Jim Bridgman

200 Years Ago

  • Mr. Preserved Bartlett of Northampton exhibited at the late cattle show a sow and three litters of pigs, the oldest of which were only a year and five days old. The first and second litters, 19 in number, were all fat, and it was estimated by good judges that they would make, if slaughtered then, over 4,000 pounds of excellent pork.
  • M. P. Guigon, instructor at the Round Hill Seminary, respectfully informs the ladies and gentlemen of Northampton that he proposes to open a school for their instruction in the polite accomplishment of dancing, agreeable to the most fashionable and approved style. M. G., having had long experience in his practice both in New York and Boston, flatters himself that by his assiduity and unremitting attention to his pupils, he shall be able to give general satisfaction.

100 Years Ago

  • City Clerk James R. Mansfield will recommend to the incoming city government of 1927 that the seven wards of Northampton be divided into two precincts each, for the purpose of reducing the number of ballots which each set of election officers now have to count, and also to provide more convenient polling places for the voters.
  • David Ziff, former Northampton High School basketball and football star, is now playing end on the Brooklyn Lions National League professional team. Ziff was with Syracuse University’s grid team two years ago. With him on the Lions is Jappe, also a former end on the Syracuse team.

50 Years Ago

  • A general alarm fire early today caused damage estimated at more than $100,000 to the Daniels block on Main Street, left 19 people homeless, and sent several persons, including a fireman and policeman, to the hospital with minor injuries. It was the first major fire in the city’s downtown business district in more than a decade.
  • Two legally blind Northampton men who said Tuesday that they were initially denied their right to vote, were eventually allowed to vote before the polls closed. At first the two men were not allowed to bring their wives into the voting booth to aid them, as the election law allows.