50 Years Ago

• Notice is hereby given that the petition of the Hampshire and Hampden Canal Company, signed by Samuel Hinckley and others, and presented at the session of the Legislature commencing on the last Wednesday of May 1825, for the purpose, among other things, of being empowered “to extend their canal to the north line of the state,” will be called up to be acted upon at the session of the Legislature commencing on the last Wednesday of May.
• Mr. P. Guigon, Jr., from New York, having been entrusted by the Principals of Round Hill School with the care of instructing their pupils in the art of dancing, respectfully informs the ladies and gentlemen of Northampton that he proposes forming a class at the Masonic Hall for the purpose of teaching the young ladies and young gentlemen of this place the same art.

25 Years Ago

• Many Northampton people who planned on a Sunday afternoon “nap” yesterday were euchred out of it by the loud buzzing of two aeroplanes which were flying over the city from morning till night. These machines, from out of town, were operating from the meadows on the Holyoke Road below the dike, near one of the filling stations.
• An Amherst College freshman, who was expelled May 14th for bootlegging, was arraigned in district court this morning for illegally transporting intoxicating liquor in Amherst last night. According to police, the student was bringing liquor to the campus and selling it in quantities for a considerable time.

10 Years Ago

• The “little red schoolhouse” on Pine Street, part of Florence public and parochial education for almost a century, is slated for razing. The school is owned by Annunciation Church and stands near the convent. That, too, will go. “We don’t care about the convent,” said Mrs. Wilfred Spencer, Jr., a member of the parish, “but we want the school to stay.”
• Ludolph H. Nehring Jr., a resident of Northampton and master sergeant with the 104th Tactical Fighter Group of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, recently received a certificate of commendation for special achievement as a National Guard technician.