Jonathan T. Throop would inform the public that he has taken a shop a quarter of a mile from the meeting house in Hatfield, where he intends manufacturing cabinet furniture of all kinds. Those who favor him with their custom may depend on having their work made with good materials and workmanship.
W. M. Smith & Son offer for sale the real estate which they now occupy, pleasantly situated on King Street in Northampton, about sixty rods north of the meeting house, consisting of a large and convenient house, barn, woodhouse, and other out-buildings, and one and a half acres of land, with an orchard of choice fruit and an excellent garden.
While working on a new sewer main at North Elm and Prospect streets yesterday, L. F. Woodruff of Bridge Street, a plumber, narrowly escaped serious injury when a bank of rain-soaked red sand caved in upon him, burying him almost to the eyes.
Edward Poudrier, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Poudrier of Cross Hill, Florence, was struck by an automobile in front of the engine house Saturday evening. The boy was taken into Morrissey’s barbershop and Dr. G. J. Hickey was called. The little fellow had a severe cut over the right eye and was badly bruised.
Preliminary review of proposed budget cuts for the University of Massachusetts shows that between 350 and 400 employees on the Amherst campus or about 10 percent of the state-authorized campus workforce could lose their jobs if the cuts are implemented by the state Legislature, according to State Rep. James Collins, D-Amherst.
Some 120 jobs at Northampton State Hospital would be eliminated if a 20 percent proposed state budget cut goes into effect, Department of Mental Health officials are predicting. Northampton State Hospital Asst. Supt. William Goggins said that the personnel cut would be devastating to services.