200 Years Ago
- The Aetna Insurance Company, having a capital of $200,000, well secured, offer to insure buildings, furniture, goods, wares and merchandise, against loss or damage by fire at the most reasonable rates. — Bates & Wells, agents, Northampton.
- I.C. Bates offers for sale all the timber and wood upon his Mt. Tom farm, such of it as will be fit for staves, shipbuilding, or sawing, by the tree, the residue by the cord, and in lots such as purchasers may wish; the whole to be taken from the land during the present and the next winter, or in case the whole can be sold to an individual or company, the winter after.
100 Years Ago
- In our issue of Jan. 2, we said that the Hampshire County Trust company of Northampton had just chosen Miss Ruth D. Stockwell as manager of its service department, thus making her the first woman chosen as a bank officer in Hampshire County. This was in error. The Florence Savings Bank had a woman treasurer as early as 1880, and, as a matter of fact, has had three women treasurers during the period from 1880 to 1918.
- Conrad Tebo, popular local baritone, who is now a student at the Oscar Saenger studio in New York City, will sing over the radio from Station WJZ at New York, beginning at 10 o’clock tonight. Mr. Tebo will render a fifteen-minute program of popular vocal selections.
50 Years Ago
- The Northampton Planning Board last night eliminated two senior planning positions from its budget request for fiscal year 1977, reducing the budget by $21,000 to approximately $37,000. On Dec. 10, the board had approved a budget proposal of some $58,000 drafted by Planning Director York Phillips.
- A total of 41 floats and 26 bands representing all 21 communities in Hampshire County have signed up to participate in the Bicentennial Militia Men’s Parade to take place on Sunday, June 13, in Northampton. The parade will kick off the celebration of America’s 200th anniversary here in Hampshire County.