The Press., 1903-12-31
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sOMERs.
 I Miss Jennie Warner of Rockville il spending her vacation with Mrs. Anns Pomeroy.
 Miss Belle Fuller is visiting friends in Attleboro and Boston, Mass. for 8 few weeks.
 Mrs. Archer Cooley and daughter are spending several days at her old home at Sixteen Acres.
 Miss Mary Lawley of Holyoke is spending several days with Miss E. L.. Patton on Broad street.
 Miss Ruby Avery is home from the New Britain normal training school at Manchester for the Christmas vaca- tion.
 MT. and Mrs. Henry J. Shaw spent Christmas at Northampton, Mass, at Mr. Shaw's sisters, Mrs. E. F. Pease.
 The engagement is announced of Ruby Laura, daughter of MT. and Mrs. John B. Kibbe, to Frank Elmer Reed, shipping clerk for Rood & Woodbury of Springfield.
 The funeral of Wm. Brainard of Windsor, formerly of somers, who died Sunday, Dec. 27th, was held in the Congregational church, Somers, Wednesday, at o'clock p. m.
 The house of Charles Gager caught fire from defective fireplace Monday evening. The fire was finally extin- guished by members of the family and neighbors after considerable damage had been done. .--"-
 The following are home for the Christmas vacation: Miss Gertrude Bartlett, teacher in Monson; Miss Sadie Sexton, a student in Monson Academy; Miss Harriet R. Pease, a teacher in the high school in Green field, Mass.
 The Congregational ladies made a change from the usual Christmas tree exercises and gave supper to the Sabbath school, in town hall, with an invitation to all of the children in the parish. Games were played and each of the children was presented with box of candy. .
 The town has been pretty we'll stirred up over the work of some sneak thief or thieves the past week. FL liott E. Kibbe of North Somers lost two good blankets, Augustus Anderson on the north road 8 buffalo robe, William Worthington, who drove a livery team from Springfield to his fathers, opposite Anderson's, lost a wolf robe and lap robe, William O. Pease on Broad street had cinnamon bear robe and wool horse blanket talk en, John Hunt near the Center lost a wool blanket, Daniel Avery, up the had 8 wool blanket stolen. The Junior c. E. society of the Somers Congregational church held it's annual business meeting Sunday ahd elected the following officers: Presi dent, Fred Davis; vice president, Robert Smith secretary and treasurer, Hazel Tompkins; committees-look out, Alice Field, Fred Davis, Hazel Tompkins, prayer meeting, Hermie Dimock, Robert Smith, Susie Baker; Sunday school, Willard Prior, May Chapman, Carleton Taft; missionary, Helen Baker, Spencer Davis, Helen Needham; music, Ullie Dimock, Hazel Tompkins, Helen Needham, Hermie Dimock, May Chapman; social, Forrest Avery, Robert Smith, Fred Davis, Ullie Dimock, Alice Field, Hazel Tomkpins; temperance, Alan Dimock, Spencer Davis, Forrest Avery, Carleton Taft; flower, Isabel Kibbe, Lois Baker, Lila Goodwin, Ina Prior; helping hand, Spencer Davis, Ullie Dimock, Forrest Avery, Susie Baker.
 ELLINGTON.
 Crystal Lake.
 New Years eve there will be so- cial dance in Curtis pavilion.
 The schools are having two weeks vacation for the holiday season.
 Quite 8 delegation of young people enjoyed the dance at Holland Christ mas night.
 Ira H. Lewis, our oldest resident, has been ailing the past week, but is now better.
 Miss Myrtle E. Willis is home from Rockville high school for the Christ mas vacation. .a-e
 Earl Curtis, who underwent an op- eration recently for appendicitis, is gaining rapidly, and it is expected that he will soon recover.
 Owing to the recent stormy Sum- days, preparations could not be made for the proposed Christmas tree, there fore it has been postponed for one