200 Years Ago
- Mr. White respectfully announces to the ladies and gentlemen of Northampton and its vicinity that he will, this day, open a school in the Masonic Hall, where dancing will be taught in the most approved modern style. Hours of instruction — for ladies, from 2 to 5 o’clock; for gentlemen, from 6 to 9 o’clock. Instruction per quarter, $4.
- A tavern stand is for sale, as pleasant a situation as there is between Albany and Boston, for the innholder, merchant, or a gentleman’s country seat. It is on the Albany road, 1 ? miles from Northampton Court House. It was formerly occupied by Oliver Warner and has been a public house ever since.
100 Years Ago
- The remodeled church building of the First Methodist Episcopal parish of Northampton was formally rededicated by Bishop William F. Anderson of the Boston area of the Methodist Episcopal Church at a fellowship service held in the auditorium of the church yesterday afternoon.
- It will be a dry Christmas for James W. Kehoe, the sage of Mt. Tom and a regular customer for justice in the district court. He appeared in court this morning for the 89th time and was sentenced to serve three months in the house of correction. The old, suspended sentences were affirmed, and James must serve one year and seven months before he is again at liberty.
50 Years Ago
- A former resident of Northampton has been a key figure in the state’s automobile insurance controversy recently. William O. Bailey, a graduate of Northampton High School in 1944, is now an executive with the Aetna Casualty and Surety Co., in Hartford. He played a major role in the company’s decision to continue writing automobile insurance in Massachusetts, the firm says.
- An undetermined amount of fuel oil spilled into Deer Brook in Look Park and into the Mill River yesterday morning after a delivery at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Northampton. A combination of circumstances, including delivery into a wrong tank, led to the spill, which was termed substantial.