Holyoke, Mass

[Adapted from the Springfield Republican, February 19, 1922.]

Pat Shea of Holyoke, member of the world’s champion New York Giants, will leave home this week to report to the McGrawmen.  Shea turned in some first-class work for the Giants in 1921, but this year he hopes to make for himself a regular position on the staff and to take his turn against the other reams around the National circuit.  Last winter Shea was overanxious to make good with the New York club and did too much preparatory work during the winter, with the result that when he had been in the South a while he found that he was overtrained and that his arm wouldn’t respond.  He has taken his training this winter mostly in the form of long walks and short sprints on the road, going out frequently with Jack Hannafin, former Eastern league umpire.  Shea will go to Buffalo for a few days and meet the Giants there, on the way to San Antonio.  The squad is booked to leave New York Sunday.

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[Adapted from the Berkshire Eagle, 21 February 1957.]

A 23-year-old Western Mass. Electric Co. employee was injured at 9:30 this morning when a company truck was truck by a car on Route 143 in Peru, state ploice reported.

Eugene Murphy Jr. of 64 Stoddard Ave., who was in the rear of the parked truck, sustained a cut on the forehead when the vehicle recoiled from the impact.  He was treated by a company doctor.

Two of five Holyoke-area teenagers in the car were injured, neither seriously.  The driver, Donald R. Leclair, 17, of Holyoke, suffered a sprained wrist and bruised knee.  Norman Girouard of Aldenville received bruised to the knee and thigh.  There were treated by Dr. Ralph Mosonella of Dalton.

Other passengers who escaped injury were Raymond Provost of Holyoke and Norman Nadeau and Calde Flardeau, both of Willimansett.  The five were going to a funeral in North Adams.

The electric company truck was parked at the side of the road while crewmen were working on lines in the vicinity.  Warning markers had been placed along the road, state police said.

Trooper Francis Reardon investigated the accident.

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[Adapted from the Berkshire Evening Eagle, 20 February 1946.]

The Holyoke High School basketball team is ranked No. 1 in Massachusetts, according to the Dunkel ratings, released by the Scholastic Sports institute.  Coach Billy Sullivan’s team has a rating of 64 points.  Somerville High is second with 62.4 and Sacred Heart High, Holyoke, eighth.  Westfield is placed 12th.

Sacred Heart High, Holyoke is rated second for Western Massachusetts, Westfield third, Williston, fourth, Worcester Academy, fifth, Ludlow, sixth, Williams High, Stockbridge, seventh, Adams 12th and Drury 20th.

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[Adapted rom the Berkshire Eagle, 18 February 1957.]

Mrs. Elizabeth Reardon Prendergast of Holyoke died Saturday morning in Providence Hospital, following a brief illness.  She was the widow of Patrolman Michael J. Prendergast of the Holyoke Police force.

Survivors include a son, Sgt. Edward M. Prendergast, a state policemen stationed at the Lee barracks.

Mrs. Prendergast was born in Florence, educated in Northampton schools and was a graduate of Northampton Commercial College.  She was an original member of Holy Cross parish, Holyoke.

Services will be conducted tomorrow morning at 8:15 at the John B. Shea Funeral Home, 693 Dwight St., Holyoke, followed at 9 by a Solemn High Mass of Requiem at Holy Cross Church.  Burial will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Northampton.  Friends may call at the funeral home at their convenience.

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[Adapted from the Berkshire Eagle, 17 February 1943.]

Hinsdale.—Mrs. Ella Clark of Main Street received friends and relatives at ther home Sunday in observance of her 85th birthday.  She received flowers and a shower of cards.  Mrs. Clark was born in Holyoke Feb. 14, 1858.  She came to Hinsdale in 1893 with her husband, Wesley Clark, who died in 1920.  Mrs. Clark has a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Sydney Scott of Dalton and two grandchildren, Wesley Clark of Hinsdale and Mrs. Harold Richmond of Dalton.

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