The Press., 1911-02-15
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 Albert Pease has taken Q position with Squier & Oo
 Miss Helen Moulton of New Yo' oity is visiting her parents, MT. and Mrs. H D Moulton, at South Mon- son.
 A. N. Gaouette has leased the Frank Pease farm near Cedar Swamp, and will move his household effects there in the near future
 Mrs. Best, who has been visiting her parents, MT. and Mrs. Horace Squier, on Washington street, has re- turned to her home in Boston.
 William Harrington, formerly of Wales, was buried in No. l cemetery this morning. Mr. Harrington died at Oklahoma. His wife, who was Miss Josie A. Ohilson of Wales, and his daughter are both buried in No. 1.
 Edward Clark of Palmer, employ ed by the Somerset Woolen company, broke his leg between the kuee and ankle Saturday, the 4th, about Il, while at work in the mill The acoi- dent was caused by his stepping through a skuttls. He was taken to his home in Palmer.
 William Watson, the oldest male resident of the town, is seriously i'll at the home of his son, Daniel Wat son, on the North Monson load. MT. Watson, who is S5 years old, was presented with @ gold. headed cane about six months agI on account of being the oldest male resident.
 Mrs. 0. W. Jackson has returned from Springfield, where she was called by the illness and death of her father, Wm Skinner Wood Mir. Wood, who was 85 years of age, had been a frequent visit>r in town until failing health confined him to his home. Besides Mrs. Jackson, two other daughters and 8 son survive him.
 The seleotmen will give a public hearing in Memorial hall Feb. 23, at 30 in the evening, on a petition of the Southern New England Railroad company for a right of way through the northern part of the town. This is the proposed new railroad betwee Palmer and Providence, and a pa,t of the proposed line, between Palmer and Brimfi9ld, runs through a corner of Monson.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Toomey, cock at Oushman Hall, has caused thrill all over New England and incidentally helped the space writers to an honest dollar. Mrs Toomey attended the concert by the Tufts glee club last Friday evening 9th, and was taken ill. She returned to her room at the dor. m tory, and says she was disturbed Going boldly out to investigate, she found seven or eight masked men engaged in taking the oil painting of Frank Oushman out of its frame. All of the villains had whiskers, and as a window unfortu. nately had been left open on this fl DOT, the wind blowing through said whitk ITS produced that peculiar, un' csnny, signing sound so terrifying in the night hours. Unlike Simeon K Baldwin, that grand old jurist of the state of Connecticut. and Charles J. Hughes, whom Willie Hearst face tiously termed the feather duster of York state, the whiskers on these diabolioal disturbers did not match their cravats, and the cook knew at once that the boards were forged. The cook was unarmed She did not even- have a couple of her own doughnutt with her or 8 hat pin. Did she falter? Havs a care. Jack Daltonl
 "Hers not to reason why,
 Hers but to do or die,
 Burglars to her were pie,
 Burglars had blundered. JuSb WHdb uhppouou uuAihk bho hoA' few minutes is net absolutely clear Asked by Dick Hughes to press hel hands hard against her temples and remember what she could, as it wat worth two cents line, Mrs. Toomey did her best. She grappled with one of the men. They threw her down stairs, tore her clothes eff, cut her hair, slapped her wrist twice and criticised the coffee. The cocks story was easily verified. The staiIs down which she was thrown were there, the haIr cut if matched, and the picture was cut out of the frame The picture was uniDjured in the terrible struggle, bat 1t was easy enough to put that in 8 safe place before playing the second half. Mrs Toomey has left town. The Pinkerton man who came here to investigate advanced the theory that she cut the picture out herself. This view of the case Mrs. Toomey abso. lutely refused to entertain. The gen. eral opinion of those oonversant with the circumstances Is that the Pink ST. ton man was exactly right in his tho orV