200 Years Ago
- Died in Northampton on Sunday, the 5th, after a short but painful illness, Frederic Wilder, instructor in mathematics in the School on Round Hill, aged 22 years. To a highly gifted mind, the deceased added habits of industry and a strong desire of serving the best interests of society.
- Notice! My wife, Sophia Champlin, having left my bed and board, I hereby forbid all persons harboring or trusting her on my account, for I shall pay no debts of her contracting. James Champlin, Belchertown.
100 Years Ago
- John Coolidge, son of the President, was a guest at the Wesleyan junior prom at Middletown, Ct., over the weekend. With several fraternity brothers of Phi Gamma Delta, young Coolidge was entertained at the Wesleyan chapter of the fraternity.
- The Community Sports toboggan slide on Hospital Hill will be opened to the public tomorrow night. The slide is in excellent condition, the troughs have almost been completed, and all that remains to be done before the opening is to install the necessary lighting system over the structure and its runways.
50 Years Ago
- After over 60 years as librarian of the Frederick Sargent Huntington Library in Worthington, Arthur G. Capen stamped his last book there Saturday. Born in Worthington 94 years ago, Capen has lived in town all of his life, except for a year in Texas and 10 years in Enfield, a town now flooded by the Quabbin Reservoir.
- Preliminary plans are being made to transfer the Registry of Motor Vehicles from its current site at 31 Center St. to Atwood Drive, across from the Colonial Hilton Inn. The lease is currently being prepared for the site, said Ted Gunaris, chief deputy of the Registry of Motor Vehicles in Boston.