The Press., 1921-11-10
SOMERS

Mrs. w. A. Pease has been a recent guest of her sister, Mrs. Alison Allen in Agawam.
 Fred c. Davis has been entertain ing his brother, Spencer Davis of Philadelphia.
 Miss Edith Battige had as a week. end guest, Miss Mary Isham of Chico pee Falls, Mass.
 Archer L. Hurd and Theodore Gold thorpe, students at Wesleyan Univer- sity, spent the weekend with their parents.
 Orin Linn of Richmond, Va, has been spending several days with his aunt, Mrs. Morris K. Pease in the home of Mrs. M. B. Evans.
 MT and Mrs. Lucius Beardsley of New York City have been recent guests in the home of their parents, MT. and Mrs. Horace Beardsley.
 Walter Button who has been em- ployed at Mountain View Farm, has accepted a position as a foreman on large farm at Harvard, Mass, and left Tuesday for that place.
 Miss Augusta I. Lombard has re- turned to the home of Mrs. w. A. Pease after spending some time in Springfield where she was guest of her nephew, Charles Beckwith.
 Mrs. Emma Wardwell, who has been spending several months with her daughter, Mrs. Albert s. Hulburt, has gone to New Haven to spend the winter with her son Gleason Ward we'll.
 The pastor of the First church and Mrs. Anna Pomeroy were elected to represent the church at the general conference of Congregational churches and the diamond jubilee of the Ameri can Missionary association at New London Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
 A surprise party was given Larry AhIgren in his home on Ellington road Saturday evening in honor of his 57th birthday anniversary. MT. Ahlgren received a gold vest chain and gold cuff links. Guests were present from Springfield, East LongmeadOw and Somers.
 The Sunday school of the Congrega- tional church in Somersville is to start new membership and increased attendance drive to last for three months. There will be two groups, the autoists and the afrmen. The group getting the most points will be entertained by the losing team with a supper.
 After pleading guilty of operating a still for the manufacture of liquor, Joseph Petkis was fined $200 and costs by Justice Herbert E. Thatcher Tues day following his arrest earlier in the evening by the state police who raided his farm. Four gallons of moonshine, two barrels of mash and a large still were seized by the officers. The raid was made by Lieu tenant Frank H. Nichols and Detec- tive Philip w. Flynn of the state police StanisIos Shwoski of Spring field was fined $25 and costs for reck- less driving of an automobile, follow ing an accident in which his machine collided with one driven by Harry Ipinsowiki of Springfield. The latter was fined $10 and costs for failing to have an operators license. These ar rests were made by state policeman.
 All .ONSI1duu LOuI1uS CdI was UuLu- ed in a secluded spot, in the Gulf road Friday under what seemed to be rather suspicious circumstances. Ro- bert Galbraith, the young son of Ernest Galbraith, passed the spot on his way to school in the morning and noticing the car stopped to look at it and man crawled out from under the car and got behind it finally he called to young Galbraith and asked for the nearest gasoline station and started to walk with him, then sud- denly turned back. Later in the day the car was found to be in ashes The car bore the Connecticut regis tration 57,853. The car was stolen from Dwight street in Springfield, Friday. A man from Connecticut, who works in Springfield, had been in the habit of parking his car on Dwight | street and as was his custom did so |