■Ira Atkins continues to keep at No. 1, Town Hall, a full assortment of saddles, bridles, and harnesses, together with a large quantity of trunks, a variety of military work, officers’ and soldiers’ patent leather caps, belts, a general assortment of whips, etc. Chaise trimming and repairing done in the neatest manner at the shortest notice.
■Worcester Ale! John and Christopher Clarke have been appointed agents of the Worcester Brewery, and have received a quantity of ale, which is offered to tavern keepers and others at a reasonable price.
From the intercourse between this town and vicinity and the town of Worcester, the inhabitants generally know the superior quality of the Worcester beer.
■Automobile owners who rolled their machines out of the family garage and proceeded to their favorite filling stations, were greeted with another two cent raise in the price of gasoline today, the second increase in 10 days. The latest increase brings the cost of the precious fuel to 22 cents per gallon.
■A slight blaze, believed to have started when frozen water pipes were being thawed out by a paper torch, did damage estimated about $100 to the basement of the old jail building on Michelman Avenue about 9:30 this morning. The building, a wooden frame structure, is owned by Michelman brothers.
■More than 600 angry consumers gathered in Easthampton last night to protest rising electricity costs and threatened to withhold partial payment of their utility bills. Hisses, boos, groans and cheers frequently punctuated the three-hour meeting in the Park School auditorium as local residents grilled Western Massachusetts Electric Co. officials for an explanation of price increases.
■The explosion that shook a downtown building Sunday night was an attempted arson, authorities said today. Susanne Naegele who operates the Naegele Bakery in the building said she was working alone in her bakery at the time of the blast. She said she heard someone in the building immediately before the explosion, and just after the blast she heard a car pull away from the rear of the building.