■E. Hunt has just received a large supply of Pyroligneous Acid, for curing beef and hams without smoke. This valuable article is warranted of the first quality. Much might be said showing its superior qualities for curing meat, but as its reputation is now sufficiently established, nothing further is thought necessary than a reference to those in this vicinity who used in the past season.
■For sale, the homestead of the late Josiah Dwight, Esq., on Pleasant Street, with 1¾ acres of productive land well stocked with choice fruit. The house is spacious, convenient, in good repair, and accommodated with good out buildings, a never failing well of water, and rainwater cistern. At a trifling expense it may be fitted for a pretty extensive boarding house.
■Scores of his former associates in the Home Culture Club, the Northampton Horticultural Society, and friends viewed the coffin of the late George W. Cable, noted author and one of Northampton’s most distinguished citizens, as it lay in state today in the building which he founded. Covered with the flowers he loved so well and guarded by a detail of Boy Scouts, the grey casket formed a striking picture as it was placed in Carnegie Hall at the PeopleÕs Institute.
■Mrs. George Burt of Westhampton requests the Gazette to correct an item which appeared yesterday, stating that her husband figured in an automobile accident, in which Miss Rose Courtemanche of Easthampton was injured. Mrs. Burt says her husband was not in Northampton yesterday. The Gazette received its information from reliable sources and considered it authentic.
■C. Roger Davis of 67 West St., has assumed the duties of bibliographer at Smith College’s Neilson Library. Davis, 31, who spent the last 2 years as bibliographer of North American publications at the University of Virginia, will oversee the development of collections in the humanities and the social sciences at the Neilson Library.
■Northampton elementary teachers last night sent a petition to the school committee for more help with their science program. The teachers pointed out that Science Coordinator Frederick R. Morrison comes to their classes only once a month this year. Last year, he and science teacher Walter R. Crowther visited all the city’s elementary science classes once every two weeks with demonstrations and lessons that supplemented the regular fare.