A Look Back: Sept. 16

200 Years Ago

■On the 6th inst. one of the stages that run between Northampton and New Haven was overturned near Cheshire, Conn., in consequence of the horses being frightened, and Mr. George Ashmun of this town had a leg broken.

■The Pittsfield Sun informs us that the Rev. Heman Humphrey, D.D., has accepted the appointment of president of the Amherst collegiate institution. We understand he intends to enter on the duties of his office early in the next term.

100 Years Ago

■A chilly September morning did not interfere with the selling at the community market today. The producers had a fine supply of vegetables and fruit, peaches selling the best. Orders are being taken for winter’s supplies by all the market men.

■Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. DeRose and their daughter, Louise, started this afternoon for their cottage at Pleasant View, R.I., and on Monday will go to Providence, where they will take the boat to New York, thence sail to Atlantic City. They will go with a party of railroad agents and will be gone a week.

50 Years Ago

■Along with newspapers, bottles, and aluminum cans, area residents are being urged to recycle old crutches. A spokesman for Cooley Dickinson Hospital said Friday that wood shortages have forced manufacturers to cut back shipments of crutches and that the hospital is down to its last half dozen pairs.

■At least three horses owned by a Rattle Hill Road, Southampton, family have contracted equine infectious anemia, a well-known but somewhat rare disease known commonly as “swamp fever” that destroys the animal’s red blood cells. The disease cannot be contracted by humans.

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