■Arrangement for the celebration of the 4th of July in Northampton have been finalized. The procession will form at eleven o’clock and proceed to the meeting house, where an oration will be delivered by Mr. Osmyn Baker. After the services are closed, the citizens will return to Warner’s Hotel, where a dinner will be provided. Tickets may be had at Mr. Warner’s bar.
■Under the sign of Mansion House, the building formerly occupied by Noah Webster, Esq., in Amherst, has been recently furnished in a style of elegance and convenience for a tavern and temporary boarding house. The proprietor hopes to make it an agreeable resting-place to those who travel for health and pleasure, as well as to others.
■The conferring of honorary membership in the Northampton High School Alumni Association upon Principal Emeritus Clarence Burgess Roote in recognition of his long and valued service to the school, was the outstanding feature of the 36th annual reunion attended by more than 400 members in the school auditorium last evening.
■The following Bridge Street school pupils were not absent during the school year: grade 2, Raymond Lucey; grade 3, Stella Niedbalski; grade 4, Helen Krufka, Nellie Paul, Charles Niedzwiecki, William Smith, Florence LaFleur; grade 5, Cecylia Jamrog, Irene Jamrog, Agnes Moriarty, Anthony Kunda.
■Beardsley’s Café Restaurant, formerly located on Button Street, opened at a new location at 140 Main St. Monday, the former site of Ryback’s Pastry Shoppe. The restaurant has expanded its menu of French and southern European style dishes, but has kept former house favorites, according to one of the owners, Charles Belyea.
■The Rev. Walter L. Rudy, minister of the First Church of Christ for the past six years, will leave that post for a church in Bristol, R.I. Mr. Rudy submitted his resignation at a special meeting for the church’s board of deacons. Mr. Rudy is a native of Florence and a graduate of Northampton High School and the University of Massachusetts.