The Press., 1883-05-03
COVENTRY.
sourH COVENTRY.

A. s. PARKER Local a ditor and Business Agent. Te l whom subscriptions and communications for the | REGISTER should be addressed. According to the ssBible man" large percentage of the residents were without bibles previous to his coming. l Tt is reported that J. J. Keon is soon to leave the hotel. having found the bus | mess unremuneratlye.
 l A number of books have been bought for the library.
 l T. s. Gold has sent to the Farmers Club twenty volumes of agricultural re- ports of other states, and pamphlets which are of value to every one who owns even a garden. Case & Lockwood have sent re- ports of Conn. board of agriculture 1882, so that the members of the club can have copies by calling on Martin Parker. The flowers in Mrs. Norman Dun- hams window are beautiful. This is the way Mrs. Aaron Hutchinson grows flow CTS. In the fall she fills old bee hives with compost of chip dirt and barn yard ma- nure, in which she sets her plants, and then places them in sunny chamber which is heated by stove burning great knots of wood and the past winter from one ''hive" of calla she has had twenty blossoms, and from fuchsias, heliotrope, cact, and other plants, she cuts great sprays of flowers to give to friends or to place in church.
 Daily Courant, May 1st {: Department Commander Hyatt of Meriden has issued an order making the following assignments 1 of comrades to decorate the graves of vet erans in all the towns of the state which have no posts of the Grand Army. The assignments are Stafford, Union, Holland, Wilmington, Coventry, Mansfield, Colum- bia, Windham, Scotland, Chaplin and An dover, George P. Lyman, A. D. O.
 Miss L. s. Harold, niece of Mrs. P. H. Peterson, arrived at the "Hale place" from England Monday last. A gentleman from Rochester, N. Y., was the guest of F. H. Peterson last week. He is one of the firm which published Vick's catalogue for 1882, using over sixty tons of paper for the work. -'The world is better for their living" applies to those who make better the I ''footstool. At the Hale place two hum dred entrants have been set, in the garden one hundred choice grape vines are grow ing and the farm is being improved by in- telligent culture.
 The moon delayed, the night was dark It was the first of May The basket hung, the hanger run Got caught, then came away. Those pelargoniums- should use longer word if we knew one whose mean ing is generally known-grown by Mrs. J. B. Carmon are immensely elegant"
 Lyon of Hop River is selling consid- erable of Mapes' fertilizers in small quan- titles, 200 Ib. bags to be tested by our farmers.
 We are mistaken if some of the farms do not show that there was live Farmers Club here the past winter.
 Rose of Ebron' is the name of po- tato just from England.
 If every fisherman would return to the trout brook two thousand of the small fry each spring there would be probabil. ity of luck in the piscatorial line, for Levi Hodges in our state agricultural report, 1882, said in answer to question, eff you should put in 1000 of them, two years hence you would find few of them," and we are safe in saying that nearly ev- cry man in the s. parish, who is under for ty five years of age is fisherman.