A Look Back, March 7

200 Years Ago

• Notice! Persons desirous of taking stock in the Hampshire and Hampden Canal Company are informed that the subscription papers are in the hands of the respective committees appointed for that purpose at the meeting held at Curtis’ Tavern on Feb. 22, and that they will be returned to the executive committee on Wednesday, the 15th, inst.
• An old house in Hadley, three tons of broom corn, and 3,000 or 4,000 handles, were consumed by fire two or three weeks since. Broom manufactories are peculiarly exposed to the devouring element, from the large quantities of light, combustible matter which they contain.

100 Years Ago

• W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, editor of “The Crisis,” a prominent New York man of negro blood, will address an open meeting of the Hampshire County Progressive Club next Sunday evening at the People’s Institute, speaking on “The Rights of the Negro.”
• Miss Ada Comstock, famous woman educator, president of Radcliffe College and formerly dean at Smith, is one of forty-nine women, one from each state in the Union and the District of Columbia, who have been invited to attend a mass meeting in their honor to be held by the American WomenÕs Association in New York on March 13.

50 Years Ago

• The Dutch elm disease has forced the city’s department of public works to cut down 62 more elm trees throughout the city this winter. Two large elm trees on State Street, near the corner of Main, were removed.
• The closing of St. Michael’s schools is not expected to cause extensive redistricting or massive new costs to the city. An analysis of the situation by Supt. of Schools John M. Buteau shows that elementary level overcrowding would occur, however, at the Leeds and Ryan Road schools.

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