■ The Selectmen of Northampton will put up to the lowest bidder the new bridge at Kingsley’s mill to be rebuilt this season; also, a building at the poorhouse to be erected and completed as soon as possible. Plans of the above may be seen at the house of Oliver Warner.
■Miss Fiske will commence the spring quarter of her school on Monday, the 11th of April, where young ladies may be taught orthography, reading, writing, English grammar, ancient and modern geography, arithmetic, history, astronomy, rhetoric, logic, elements of criticism, natural and moral philosophy, chemistry, and composition, upon the same terms as they have theretofore been taught in her school.
■Through a clerical error that Dr. George E. McPherson, superintendent of the Belchertown State School, terms “unfortunate,” the family of George La Foe of Florence, a patient at the institution, has just learned of his death and burial, which occurred nearly three weeks ago. In response to a query today, Dr. McPherson said that he was “breaking in a new office staff and could not be expected to be on the grounds every minute.”
■Paul Finn, the four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Finn of Prospect Street, sustained several cuts and bruises about the head and face, when the automobile in which he was riding with his mother figured in a collision with a Hatfield-bound trolley car at King and Spring streets shortly after noon today.
■Northampton Police are investigating an incident at the Jackson Street School in which a bag of $35 in lunch money was apparently thrown on the roof of the school. Richard Smith, assistant to the superintendent of schools, said yesterday that the department as yet does not know how the bag of money found its way to the roof, or who put it there.
■Robert J. Bollenbach of 26 May Jane Lane, Florence, was recently sworn in as a deputy sheriff of Hampshire County by High Sheriff John F. Boyle. Bollenbach is assistant vice president at the Holyoke National Bank, a member of the Robert Morris Credit Association, and an alumnus of the Graduate School of Banking at Williams College.