200 Years Ago
- School in Southampton! Elizabeth Strong will open a school in the chamber of the central schoolhouse in Southampton on Monday, May 8, for the instruction of young ladies in those studies usually taught in the female department of our academies.
- Proposals will be received by the Mount Holyoke Association to construct a road of sufficient width for two carriages to pass each other with safety; to commence opposite the horse-boat ferry at the base of the mountain, and wind along the north side to the gap, thence on the south side to the summit, in such a way that in no part of its course an elevation shall be gained of more than one foot in ten of its length.
100 Years Ago
- With the dedication yesterday afternoon of the new recreation building of U.S. Veterans’ hospital No. 95, at Leeds, the scope of the athletic program will be greatly broadened as a part of Uncle Sam’s method of ministering to the minds of some 430 inmates who are suffering from shellshock and other sad conditions resulting from the World war.
- The new Studebaker Big Six, which has been purchased by the fire department for the use of Chief John H. Marlow, was put into active service yesterday, having been driven for 500 miles at not more than 20 miles an hour, as provided by the contract.
50 Years Ago
- The Northampton City Council voted unanimously this week to grant Charles J. Eberlein Jr. a special exception to the city’s zoning ordinance, allowing him to build a new facility for the state Registry of Motor Vehicles on Atwood Drive, across from the Colonial Hilton Inn. Gov. Michael Dukakis, however, has said that he will not permit the registry to move out of the center of the city.
- Easthampton will lose its tiny post office in Mt. Tom, if the decision of Springfield postal officials to close it is approved by the regional office in New York City and the central office in Washington, D.C. Mt. Tom, a community of 135 people, has had its own post office since 1876.