The Press., 1915-08-04
SOMERS.

SOMERS.
 The Boy scouts were in camp at Crystal lake last week.
 Mir. and Mrs. Horace Beardsley are entertaining their son from New York city.
 The annual Sunday School picnic will be held Thursday at Riverside park.
 Miss Evalene l.. Smith is enter . taining Miss Dorothy Granger of Rock ville.
 Miss Lillian Peak has been spend ing several days with friends in Palmer.
 The Misses Lena and Alice Russell have returned home from trolly trip to Boston.
 MT. and Mrs. F. G. Meade and two children have gone to Crescent Beach for two weeks.
 Several members of the Somers grange attended the Pomona grange in Vernon yesterday.
 E.C. Sherman and Chester Worthing- ton are on several days automobile trip to Providence, R. I.
 Phillis and Margaret Koehler of Springfield are visiting their cousins, Helene and Eleanor Percival.
 Lester Baker has returned home after spending two weeks at Lake Azonia in the Adirondaoks.
 Dr. Hurd has broken ground for a house to be erected on his property south of the home of Leslie Lovett.
 Mrs. Martin Lucas and daughter, Mary, have gone to Troy, N. Y., to attend the wedding of Mrs. Lucas $ niece.
 Miss Marjorie Moore accompanied the Campfire girls of Somersville to Crystal lake Monday, where they will spend 10 days in camp.
 Mrs. M. J. Hogan is entertaining Mrs. Ella Collins of Springfield who expects soon to go ito the Berkshires accompanied by Mrs. Hogan.
 Mrs. $. N. Richmond is seriously i'll at her home on Main street. She is being cared for by her daughter, Mrs. Merrick Worthington.
 The Misses Nellie and Dorothy Mcknight have returned to their home in Ellington, after spending several days with Mir. and Mrs. Horace A. Sikes.
 Julian Pomeroy has returned to the home of his daughter, Mrs. George Pirnie of Springfield, after spending several weeks with his niece, Mrs. W. A. Pease.
 Rev. Earle H. Thayer, pastor of the Congregational church, has gone to spend the month of August in Moravia and Groton, N. Y, where he will join his wife. Miss Marion Lockwood is visiting relatives in Hartford, going with her sister Mabel. who has been spending several days with her parents, MT. and Mrs. Edward Lockwood.
 Mrs. H. R. Kibbe, MT. and Mrs. H. M. Gager and MT. and Mrs. Harry L. Burdiok of Chicopee Falls have gone to Avalon, N. J., where they will spend August at the Kibbe cottage.
 Miss Ruth Dimock has returned home after visiting MT. and Mrs. Allen Dimock of Chicopee. MT. and Mrs. Dimock returned with her and spent the week -end with their parents, MT. and Mrs. William Dimock of Battle street.
 Miss Grace Holmes was pleasantly surprised in her home Saturday night by a number of friends in honor of her birthday. The occasion took the form of a farewell party, as Miss Holmes is about to leave for Canada, where she will make her home with an uncle.
 George Baker Pease, 65, died at his home in the 9th district Monday afternoon from injuries received by being thrown from a wagon load of oats Saturday afternoon. MT. Pease was born in Somers, May IS. 1860, the son of Amos and Marriette (Moore) Pease, and was educated in the public schools of the town and in Wesleyan academy, Wilbraham. Forty-three| years ago he married Miss Sarah Farnham of Ellington. MT. Pease was always stanch republican in politics and had been assessor and constable, and for six years was first selectman- He had always been a | farmer. He is survived by his widow, two sons, Fred A. and Arthur B.. three grandchildren, Benjamin, Donald and Amos Pease, all of Somers, also one sister, Mrs. Benjamin A. | iager of Brooklyn, N. Y. The funeral will be held at the home to- lay at 2.30 o'clock. Rev. W. Sher- nan Thompson will officiate.
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