200 Years Ago
- E. C. Hunt has taken a room under J. Smith’s bookstore, next door to Oliver Warner’s Coffee House, where he intends to keep constantly on hand for sale as great a variety of fresh and salt meats as can be found in this vicinity. While he gratefully tenders his thanks to his customers for past favors, he respectfully solicits the continuance of their patronage.
- We learn that the survey of the route for the Hampshire and Hampden Canal was commenced at the Connecticut line on Monday morning last. Engineer, Mr. Hurd, from the state of New York; assistant, Mr. Smith, of Amherst.
100 Years Ago
- Florence residents will be interested to learn that a former Florence girl, Miss Ada Wing, now travelling in vaudeville under the name of Ada Lee, will be seen at the Calvin tonight with her partner, George Holly, in an act entitled, “The New Floorwalker.”
- Apples were much in evidence at the community market this morning in barrels and boxes, and in the form of cider. Winter vegetables and celery were also for sale but were greatly outnumbered and over-shadowed by the extensive background of apples.
50 Years Ago
- Elementary School Guidance Counselor William C. Herdiech last night recommended to a committee that is studying the Academically Talented (AT) program in Northampton that it be eliminated in favor of a system that would reach more students. Herdiech said that the AT program, while a good idea when it was established in 1967, currently does not serve the needs of a large number of bright students in the Northampton schools.
- A lucky Easthampton man collected $50,000 in state lottery winnings last week at an awards ceremony in Braintree. Eugene Routhier, 47, of 9 Summer St., bought the winning ticket at Ed’s Foodland on Union Street.