Jim Bridgman

200 Years Ago

  • New Spring Millinery — Misses S. & C. Osborn have received their usual supply of millinery and will be happy to wait on those that will favor them with their calls. Ladies may be favored with any fashionable hats, caps, bonnets, fancy goods, flowers, curls, etc. Work done on short notice. Northampton.
  • Look at this! G. Washington Fish respectfully informs the inhabitants of Northampton that he will make to order oil cloth carpeting, in imitation of Brussels, etc., made to fit rooms, halls, and every other place wherein oil cloth can be put in use. Those persons who feel disposed to purchase any of the above articles will please leave their order soon, if they want their carpets the present season, as it takes from three to six months for a carpet to become completely dry.

100 Years Ago

  • Ronald Moquinn of Northampton is appearing as the featured specialty dancer with “Charlie Kerr and His Gang” in a new revue, “The Carnival of Jazz,” now on the Stanley circuit of picture houses. Mr. Moquinn is playing nightly at the “Piccadilly,” Philadelphia’s newest cabaret.
  • Work is nearing completion on the excavation for the eight-room addition to the Bridge Street School. The three portable buildings have been removed away from the brick structure to another part of the school lot. With the completion of the addition, these portables will no longer be needed there but will come in handy for some other purpose.

50 Years Ago

  • The Northampton School Committee last night, in a three-and-a-half-hour session, voted 7 to 2 against a motion by William J. Cuneo to delete courses in tennis, swimming and ceramics from this year’s Smith-Northampton Summer School. Cuneo argued that the courses are recreational, and do not provide remedial instruction or enrichment.
  • Northampton District Court Judge Alvertus J. Morse yesterday put a 17-year-old defendant to work picking up litter, instead of fining or sentencing him for two drug charges. The young man was given three weeks to clean up the litter on either side of Riverside Drive in Bay State between the Northampton Cutlery Co. and the entrance to Maine’s Field. He was told to pick up every bit of litter he could see from the road.