The Press., 1905-06-21
SOMERS.

R. H. Fisk appeared for the plaintiff.
 sOMERS.
 Roy Wardwell has gone to spend the summer at the Catskill mountains.
 The graduating exercises of Somers high school will be held Friday even- ing.
 Mrs. o. M. Needham and her daugh- ter, Helen, with her mother, Mrs. Eliza B. Pease, left town Tuesday morning for Crescent Beach. where they expect to spend several weeks at the Needham cottage.
 As Dea. B. P. Russell was coming down the mountain on a load of wood the wheels struck a stone, throwing him violently to the ground and mak- ing deep wound on the top of his head and another across his nose. Dr. A. l.. Hurd dressed his wounds.
 Silas B. Cooley, 69. died Thursday at his home on the mountain from shock. He was born in Springfield, Mass, March l, 1886, the oldest son of Jonathan Luke and Mrs. Sarah B.. Kibbe Cooley. When "A years old he went to Pennsylvania as agent for the Hovey silk company of Mansfield. Later he returned to Springfield, and was employed at the United States armory until the sudden death of his father in a runaway, when he was obliged to return home to run the farm. In December, 1864, he mar ried Miss Jane P. Hunt of Somers, and to them three children were born. Mrs. Cooley died August 13, 1882. September II, 1884, he married Miss Ella E. Jones of Ludlow. MT. Cooley was a democrat and has served the town as selectman, as assessor and on the board of relief. He was a mem- Der of Somers grange, one of the organizers of Somers creamery associ- ation, and had acted as one of the directors since the second year of it's existence. He attended and was a supporter of the Congregational church. His ancestry is traced back to Earl Cooley, who came to this country from Denmark, whither he had gone from England because of re- ligious persecution. MT. Cooley leaves a widow and three children, Mattie, wife of Everett Fletcher of Somers; Purlie D. Cooley of Stafford, and Benton G. Cooley; also one sister, Mrs. Merritt Davis, of the Davis district in Somers. The funeral was held Sunday at 1 p. m., at his home, Rev. E. P. Root officiating.
 Ernest Solomon Fuller, only son o1 MT. and Mrs. Charles s. Fuller, and Mabel Carpenter Kibbe, only daughter of MT. and Mrs. Harry G. Kibbe, and the only grandohild of Hon. Henry R. Kibbe, all of Somers, were married Thursday evening in the Congrega tional church at 7.3O o'clock. The decorations for the occasion were by M. Aiken, florist, from Springfield The galleries, which extend on three sides of the church, were trimmed il mountain laurel, the pulpit platform was banked with palms, with white lilies at the entrance of each pew For a half hour previous to the cere mony an organ recital was given by Prof. Abell, director of Hartford Springfield conservatory of music, ant included the following selections Adaigo Cantabile, Hayden; GranC Sonata, E flat, Buck; Evening Sta from Tannhauser, Wagner; Marcl Triumphal, Buck. The bridal part. entered through a covered archwa. the west aisle of the church, to thu strains of the wedding march iron Lohengrin, in the following order Ushers, Robert A. Bartlett of Nev York, Roger s. Morris of Worcester Herbert Fuller of Springfield and S Dwight Percival of Somers; maid O honor, Miss Belle P. Fuller, dressed in white net over nile green, carrying a bouquet of white sweet peas; dowe girls, Mabel Gager of Thompsonvill' and Lougeay Phillips of Philadelphia second cousins of the bride, wearing dresses of white lawn and lace; mat ron of honor, Mrs. J. l.. Phillips O Philadelphia, cousin of the bride dressed in white and pink chiffon carrying an arm bouquet of pink swee peas. The bride followed on the arn of her father. She was attired in { beautiful dress of white satin, witl lace veil caught with orange blossoms and carried a shower bouquet of ~lilie of the valley. At the altar the party was met by the bridegroom and hi best man, Olin F. Herrick, of Auburn dale, Mass, a classmate of the bride groom at Wesleyan university. Th' ceremony was performed by Rev. O H. Ricketts of Norwich, a forme pastor, assisted by the pastor, Rev E. P. Root. The ring service wa used and the. organ played softl. during the ceremony. The part. left the church to the music of Men delssohn's wedding march. Thel followed the reception at Piedmont the home of the brides grandfather