Springfield, West Springfield, Chicopee and Longmeadow directory 1958, Part 296

Author: Springfield (Mass.)
Publication date: 1958
Publisher: Price & Lee Co.
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SPRINGFIELD DIRECTORY-1958

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Every line of BUSINESS calls for INTELLIGENT ADVERTISING

Eye-catching Advertising caters to a chance trade, whose eyes are wandering.

Businesslike Advertising puts its display where it will be seen by those Looking for the message it bears.

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW

The meaning of a word, Where Do You Look? In the Diction- ary.

Who sells what you want to buy, IN THE DIRECTORY.

A directory is On The Job 365 Days in the year, and he who looks therein does so because he WANTS SOMETHING.

THE PRICE & LEE CO.

Directory Publishers

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THE SHORTEST DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO POINTS IS A STRAIGHT LINE

Your City I City Directory is the Straight Line medium to bring Your Merchandise and Your Services direct to the buyer.

There is no running around in circles be- fore finding the commodity or service the buyer wants to purchase.

The Buyers Guide and the detailed listings in your City Directory form the STRAIGHT LINE to your needs.

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Member Association of North American Directory Publishers

New Haven

Connecticut

938-1032

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STOP

STOP OR GO!

Red means Stop-Green means Go. Your ad in the Directory is the Green signal to Go-and the results will be a Green light all along the way.

DIRECTORY Advertising- PAYS DIVIDENDS

WEST SPRINGFIELD DIRECTORY

1958

Combining Five Distinct Directories :-

Governmental Directory-City, County, State and Federal. Buyers Directory-A local source of sales and service. Classified Directory-Business, Professional and Social. Alphabetical Directory-Names, occupations and addresses. Numerical Directory-Streets, householders and business.

Find

IS AS IMPORTANT

City

Directory

THE PRICE & LEE COMPANY

PUBLISHERS CITY DIRECTORIES

"Of the people, for the people"

Since 1873

1653 MAIN STREET, SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

MEMBER ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICAN DIRECTORY PUBLISHERS

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CONTENTS

Page

Abbreviations

297

Halls

1063

AAlphabetical Directory

1069

Index to Advertisers

1034

Apartment Buildings

1057

Library

1056

Associations, Clubs and Societies 1057

Map Inside Back Cover

Banks and Trust Companies

1059

Notaries Public

1064

Buyers' Directory

1035

Numerical Directory

1135

Cemeteries

1059

Police Department 1056

Churches

1060

Post Offices 1056

Classified Directory

1057

Corporations and Chartered Insti-

Schools, Colleges and Academies

1066

tutions-See Alphabetical Directory

Town Officers 1056

Fire Department 1056

West Springfield - "What You

Governmental Directory

1056

Should Know About" 1047

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Ainsworth Gordon E & Associates

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Mittineague Coal & Oil Co

1037

Barry Coal Inc

1036

Nims B D Lumber Co

1039

Berlin Manufacturing Co

1045

Premoid Corporation

1041

Consiglio Enterprises Inc

1046

Radner Samuel Inc

1039

Curran-Jones Inc

Back Cover side lines and 1038

Sheaffer H ( Co Inc

1045

Farnsworth Coal and Oil Co Inc .

1040 Speed Hegeman and Dandy

1044

Fullam and Company

1043

Strathmore Paper Co

1042

1045 West Springfield Co-operative Bank

1035

Labbe P A Co

Page

School Department 1056

Banks 1035

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West Springfield Co-operative Bank

WEST SPRINGFIELD CO-OPERATIVE BANK

INCORPORATED APRIL 8, 1897 COMMENCED BUSINESS MAY 12, 1897

BUSINESS HOURS from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. BUSINESS HOURS 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. on the Second Wednesday of Each Month THURSDAY EVENING, 6:30 to 8 P. M.

FREE PARKING

Telephone RE 6-2780

37 Elm Street West Springfield, Mass.

President, Richard M. Robinson Vice-President, Henry W. Egan Treasurer, Earle C. Harvey Asst. Treas., Muriel P. Sears

Darrel S. Ames Joseph J. Borgatti Cassius M. Bryan George B. Corcoran, M. D.

Gordon B. Shattuck

DIRECTORS

Ambrose B. Cote Henry W. Egan Earle C. Harvey Eugene G. Boss, M.D.

Howard M. Teece Richard M. Robinson Carl B. Smith Melvin D. Southworth Richard C. Streeter

Civil Engineers,-Coal and Fuel Oil

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Gordon E. Ainsworth & Associates

SUCCESSOR TO STEELE BROS.

Civil Engineers

Land Surveyors

Structural Engineers

Municipal Engineers

Landscape Architects

Contractors Engineering Service

10 CENTRAL STREET

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Tel. REpublic 6-3875

2 GRAVES STREET

SOUTH DEERFIELD

Tel. NOrmandy 5-2161

Member of Massachusetts Association of Land Surveyors and Civil Engineers and of The American Congress on Surveying and Mapping

BARRY COAL INC. Blue Coal - Connecticut Coke Fuel Oil - York Oil Burners Complete Heating Service On a 24 Hour Basis

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DIAL RE 2-9791

772 Union Street

West Springfield, Massachusetts

Coal and Fuel Oil

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Mittineague Coal & Oil Co. WILLIAM P. CHRISTIAN, OWNER

COAL - CONNECTICUT COKE FUEL OIL

Installations and 24 Hour Service Prompt Deliveries

-.- DIAL RE 6-7935

80 Front Street West Springfield, Mass.

WELD Production

TO GREATER

SALES

The welder takes two pieces of rod -welds them together, thus making one complete product.

Why not take a tip from the welder make Directory advertising a part of your sales program - weld the loose ends of production and sales together.

Funeral Homes

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CURRAN-JONES INC. FUNERAL HOME

Telephone RE 6-7742

109 Main Street

West Springfield, Mass.

Lumber,-Oil Distributors

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B. D. NIMS LUMBER CO.

Lumber and Building Materials MASON SUPPLIES HARDWARE - PAINT ALL MATERIALS CARRIED UNDER COVER

Phone RE 2-6253

Yard and Office: 253 Baldwin Street

West Springfield, Mass.

SAMUEL RADNER, INC.

D. B. A.

AMERICAN FUEL OIL CO. AMERICAN PETROLEUM TRANSPORT CO.

Wholesale and Retail

Range OILS Gasoline

Fuel

Wholesale Petroleum Products Transportation Trucks For Hire Oil Burner Sales and Service DELIVERIES ANYWHERE

TELEPHONE RE 6-3611

OFFICE: 91 UNION

WEST SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

Oil and Oil Burners

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Farnsworth Coal & Oil Co., Inc.

"Your Comfort Is Our Product"

Coal - Connecticut Coke Fuel Oil - Oil Burners - Heating

Sales

Those Who Know Choose SILENT GLOW OIL BURNERS

Service

Distributors Silent Flow air Seed Oil Burners

DIAL RE 6-6377

884 UNION STREET WEST SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

FISHING IN THE RIGHT SPOT ?

Have you ever noticed a dejected fisherman sitting for hours, without even a nibble - and the small boy fifty. feet away pulling in the big ones?

It's just a case of fishing in the right spot. The directory is the right spot for your advertising - it will produce the results - the big ones.

use your Directory - the RIGHT SPOT

Paper Mfrs.

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PREMOID CORPORATION West Springfield, Massachusetts

PREMOID

MANUFACTURERS OF SPECIAL INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNICAL PAPERS LATEX IMPREGNATED AND COATED FIBERS

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING:

ARTIFICIAL LEATHER ON A FIBER BASE LATEX FIBER BASES FOR BACKING AND COATING NEOPRENE FIBER BASES PYROXYLIN COATED LATEX FIBERS VINYL COATED LATEX FIBERS

PAPER FOR GASKET SATURATORS (CORK AND PLAIN) PAPER FOR LATEX SATURATORS PAPER FOR RESINOUS SATURATORS

Paper Mfrs.

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Woronoco Mills

Strathmore Paper Company MILLS AT WEST SPRINGFIELD, WORONOCO AND TURNERS FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS

Manufacturers of

BOND, WRITING AND THIN PAPERS . BOOK, TEXT AND COVER PAPERS ARTIST PAPERS AND BOARDS . BLUE PRINT BASE STOCK . WEDDING PAPERS AND BRISTOLS . GREETING CARD AND SPECIALTY PAPERS

Paper is Part of the Picture

West Springfield Mills

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Real Estate and Insurance

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RALPH E. FULLAM Residence Telephone RE 2-3596

HOWARD R. BRACKETT Residence Telephone RE 7-8540

ALLAN L. BAIARDI Residence Telephone RE 6-5154

KENNETH A. HOLLISTER Residence Telephone RE 4-8320

FULLAM AND COMPANY REALTORS

YOL ATION

REALTORS BOARDS Cups ITUt =1

TAT

SERVING WEST SPRINGFIELD AND AGAWAM

INSURANCE LIFE - FIRE CASUALTY

REAL ESTATE SALES - MORTGAGES APPRAISALS

Telephone RE 6-6351

110 Elm Street, East Elm Bldg. West Springfield

OARDS NOU

REALTORS

ESTATE

Real Estate and Insurance

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KENNETH G. SPEED RE 4-3083

EARL K. DANDY, Jr.

RE 4-6992

CHARLES B. HEGEMAN RE 2-9600

SPEED, HEGEMAN AND DANDY

REALTORS

OF RE A

AREACTIVE MEMBERS OF CONSTITUENT BO-12DA

BOARDS NO

ESTA

INSURANCE AGENCY

Fire - Life - Public Liability

REAL ESTATE

Sales - Appraisals Property Management

TEL. RE 7-2604

54 Elm Street West Springfield, Massachusetts

Next to the Post Office

Roofers,-Screw Machine Products

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Gravel Roofing - Asphalt Shingles - Slating - Gutters - Furnace Work - Ventilation - Duct Work - Caulking REPAIRS

P. A. LABBE CO.

ROOFING AND SHEET METAL WORK

Over 40 Years Experience Outstanding Service and Quality

364 Westfield Street Tel. RE 2-2343

West Springfield, Mass.

H. C. Sheaffer, President-Treasurer

H. C. Sheaffer Co., Inc.

SINCE 1912 ROOFING AND SHEET METAL CONTRACTORS

TELEPHONE RE 6-4352

Office and Shop, Rear 30 Eldridge Avenue Box 23, West Springfield, Mass.

Berlin Manufacturing Co. PAUL C. DAUBITZ, Prop.

TURRET LATHE AND SCREW MACHINE PRODUCTS

Experimental Work . Small Runs . Precision Work Specialists

TEL. RE 2-9803

Rear 30 Eldridge Avenue West Springfield, Mass.

THE CITY DIRECTORY ...

Does not compete with any other advertising medium, but sup- plements and complements all other forms of mercantile publicity. Intelligent Directory Advertising describes desirable merchandise attractively and directs you to the door of the man who has it for sale.

Securities,-Investments

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CONSIGLIO ENTERPRISES, INC.

LOUIS CONSIGLIO, Pres .- Treas.

CONSIGLIO ENTERPRISES, INC.

(Formerly Interstate Busses Corporation)

SECURITIES

INVESTMENTS

Office Telephone RE 2-5035 Residence Telephone RE 4-7180

137 Bridge Street Springfield 172 Memorial Ave., West Springfield

INTERSTATE BUSSES CORP. OF CONNECTICUT

(Formerly Interstate Busses Corporation)

SECURITIES and

INVESTMENTS

Office Telephone RE 2-5035 Residence Telephone RE 4-7180

137 Bridge Street

Springfield

172 Memorial Ave., West Springfield

WELD

Production

TO GREATER /

SALES

The welder takes two pieces of rod-welds them together, thus making one complete product. Why not take a tip from the welder - make directory advertising a part of your sales program. Weld the loose ends of production and sales together.

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A SUMMARY

Suggested and Planned by American Community Advertising Association. Adopted as a regular feature in all directories published by the Association of North American Directory Publishers. Completed and corrected annually through the courtesy of the West Springfield Chamber of Commerce. Carl G. Linberg, Secretary P. O. Box 25 171 Morton St. Tel. RE 7-6437

WEST SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

Established February 23, 1774

Form of Government Elective Town Meeting System.

Population Mass. Census 22,871 (1956).

Population of Age Males 49.6%, Females 50.4%.

Predominating Nationalities of Foreign-Born French, Italian, English, Bohemian, Irish, Polish, German.

Area

17 sq. miles.

Average Temperature

50.3º.

Parks Two with 68 acres valued at $150,000.

Assessed Valuation $63,301,934 (1957).

Tax Rate $46 per $1,000 (1956).

Bonded Debt Town's bonded debt is $4,465,000.

Post Office Receipts $368,358.76 (Dec. 31, 1957).

Church Buildings 15, practically all denominations.

Building and Construction

Building permits issued valued at $3,527,230 Number of permits issued 1957-415.

Industrial (1955) Number of establishments 68, employing 4,434 men and women paying wages of $20,798,000 annually.

Trade (Retail) Retail territory serves 42,000 people within a radius of 10 miles totaling $23,800,000.

Newspapers

One. Radio Broadcasting Stations

WTXL. Principal Products

Paper, fibre boxes, machine gears, chemicals, paints, gasoline pumps, tin, solder, type metal, wood boxes, bound books, farm produce, magnetos, machine tools, trailer truck accessories, wrapping paper machin- ery and hair tonic.

Hotels

One with 25 rooms. Fifteen motels with ac- commodations for 450 people.

Railroads Boston & Albany, Boston & Maine.

Amusements

One theatre, with a seating capacity of 850; 2 outdoor theatres, Junior high school au- ditorium seats 850. Community Y.M.C.A. Eastern States Exposition. High School Auditorium seats 1,100.

Educational

Number of schools 12, including 1 junior, 2 senior high schools and 2 parochial schools. Number of pupils in public schools, 3,925, in parochial schools 990. Number of teachı- ers in public schools 180; in parochial schools 27.

Public Library

One with three stations containing 45,484 volumes. Circulation, 98,404.

"What You Should Know About Your City"

"The helpful kind of patriotism is the kind that grows out of a knowledge of one's town, of her growth, her people, her property, her government and her needs. This knowledge develops, first, an intelligent interest: then, a sympathy : then a reasonable affection: a wise and temperate jealousy for her good name and a wish that she may prosper and grow more beautiful: and, finally, a desire to help her to become greater and finer, a bright and clean workshop and a home for the best of men and women."-John Cotton Dana.

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HISTORY

The West Springfield that was and that is

West Springfield, Massachusetts, first off-shoot from Springfield, the "Mother Town," was the larg- est, most important settlement of this region. The first permanent house was built here about 1654. It became a separate parish in 1696. Its first church and its first school house were built in 1740. The attempt was made to iucorporate it as an independent township in 1756 but not until February, 1774, was the in- corporation accomplished. Exactly a month later in March of that year, the first town meeting was held in the old First Church (built 1702), on the common.

Before iucorporation, the town numbered only a few houses scattered along "Shad Lane" now Main Street, southward to the old "Ferry Lane" now East School Street, thence extending by winding course to the Agawam River giving the route of George Washington's two journeys through West Springfield, aud ending where the outlines of the old Agawam "ferrying-place" are yet plainly visible on the river bank near the Hamblen place.

West Springfield up to 1810 contained a greater population than the mother town and was for years the mainstay and support. Within the limits of the original territory of this settlement, William Pynchon and his associates planted their colony in 1636, but later moved to the east side to avoid floods. In 1653, the proprietors made an allotment of lands on the west side of the river, which were not oceupied at onec, but used as meadows and pas- tures. Gradually the settlers crossed over to build homes on the rich bottom lands. In 1696 the second parish, comprising three districts, Agawamn, the Street and the Chicopee plains, was established on petition of the inhabitants. In 1774, West Spring- field applied for and was granted the full powers and privileges of a town. Its original territory ex- tended from the Connecticut state line to the fort

of Mt. Tom aud included the richest lands of the Mother town.

West Springfield has grown much in the 181 years since its incorporation. According to census figures, Springfield had grown enough when it had started to rival the population of its west-side daughter, to reach a more even balance. For ex- ample, the population of West Springfield as late as 1820 reached 3246, while Springfield was only 668 ahcad! A closer balance than the two will never again reaeh! Beeause of the fear that it might bring an undesirable class, if the project of having the proposed United States Armory on the West Side was carried out, the town's golden opportunity had been passed! Thus supremacy in population, as well as greater industrial and commercial prosperity be- came settled on the East Side, where it has since remained!

OLD FIRST CHURCH OF THE COMMON

The old First Congregational Chureh on the Common, nearly opposite the present Town Hall, (sce historic bowlder, marking the location), was erected within four years after the formation of the parish, as the date stated on the quaint gilded rooster weather vane, 1702. The building was 42 feet square, and with its gable-topped, "two-story" tower, was 92 fect in height. The architeet was the veteran builder, John Allys, of Hatfield. The vane was said to be of precisely the same height and size of the imported-from-England bird which has been performing similar duty on the tower of the First Congregational Church in Court Square, Spring- field. It was said to have been purehased at the same time, with three others, made by the English coppersmith.

The first story constituting audience room and galleries, with three outside doors, and two windows each side of the doors with corresponding windows above them to light the galleries and upon each of the four roofs projected a dormer gable with a

window. The pulpit, on the north side in place of a door, was lighted with one window on each side. Above this story was another much smaller than the first, having one window on each side and high roofs and gables like the one below, upon this was a third story smaller than the second with roofs and gables, the body portions of this story having on each side an opening to serve the purpose of a bell- room.

A drum was used for 41 years and then a bell was procured and used for 18 years when its tones were ruined in like manner and re-cast and replaced in its place in the tower; in 1802 it was transferred to the new church on the hill; it was re-cast in 1825 to enlarge its size. The building was clap- boarded but uever painted. All the windows were small with leaden sash glazed with diamond shaped glass.

All of the interior of the first story was all open, exposing to view beams, studding, rafters and

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outside boarding, no inside finishing above window stools, the floor was laid at the bottom of the sills making it necessary to step ovor the sill to the floor. Two flights of stairs led up to the galleries in the south easterly and south westerly corners, start- ing each side of the door. Around the walls were 15 large square pews, in the central part were two rows of long slips fronting the pulpit with, a partition between them, one division being oc- cupied by the men the other by women, one aisle on the east and one on the west side. Pulpit, pews and railing of oak and yellow pine, of the size, style and height of the pulpit nothing is definitely known, it was furnished with a sounding board.

This unique house of worship was occupied for a century without plaster or paint, or was ever a fire

built within its walls, the women using foot-stoves with live coals. In 1748 Mr. Obadiah Frary, of Northampton, constructed a wooden "Meeting House Clock" and it was placed in the tower and was used for 25 or 30 years, when it became unfit for usc and was removed. The building being sadly in need of repairs, the parish gave the people liberty to make repairs which was done at expense of nearly $600.00; it was used 16 years after this, when it was abandoned for the new church on the hill, June, 1800, for which the contract price was said to have been $1400.00 and 10 gallons of St. Croix Rum, valued at $60.00; no rum was used, its value in money divided among the men. 6 to 10 men were employed, and the contractor, Timothy Bill- ings, thought he made $4.00 a day.

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

In 1775, a library was established in West Springfield through the efforts of Rev. Dr. Lathrop, the pastor of First Parish, and John Ashley, a public-spirited citizen. There were 50 volumes in this collection, they were carried from house to house in a two bushel basket. It was considered a high honor to have the Library in charge. Beginning about 1850, the Library was in charge of the Town Clerk, during the long service of John M. Harmon. It was conducted from his home on Westfield Street, later from a room in the Town Hall assigned for library use. The annual appropriation was $50 plus the dog tax. By a payment of 50 cents a year, books could be drawn out on the first and third Monday of each month. Later the hours of opening were increased and the annual fee abolished. In 1887, a librarian, D. G. White, was appointed, who served until his death in 1913. The present building was completed in 1916 at a cost of $25,000, the gift of the Carnegie Corporation. It is erected on a site

purchased by the town from William and Edwin Leonard, and maintained by an appropriation made annually by the town. In addition there are four trust funds the income of which is used to purchase books; the Daniel Granger White Nature Library, the Martha D. S. Ludington Fund, the Lillian Trask Williamson Fund for the purchase of reference books and books of travel, and the Josephine Pokorny Czecho Slovak Library for the purchase of books in the Bohemian language and books about Czecho Slovakia.

The building is open from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. daily except Sundays and holidays. There are branch libraries in the Community Y. M. C. A., the John Ashley School, the Memorial Avenue School and the Riverdale School. Each of these is open one day a week in charge of an assistant from the central library. In 1954, the total number of volumes was 43,573 and the circulation for the year 87,712.

EASTERN STATES FARMERS' EXCHANGE

Skies on both sides of the Atlantic were be- coming overcast with the clouds leading inevitably to war, when then this truly great world movement was quietly launched. Rev. Johu A. Sherley, a Bennington County (Vermont) Minister secured ready and sympathetic cooperation of the paper- manufacturer, Horace A. Moses. From the be- ginning, these two genuine philanthropists have worked untiringly and whole-heartedly for greater improvement in farm life and general community betterment. It was most fortunate the same broad motives have actuated both men. Mr. Moses has continuously and consistently counted Agriculture among his fields of manifold activity. The happy combination of Mr. Moses and Mr. Sherley quite promptly resulted in 1913 in the incorporation of the now-famous Hampden County Improvement

League, whose large and commodious building on Memorial Avenue is a worthy landmark which now speaks for itself. An important outgrowth of this active philanthropy was the formation in January, 1918, of the Eastern States Farmers' Exchange. Touching further important upward steps of con- tinuous progress came the Eastern States Agri- cultural Credit Corporation, organized August, 1923.

These several remarkable aggregations of man and means has resulted in establishing an "Ex- change" like no other, anywhere, most effectively rendering material aid in modern Agriculture, now employing several hundred persons, and all ac- complishing the same beneficent ends as those anticipated more than twenty years ago by its far- sighted founders.

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EASTERN STATES FARMERS' EXCHANGE

The Eastern States Farmers' Exchange, Incorporated, founded in 1918, established headquarters in West Springfield in 1928. This is a cooperative association of farmers in nine northeastern states. The Exchange operates two feed, four fer- tilizer, and two insecticide production units. It grows seed in states across the country and in foreign lands, and operates 82 regional distribution depots, in- cluding one in West Springfield.

HAMPDEN COUNTY IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE AND JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT

The Hampden County Improvement League, the agency which carries extension service to the people of Hampden County was founded by Mr. Horace A. Moses, on January 25, 1913. The aims of the organization as set forth in the bylaws arc "to foster, encourage aud promote all things in the communities of Hampden County which tend to in- crease the productivity of the soil, or to advance or conserve the educational, civic, moral and religious welfare of the communities." The League has as- sisted in the organization of extension work in twenty-four countics in New England, New York and Pennsylvania. In October, 1925, the League moved iuto a building of its own on the grounds of

the Eastern States Exposition, given by President Moses.

The success of the 4-H Clubs in various parts of the country, prompted Mr. Moses to start some- thing of the kind here.

The movement had the support of prominent men from the start. The late Theodore Vail assisted Mr. Moses in financing it, while President Calvin Coolidge was warm in his indorseuient of the move- ment. The Rotary Clubs of the Nation raised $50,000 to assist Junior Achievement, and the entire coun- try east of the Rocky Mountains, has felt its in- fluence. In 1925, the Junior Achievement Building was erected on the Exposition grounds. This build- ing was also the gift of Mr. Moses.

STORROWTON VILLAGE On The Eastern States Exposition Grounds

Original Colonial and carly American buildings have been restored and grouped around a village green to form Storrowton, the most unique village

in America. Storrowton, the gift of Mrs. James J. Storrow of Boston, preserves for posterity the peace- ful charun and beauty of the early New England Vil-

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Springfield, West Springfield, Chicopee and Longmeadow directory 1958, Part 296

Author: Springfield (Mass.) Publication date: 1958 Publisher: Price & Lee Co. Number of Pages: 1126

Author: Springfield (Mass.)
Publication date: 1958
Publisher: Price & Lee Co.
Number of Pages: 1126