■Lewis Phelps, having purchased the stand at Robert’s Meadow recently owned by Nash & Allen, begs leave to inform his friends and the public that his machines are now in good order and ready for carding and dressing cloth. Customers in town can have their wool carded by leaving it at the store of Dea. E. S. Phelps, where it will be returned when finished.
■Nathaniel Fowle has just received and has for sale next door to the post office in Northampton, a good assortment of watches and jewelry. Also, watches of all kinds are carefully repaired and warranted.
■Work was begun today on laying a new sidewalk on Main Street from Boyden’s restaurant to the corner of Old South Street. This walk was laid several years ago, but has heaved many times because of the frost, become uneven, and has been a dangerous place for pedestrians.
■Fred Davis of Florence and George Spencer of Bay State ran into a school of “pumpkin seeds” while fishing in the Old Bed Saturday afternoon. They caught 60, some of them exceptionally large for that kind of fish. They also captured several perch.
■For more than a century cigar leaf has been produced in the Massachusetts section of “Tobacco Valley” that is the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusetts and Connecticut. And once again the crops of cigar-leaf types are being harvested — the shade-grown and Connecticut Havana Seed.
■Pioneer Home Sponsors Inc. will appeal the decision of the Northampton Zoning Board of Appeals which blocked the construction of a 150-unit housing development on Baker Hill. Last Wednesday the Board of Appeals denied Pioneer Home sponsors a permit to build the low- and moderate-income development.