The Press., 1918-10-31
2OMERS

| pr. and Mrs. +. W. Gillette have closed their summer home on Battle street and have returned to New York
 Any one wishing to send Christmas boxes to the soldiers in France may obtain these boxes from Miss E Louise Patten.
 Mrs. C. NJ. Ellis and daughters Beulah and Harriet. have been visit ing Mir. and Mrs Kingsbury of Staf ford Springs.
 Mrs. W. (. PeaSe and Mrs. Angi, Bond have had as recent guests MT i and Mrs. q. r. Wood and Miss Webs ter ct ElNngtoa.
 ' RsIph CAsfree has entered the stu aenes srray tra5ning corps st Storrs | oInver I.y-nsn u5ll also report al tho same fRSrftutioB tA3S week
 < Nrr.s RraoIph Dostal ot l1sdlow is srendfns verersI d&yS wfth her par s.ar>. bs.iRs csned here ny the illness s,s her ts5hef Rev. IoAn = Carts
 AIaevg Joseph Eox, &5 toyTaerly oi SaaezS. ase5 st 1sarap5ea the 2$ The funeral >evvtc,eS were held Sstariay at : p m. The bavsaa ~rSS sn the Rap tiSl cemetery at ESa$, l.oaEmeadow,
 Mir. and Mrs, Glen Smith and son, Wayne. of Springfield. and Mir. and Mrs. Harry Cahoon of New London are spending a vacation in the home of their parents. Mir. and Mrs. Elmer J. Warrington.
 The grammar school at the Center has been closed since last week Wednesday because of the illness of the teacher, Miss Mabelle Gager. All the schools of the town except Battle street and ninth district will remain closed this week.
 Leon c. Staples. supervisor of the schools. has been called to West Haven. Me, by the illness of his daughter, who has appendicitis. Mrs, Staples and three children expects to move to Ellington as soon as the health of their daughter permits. Dwight Thompson has been spend ing a short furlough with his father Rev. W. s. Thompson. He has been transferred from New York to Nor folk. Va. where he will remain for a month installing wireless apparatus in hydroplanes. From there he ex- poets to be sent to Pensacola, Fla, for three months. after which he will go to France t:..
 Mrs. Ida NJ. Gage, who for five years has lived in the home of E. S. Fuller. left Saturday for North Ad- ans to visit her sister. Later she will go to the home of her son, Dr. Lyle Gage. in Hillburn. N. Y. Her departure is regretted as she has teen active in all the social activi- ties of the town. being a directress in the Ladies Aid society and treas urer of the Red Cross.
 Mir and Mrs. Chester w. Pomeroy, Mrs. c. Newton Pomeroy and Mrs. Maude P. Kimball attended the funer- C T land in Agawam. Wednesday. Mrs. Kirkland. who was 90 years old, was born in this town. the daughter of Deacon Oren and Lucinda Pomeroy and she lived here until her marriage to Henry Kirkland. The body was taken to Greenwood cemetery, Brook lyn, for burial.
 The honor flag for the Fourth Lib erty Loan has been received and con- tains one star which indicates that the town is 50 per cent, 9Ter the top. The number of subscribers was 54S; the amount subscribed $59,54O. The quota was $3S,OOO. The committee consisted of Fred c. Davis, chairman E. s. Fuller. c. s. Fuller, B. A. Gager and Chester W. Pomeroy, for this end of the town; for Somersville, A. Gold thorpe. L. A. Gowdy. James Wood and H. E. Thatcher. The woman's com mittee was Mrs. R. L. Keeney, Mrs. A. L. Hurd and Mrs. E. s. Fuller.
 At a meeting Monday evening to organize for the United War Work campaign the following officers were selected: Chairman and secretary, B. A. Gager; treasurer, E. s. Fuller publicity director, Mrs. R. s. Bugbee committee on speakers, Fred c. Davis. The seven cooperating or ganizations will be represented in Somers as follows: Y. M. c. A., F. .C. Davis; Y. W. c. A. Mrs. c. M. Gager; K. of C., Rev. J. S. Curtis; Jewish welfare board, Mrs. c. J. Parsons; war camp community ser vice, c. w. Pomeroy; American Li- brary association, Miss Patten; Sal vation Army, Mrs. E. S. Fuller. Som CTS quota is $2,SSO.
 MT. and Mrs. Daniel Avery have been entertaining Sergeant Irving Hayden, who has returned from France. He enlisted in Springfield, Mass, at the beginning of the war and was among the first Somers boys to arrive in France. He has been in the thick of the fighting. It was his di- vision which was cut off for twelve days from the rest of the company be- fore endorsements arrived. He has been four times decorated for bravery. After a ten-days' furlough he will go to a camp in Texas where he will act as an instructor. He expects to be second lieutenant. Af- ter four months in Texas he expects to go back to France.