We are informed by a person who has long been engaged in the business of buying and selling cattle that the number of oxen annually fattened for market, in the winter, in the old county of Hampshire, is about thirty-five hundred. About one third of these are fed in Deerfield and Hatfield and a large number in Conway.
Lost, on Sunday morning last, between Mrs. Upham’s boarding house and the new church, the lower joint of one of Clementi’s patent lined flutes. It is supposed to have been picked up by someone in going to the morning service. If the finder will leave it at this office, he shall be handsomely rewarded for his trouble.
100 Years Ago
The following entrants will appear in the Charleston dancing contest at the Calvin theater Tuesday evening: Miss Norma Gary, South Street, Northampton, and Patrick Cashman, Barrett Street, Northampton. There will be two others who did not wish to give their names, but who will appear in the contest.
Tearing down of the old wooden buildings on the site of the new hotel at King and Court streets has progressed so far that there is a wide swatch completely cleared, and an “X” placed in the center of the site would indicate “where the cyclone struck.”
50 Years Ago
The Northampton Lions Club will celebrate its 40th anniversary tomorrow night at the Northampton Country Club. Alexander V. Todd, a charter member who has been with the club since 1936, will be among the dignitaries at the dinner, along with Michael Cahillane, the youngest and newest member of the service organization.
Ernst Wallfisch, a Smith College music professor, will perform in a concert in New York City’s Carnegie Hall Tuesday. Wallfisch will play with Yehudi Menuhin and Mstislav Rostropovich. Thirty years ago, Menuhin assisted Wallfisch and his wife Lory in leaving Communist Romania.