The Press., 1917-09-13
SOMERS.

SOMERS. Miss Elizabeth Barron has returne e' home after a vacation at Sound View
 l Mrs. Bertha Miles of Springfield
 has been visiting her sister, Mrs. II
 A. Prior.
 Mir. and Mrs. Frank Chapel have
 been entertaining Mir and Mrs. Arthur sikes of Sufield.
 Mrs. 0. D. Pease is entertaininl for few weeks Mrs. Mark Wood
 wood of California.
 Mrs. Marcus Woodland of Omaha, Neb., is the guest of Mrs. Hattie Pease of Battle street.
 I Miss Leona Robbins of Orcuttvillt has been visiting at the~iaenae of MT. and Mrs. Glen Smith. ELK.
 Miss Isabel Bugbee underwent an operation to remove her tonsils at the Springfield hospital Tuesday.
 Miss Lydia Goodwin and Miss Clara Richardson of Birmingham are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fields. ?
 Mrs. Walter B. Whitlock was given surprise party Monday evening in her home in honor of her birthday
 Mrs. Frank Basaett and three ciril- dren of Thompsonville have been visiting her sister, Mrs. Hattie Doyle.
 Miss Agnes Barron has gone to Danbury where she will resume her duties as teacher in the public school there.
 Dr. and Mrs Henry Gillett have been entertaining Miss Nellie Luther Fowler, a teacher in the Pennington school.
 Miss Carrie Noble. teacher in the Battle street school, has returned to the home of MT. and Mrs. A. Vail Smith.
 MT. and Mrs. Roland Ellis and little son, Bernard, are spending a weeks vacation with MT. Ellis parents in West Stafford.
 MT. and Mrs. Walter Ide and son, Whitman of Springfield were week.. end guests in the home of Mrs. Ide's sister, Mrs. Daniel Avery. ..
 MT. and Mrs. Leonard Barton and their little daughter, Evelyn, spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. Barton's parents, MT and Mrs. George Hedges.
 Eleanor Peroival, the youngest daughter of Mir. and Mrs. s. Dwight Percival, celebrated her seventh birth day by entertaining a party of friends at her home.
 Miss Grace Baker of Westfield has returned to the home of Mrs. Arthur Pease after passing the summer at her home She has resumed her teaching in the 9th district school.
 H Dougall has returned to his home in Philadelphia, after spending week in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles M. Gager. His daugh- ter. Miss Sarah Dougall, is remaining to spend a week more in Somers as the guest of Mrs. Gager. ...:. ..
 Joseph Smith of Chicago, who has been visiting in the homes of w. B. Whitlock and A. Vail Smith, has, gone to Croton Falls, N. Y., in,l company with his brother, A. VaiR Smith. where they will join their other two brothers, Arthur Smith off East Windsor Hill and Mercy Smith of Newark, N. J., and together take a trip through the Catsk ill mounta ins, where they lived in youth. .,s
 A meeting was held Monday after noon at Piedmont hall to organize an auxiliary to the Rockville Chapter of the Red Cross. Ladies from Rock vile were present The meeting was we'll attended and the following officers were elected: Chairman, Mrs. w: B. Whitlook; secretary, Mrs. Raymond, s. Bugbee; treasurer, Mrs Ida M. Gage; chairman of knitting and com fort committee, Mrs. A. Vail Smith chairman of work committee, Mrs. \ w. B.. Whitlock.
 At the republican caucus held Mon. day, the following candidates were nominated: Moderator, W. Sherman Thompson; clerk, Charles s, Fuller; assessor, Ernest s. Fuller; board. of relief, Fred A. Pease, Fred L.. Wood; selectmen, Albert s. Hnlburt, Her bert E. Thatcher; town clerk, treasurer and agent of town deposit fund, Charles s Fuller; auditor, Raymond s. Bugbee; grand jurors, James Wood, John Hunt, Percy A.'Kibbe; collector of taxes, Everett P. Russell; con- stables, Norman s. Wilson, Albert s. Hulburt; registrar of voters, Dr.. Alonzo L. Hurd; town school com mittee, Louis A. Gowdy; library. directors, W. Sherman Thompson, s. ; Dwight Peroival, Clifford J. Parsons.
 At the democratic caucus held Mon- day, the following candidates were nominated: Moderator, H. s. Steven son; clerk, Glen E. Smith; assessor, Charles Ohaffee; board of relief, James Meaoham, Edmund H. Pease ;, selectmen, B. D. Cooley, Fred Worth ington; town clerk and treasurer and agent of town deposit fund, Ohagles s. Fuller; auditor, Daniel l.. Eflis grand jurors. William MoMullen, HI. s. Stevenson, Jerome l.. Lee; col lector of taxes, Everett F. Russell constables, D. B. Cooley, Steven Ledger; registrar of voters, Jerome Lee; town school committee to fill vacancy for one year), Glen E. Smith library director, Fred Fields; library director (to fill vacancy for one year). Glen E. Smith.
 WALES.
 The old Shaw mills which have been closed down tor year are soon A. nR n