The Press., 1908-01-22
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 7 ll--s-: - = - s0MERs- - IF Mrs. E. B. Little ,entertains. th
 Ladies' Aid goeietyt: Thursday after
 noon and evening.
 Mrs.. Ann Lee. and Mrs., Harrie Newton have returned home from 1.
 fortnigr t'ef fKisit with. rNiends in Pal mer.
 Miss Lena Pease' of the business
 college. spring6elt. - vigited hel IgrandmOther, MT. = -UyTus Lee. an6 aunt, Misa Alice Lees on Sunday-
 Howard Pease recently of Boston,
 who has been in town vistting hi mother. Mrs. .J., O.. Lee, and bSothert at the farm in the ninth district, re, turned Saturday to- SagamaEe. x zss-e.t
 Delegates of Somers grange to state grange held in. Hartford last week were Mrs. H. A. Sikea, MT. and Mrs. s. D. Percival and Miss Julia Chap man. Mir. and Mrs George F. Kibbe and Mrs. eikes wereainitiated fin the
 
 Edward B. ;Littfs<4Tas' felt obliged since locating inc Worcester to resign the guardianship of Miss Laura Kibbo, who is 'at preseilt being earedsfors in Hartford, and William H. Billings of lSo1DefsSif1e is'now lappointsaE to dS. sunnea the duty. s's:< 5 <sfs@ss %'s's t.'f'
 Lester W. Rdsbel1 has ja just st ,rsetdtrned from d trip to Syracuse, N. Y. where he bought five head of registered Hol- stein stock, four heifers, and one bull.
 He had the misfortune on. reaching West Springfield. to get his hand seri- ously injured: lin.the freight car door.
 The town of soim,1esrs has received a bill of $40 from A.sJ Weaver of Hartford, for expenses .iincurred in having his 1ittle"daughter take the Pasteur treatment in New York. She was bitten while visiting at her amt, Mrs, Albert Hurlburt'ss by their dog, which was immediately killed and found to be suffering from rabies.
 Denis Gardner, who has been living on the farm s., at North somers known as the John RsoQurns place, near. the scaptic, Nith his mother, for some time, has 1ought of. Dr.. William B.. Woods the old Charles Pease property lat Pine Knob, consisting of. about l 5 acres of sland, with buildings. He intends. to take possession right away ~z Last March the post office and store u of the Fuller -Bugbee Co. was entered by burglars, and among. other things taken were: private: papers, >: notes, mortgages and bonds amounting to $4O00 belonging to w. P' Fuller, senior partner of the firm. While some of the men employed by Amos .Rrudge of Hazardville were recently ohopping in. the woods near, Pine Point they found rural delivery mail pouch, with, pocketbook, with MT. ,, uller 's'Hame inaide,asnd the remnants of hezpapers, some of which were destroyed by long exposure. sa
 John Chaptliaf, aged -s5 years, a l+yeterap. of the civil war and one of Somers eldest scitizens, died Tuesday of the infrmitiessof age, and funeral 17servieeswe held at. the Snffield Con- I gregatienaf sehapets last Friday after- ] noons ssMf.' Chapman was n native of suffsld and:enIisted from that place in. Go: B, f6tK Conn. Vols, sth army lporps, and served from the. battle toi tAntietam until the close of the war. For l | months he vas, confined in fAndersonvillapFi andsnffered sueb fRdrdships that ~hS never fully re. covered He met with his regiment at: their reunion in Hartford last year. He was 8 member of Converse post, EG: A. R., of Windsor Locks. He leaves a wife and three children. Al I5bert=M A4 Joseph l. both of Hartford land Mis- Charles H. Baker of .Semers. 44. ,.,s : sROGKYILLE. a-.. ..: s..s.. P, William Hv.sPrescott has turned over to trustees thes sum of $50. GOO, to serve as at1fuelens for fund for the erection of $ cfty hospital It is to IE,be known as the William Henry Pres oott Fund. T !: v. The trustees of the fund are: Francis T. Maxwell, Arthur T. Bissell, Miss J. Alice Maxwell, Alvah N. .Belding and Thomas W. Sykes. In |'addition to this gift; MT: Prescott s family will contribute as site. having completed negotiations for the Gaynor property un Prospect street. i.s.4This will be purchased and constitute a gift from Mrs. William H. Prescott, their son. Francis K. Prescott and their, daughter.y Mrs. Eliza Prescott EChilds, of Holyoke.~.T yts,.-