200 Years Ago
- The public examination of the students in Hopkins Academy will be on Monday, the 21st inst. It will commence at 8 o’clock, A.M., and continue with a 1½ hour recess till 3 o’clock, P.M. and will be followed by the reading of several premium compositions and by prize speaking. The fall term will commence on the 5th of September.
- We learn that a new post route has been established from Cummington in this county, through Windsor to Dalton in Berkshire County; and that Dr. Hezekiah M. Wells has been appointed postmaster at Windsor.
100 Years Ago
- Joseph M. Lyman, news editor of the Daily Hampshire Gazette, and Mrs. Lyman were the only persons uninjured in the wreck of the Sunset Special at Calverton, Long Island, last night. This authentic information was received by the Gazette this morning in a telephone message from E. A. Merrill of Westfield, N.J., father of Mrs. Lyman.
- Steel girders were installed in the Memorial Hall ground floor yesterday to furnish more rigid support for the floor of the auditorium. Contractor Matthew I. O’Connor is personally supervising the job.
50 Years Ago
- Northampton Supt. of Schools John M. Buteau is retiring as head of the city’s schools, a position he has held for 11 years. Buteau, who will be 65 on Nov. 3, said he will leave the post Dec. 31. He has been employed in the Northampton schools since 1946.
- Pioneer Valley Muster Days, which were canceled two weeks ago by the sponsors, the Sixth Massachusetts Continentals, have now been revived and will be sponsored by another colonial militia unit, the Second Hampshire Regiment. Donald Rivette and Edward Berube, who have organized several musters in the past, are leading the move to revive the muster days, on a smaller scale than had originally been proposed.