Jim Bridgman

200 Years Ago

  • Boys frequently assemble for bathing near the place where the Northampton bridge is being erected, to the annoyance of passengers and the disturbance of the workmen. On Saturday last two lads were in the most imminent danger of drowning and were saved by the exertions of Mr. Smith, one of Capt. Damons’ hands. Parents are requested to restrain their children from visiting the river while the bridge is being built.
  • On the 12 of July, a daughter of Mr. Andrew Everett of Worthington, 11 years old, in attempting to take a pail of water from a well, was precipitated head foremost, with the pail, into the well 19 feet in depth, and containing 5 feet of water. Though considerably bruised on her head and otherwhere, she succeeded in reaching the top of the well, without assistance, and before anyone knew she had been in peril.

100 Years Ago

  • Arrangements are understood to have been made by the President and Mrs. Coolidge during their visit to Plymouth, Vermont, to have a permanent stone marker placed over the grave of their son, Calvin, Jr., who died in Washington two years ago. The youth lies in the family lot in the little hillside cemetery, but the placing of a stone has been delayed until careful personal attention could be given to it.
  • The engagement of Miss Margaret Elizabeth Heaphy of Lee to Mayor William M. Welch of Northampton was announced yesterday by her mother. When the Mayor was greeted at his office in city hall this morning, he smilingly said that “it must be true.”

50 Years Ago

  • The Smith’s Vocational High School board of trustees voted 3 to 2 yesterday to drop efforts to hire an uncertified carpentry teacher on the advice of the Division of Occupational Education. The trustees voted instead, 4 to 1, to hire Daniel Landers, of Pittsfield, a teacher at the Pathfinder Vocational-Technical School in Palmer, for the carpentry position.
  • After five months of doubt the board of trustees of the Amherst Montessori School are now confident that the school will be able to continue operating at its current location in the parish house of the Second Congregational Church. Whether the school would be able to continue to rent the quarters became a question when the Second Congregational Church announced that it would sell its building on lower Main Street to the Amherst Jewish Community.