The Press., 1911-03-22
soMER,s.

George Durkee and family have moved to Somersville.
 Blanche Fuller is home from Springfield and has diphtheria.
 Mrs. Otis Chapman of Springfield has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Daniel Avery.
 The lower room in the Center school is closed by illness of the teacher. Miss Mabel Avery.
 Mrs. Lamb returned to her home in New Haven, after spending 8 few days with MT and Mrs., Ed. Courtney.
 Horace W. Kibbs has returned to his home in Meriden after spending a few days with his brother, George F. Kibbe
 The annual business meeting of the ecclesiastical society of the Oongrega- tional church will be held in the chapel Saturday afternoon at o'clock. ! The body of Mrs. Hiram Pomeroy, who died in Boston, Mass, on her way home from the opera, was brought to. Somers and buried in the family Hot Dr. Hiram Pomeroy is a broth. CT of Newton Pomeroy. ....
 " F L. Wood escaped what might have been a serious fire, Saturday morning While at breakfast they snIelt smoke, and upon going to the attic found flames pouring up from the fl or. They were atle to put it out without calling for help, but quite a little damage was done by the water running down on to the floor below They think it started from a rats ne st between tEfe, floors.
 'A7 Mir and Mrs. William H. Ohaffee have rt turned to their home in South Manchester, after spending a few days at Kibbe's hotel They were in town to attend the burial of their cousin, Mary Baker Ohaffee, second wife of Edward J Chaffee. The funeral SET. vices were held at their home in New York Tuesday morning, MaIc1 14th Mrs. Chaffoe died from ptomaine poi soning She was taken sick at the bres kfast .b'e Sunday and died that night at 1O'3O MT. Ohaffse's first wife and four children are buried in the West cemetery. where his. recent wife was buried Edward Ohaff4e was accompanied by his son, Edward J. Ohsffee, Jr and daughter and her husband, pr and Mrs Arthur Mel- vile Shrsdy. aud were ent rtained at Mfs H R Kibbs's. @~- -.' @.+...
 Mr. and Mrs. Milton H. Kinney celebrated their golden wedding an niyersary on Tuesday, March 14tb, at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Ernest Oorbin~ There were twelve of the immediate relatives at dinner, and the nieces and nephews, with 8 few friends, pleasantly surpr ised the couple in the evening. MT. and Mrs. Kinney were the, happy recipients of $8O in gold, 8 host of beautiful out fewerss among tham being fifty im- meusa carnations from a friend in Hartford, and two hundred letters, booklets and souvenir postal cards of congratulation and bsst wishes Mir Kinney was engaged in the lumber business in Union for a number of years. In 1867 he moved to :MAsha- paug and became a member of the firm of Corbip, Tourtelotte & Oo., and later Corbin & Kinney, in the business of manufacturing boots and shoes aud dealing in general merohan disc MT. Kinney has heli many town fiji ,es and was deputy sheriff a mum Der of years sIn 1871 Mr Kim ney represented Union in the lsgis lature, that bsing when 1t met in the old state housa. He was also a mem ber of the constitutional convention which was held in Hartford nine years ago. He was married to Martha Moore, daughter of Oharlss Wesley Moore, March IA, 1861, in Somers by Rev. Gaorge A. Oviatt, who was then the pastor of the Somers Con. gregational church.