A Look Back: Nov. 2, 2024

200 Years Ago

■Notice! Elihu Peirce, an indented servant, bound by the overseers of the poor in Hadley to the subscriber for one year, has left his service. This is to forbid all persons from harboring or employing said Peirce, on penalty of the law. — Sylvester Smith.

■Merino Sheep! The subscriber offers for sale 20 ewes and 20 wethers from his flock of fine sheep, which may be an object for a person who wishes to begin a flock of fine sheep, as they will be offered low. — Theodore Lyman, Northampton.

100 Years Ago

■Northampton will have an opportunity to pay a fitting tribute to its most distinguished fellow-citizen, and to enthusiastically express its confidence in him, at a huge pre-election celebration to be held on Monday night, final plans for which were announced at a meeting of the 25 representative citizens and the officers of the Coolidge and Woman’s Republican club held at the Draper Hotel today.

Repairs and alterations to the Draper Hotel, which will provide for about 45 new rooms and an addition to the annex of the building and the fitting up of all the guest rooms, are part of the activities which are now under way by the new management of the hotel.

50 Years Ago

■Arab-Israeli conflict is likely to remain a fact of life in the Middle East until both sides are forced, by reality and moral pressure, to change their views, Israeli professor Menachem Milson, said in an interview this week at Smith College. The hard line of the Arabs in refusing to recognize Israel is the result of the “extreme, militant, intolerant” form that emerging nationalism often takes, Milson said.

■Halloween was an evening of excitement, costumes and candy for most trick-or-treating children in the area. But the mild weather also brought out Halloween vandals who smashed pumpkins, set some 13 fires in the city and destroyed over $250 worth of playground equipment at Sheldon Field and Arcanum Field.