A Look Back: April 12

200 Years Ago

■By order of the Court of Probate, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Oliver Warner, innholder in Northampton, on the fifth day of May next, so much of the real estate of Elisha Burt, of Northampton, as will produce the sum of four hundred and forty-five dollars, for the payment of his just debts. Said real estate consists of about 10 acres of land in Brotten’s Meadow; also, about 100 acres of land lying at halfway brook, adjoining lands of Samuel Hinckley Esq.

■There will be a concert of Sacred Music at Westhampton on Thursday, the 15th, at Chester on Wednesday, the 28th, and at Norwich on Friday, the 30th. Exercises to commence at 2 o’clock p.m.

100 Years Ago

■The Hon. Frank G. Allen, president of the Massachusetts Senate, read a telegram from President Calvin Coolidge at the opening of his address before over two thousand members of the Coolidge Club of Northampton, who joined together in John M. Greene Hall last night to show their faith in their fellow citizen.

■The Calvin Theatre in all its splendor will open to the public next Thursday evening, with a wonderful program of select Keith vaudeville, comprising five high class acts and a Paramount feature photoplay, “Fair Week,” with Walter Hiers. The opening of the new theatre will mark an event that long will be remembered in Northampton.

50 Years Ago

■The county’s oldest resident, Mrs. Anna Murphy, will celebrate her 107th birthday Monday. A long-time resident of Florence, Mrs. Murphy, who boasts she was once “one of the best cooks around,” now lives at the Hampshire County Hospital in Leeds.

■Frank E. White of Goshen has joined the Frank D. Lawrence Associates Inc. Real Estate firm as an associate. White has been associated with Northampton State Hospital for 18 years and is presently employed as an occupational therapist. He is a member and past president of the World War II Veterans Club.