The Press., 1885-09-17
SOMERS.

Key. c. H. Gleason and family re- turned home from their vacation last week. MT. Gleason takes his rest in the north woods at the head waters of the Connecti- cut river. Mrs. Gleason has been spend ing the summer at her fathers in New Hampshire.
 Mir. Frank Howe of Ellington has just finished an artesian we'll for Mir. George Keeney. Water was struck in two veins, one at IS feet and one at 23 feet.
 Mir. Halsey Hough has just returned from a six weeks vacation, the first in three years. His place as coachman was supplied by MT. Orvello Fields.
 MT. Herbert Cobb spent the Sabbath at his sisters, Mrs. Gleason. s
 On account of the sickness and death of one of it's members. the Social Guild postponed indefinitely the peach festival which was announced for Sept. 9th.
 MT. Lucius Kibbe has just returned from visit to his sons at Chicago. pr. Hiram Pomeroy and family re- turned home, last Friday week, from Flu rope, where they have been spending sev- eral years. In the absence of the mission ary, Dr. Clark, at Prague, in Austria, Dr. Pomeroy had charge of the mission. This is the same station which Dr. Bissell had charge of before he returned to this coun- try. More recently Dr. Pomeroy has been practicing in the hospitals on the conti- nent. a
 The new underground barn which MT. Wm. Billings is to build will have a ''firm foundation" being based on the "solid rock"
 MT. Abial Pease will occupy ''Enos- villa" this winter, as Eye ancient house. will be removed to allow the completion of MT. Chaffee's grounds.
 Mrs. Chas. s. Cooley of Gilmore City is paying visit at her husbands old home in North Somers.
 Mir. Benjamin Brooks rode down to Somers on his bicycle from Holyoke, twen- ty-three miles, in three hours, last week. He IS taking orders for Gen. Grants book, and says it sells well.
 MT. Mahlon. Gowdy started out this week to look after the whip trade through a part and Connecticut and Pennsylvania during the winter. MT. Gowdy is well up in the merits of the whip, although this is his first trip on the road. He will travel by rail.
 MT. Austin Spencer, who has just been spending his vacation at his home in Semersville, hung the paper on the walls of MT. Geo. Keeney's new house.
 Mrs. Lincoln Childs and two childrer are home from the west, where she hai been living since her marriage.
 MT. H. R. Kibbe is thinking of build ing an addition to his barn.
 The new forty foot addition to tn, Keeney's mill is completed, and the ma chinery is set and in running order. Thi will give the mill much greater capacit, and insure even better goods than wer turned out before.
 pr. Edwin 0. Bissell and wife cele brated their silver wedding at Hartfor, last week Monday. Mrs. Bissell is daughter of the late Dea. Owen Pomeroy MT. Newton Pomeroy and family, Dr. Hi ram Pomeroy and family, and Mrs. Owe Pomeroy and family, all of Somers, wer present.
 Mrs. Edwin Sikes of Buffalo has bee spending short time at Oak Farm.
 MT. Harry Cole, of the firm of Balct Price < Co.,, of Brooklyn, is visiting at MI B. l.. Hurlburt's.
 Mi. Abe Simpson has completed hi engagement with MT. Henry Stimson, an started last week for the west, where will be located near Chas. o. Pease. M John Malony has taken his place on th meat route.