A Look Back, Oct. 19

200 Years Ago

■Apple Tree Nursery! E. Hunt has for sale in Northampton two hundred apple trees comprising the following kinds: Greenings, Royals, Roxbury Russettings, Summer and Winter Pearmains, Baldwin, Newtown Pippins, Seek-No-Furthers, Golden Sweetings, Jenetins, Nonpareils, Ribstone Pippins and Hubbardstone Nonesuch.

■The inhabitants of Northampton and the vicinity are respectfully informed that Mr. A. E. Watson has taken a large and commodious house, situated on Pleasant Street and now undergoing a thorough repair, where he intends opening, on the 2nd Monday of Nov., a Seminary for Young Ladies, who can be taught, in addition to all the branches of a modern polite education, the Latin and French languages.

100 Years Ago

■An Easthampton woman was fined $50 for a liquor violation and the court noted on the complaint that the woman was “a widow and has a large family.” She was given a sentence of two months in the house of correction on a charge of maintaining a liquor nuisance.

■“May the story of the Smith College unit be your heritage and your pride and may its story be told to each succeeding college generation, that its glory may never die,” said President William Allan Neilson this morning at the exercises in John M. Greene Hall, which were part of the dedication ceremony of the Grecourt gates, the memorial to the Smith College relief unit, which now stand at the entrance to the college.

50 Years Ago

■Responding to public suggestions offered in recent months, Northampton’s planning board last night revised the proposed new city zoning ordinance to further restrict construction of two family homes and town houses in many residential areas. Residents of various parts of the city had complained in earlier public sessions that the new zoning would “downgrade” their neighborhoods.

■A Northampton physician, Dr. Nicholas J. Greco, is the American party’s candidate for lieutenant governor in the Nov. 5 statewide elections. Greco, of 264 Elm St., a skin specialist, is running on a ticket headed by gubernatorial candidate Leo F. Kahian of Middleboro.