200 Years Ago
- Nathan Storrs, being about to make new arrangements in his business, requests all persons indebted, either by book, account or note, which have been of more than one year’s standing, to pay a part or all previous to the first of January next. He has on hand, and keeps constantly for sale, a large supply of the first-rate silver, table and teaspoons, gold beads, brass andirons, shovel and tongs, together with a general assortment of goods in his line of business.
- Wanted, by the Shepherd Woolen Manufacturing Company, 200 cords dry oak, and 100 cords dry pine wood, delivered at the factory, previous to Dec. 1, for which a fair cash price will be given.
100 Years Ago
- A full year has now elapsed since Alice M. Corbett, Smith College junior, disappeared from the campus, but her whereabouts is as much a mystery as ever. The passing of twelve months, without any trace of her, strengthens the theory that she died by drowning, either intentionally while mentally upset, or accidentally as she wandered away from the city.
- Seven of the nine different roof surfaces of the new hotel have been papered and tarred, and Monday the work of putting slag on top of the many layers of paper will begin. The building is now waterproof except for some ventilating shafts and a few openings where doors or windows are yet to be fitted.
50 Years Ago
- Prison inmates at the Hampshire County House of Correction will soon be working at state mental institutions and the Belchertown State School has announced a program to hire them. Both institutions are part of a program funded by a federal grant that is meant to provide public service work for prisoners
- Teachers’ complaints about not being consulted on the selection of classroom material and equipment for the enlarged Jackson Street School led this week to a request for an investigation by the Northampton School Committee. Russell W. Carrier, vice chair of the school committee, asked the Jackson Street Addition Building Committee to request a school board investigation of the procedures used to equip the enlarged school.