashes of lightning and tremendous peals of thunder.
100 Years Ago
- It will be of interest to Northampton friends to learn that Dr. and Mrs. Howard A. Bridgman, formerly of Northampton, are to open their new home in Shirley Center this fall to a limited number of boys. Dr. Bridgman is well known because of his relationship with Lawrence Academy, of which he was principal for three years.
- Dr. Frank E. Dow, president of the Kiwanis Club, was pleasantly surprised by more than two score of his fellow clubmates at a special luncheon party tendered him in Boyden s this noon, upon the occasion of his return to Northampton from three months professional and musical study in European capitals.
50 Years Ago
- A machinist who has lost eight months of work in the past two years because of illness came up a winner this week in the Massachusetts State Lottery s Spell-A-Word drawing. Alex Szewczyk of Edwards Square, a turret lathe operator who has worked for Kollmorgen Corp. for almost 23 years, spelled the word raiding to win $7,000.
- The City Art Guild, Inc., will move from its present location in the basement of the Unitarian Church to 160 Main St. in early September, when the church s school classes begin again. The move to seven rooms on the second and third floors above Foster-Farrar Co. will be completed by Sept. 12, the guild s director, David Bond, said.