The Press., 1884-08-21
COVENTRY.
SOUTH COVENTRY,


 A S. Parker, local editor and business manager of Coventry Local Register.
 There is man here who aspires to be weather prophet, and so true are his predictions that whenever he says day will be fair we wear our rubbers, or a storm, we leave our umbrella at home. So when, two weeks ago, he told us to write down the 17th for frost, we began to look up our summer clothing-and we needed it, for the sssrmmer, which has been so like winter painted green, began to be a true summer, and Monday the mercury, when exposed to the full heat of the sun, ran up to 110o.
 Mrs. Anah Hempsted, who is near the nineties, is visiting in town.
 -Silas W. Loomis is canvassing for s'Twenty Years in Congress" by Jas. G. Blaine, from the press of Henry Bill, Nor wich-'snot because he is republican, for MT. Loomis is 8 democrat-but because the book is so reliable and written in so entertaining manner"
 People who wish to introduce Italian l Queens into their hives need go no farther than Andover to procure the bees, for Ed win H. Cook of that place raises them for sale, and by advertising and attending to 1 his business has built up quite an exten- sive trade. The news of the death of Rev. W. w. Ellis reached us too late for mentien in last weeks paper, but, as his last, work was done at this place it is fitting that we write of that work. He came here in the spring of 1881, sent because the Methodist church needed @ real worker, the society being in debt, and this remark was then made, eff any one can relieve the church of its burden, that man is Brother Ellis, y and the burden of debt was removed by his efforts soliciting funds, and by his gifts. ''The society has had a hard time, , remarked the pastor, ''and my apportion- ment has not been paid, but I will give credit to the society for the whole amount and report paid in full to conference" was another way in which he helped. Wis iting the sick was part of pastoral duty which he never failed to do, and he was one of the few who knew just how long to stay, what to say, quieting fears and help ing the physician, for he did not expatiate on the extreme danger the patient was in, thinking to scare people to repentance, but he would talk of the good things given in this life, and when he prayed remem- bered that one of the blessings promised by the kind Father was ''length of days. , A lover of flowers, he loved to ''make Gods footstool more beautiful" " and it was fitting that when Bro. Ellis was laid tc rest, his grave should be lined with green and the earth which was to cover him from us be strewn with flowers. He was true friend of his people little children always looked into his face with confidence Though not great preacher according as the world uses the word great, yet his hearers saw at once that Che believed thai of which he spake." "Works are evel more than words," and it was his life tha convinced people of the certainty of chris tianity. We are glad that he ever ivet among us-glad to have known of his sin cere sympathy, and now he has been lai6 at rest in Stafford, his grave will be te many of us place of pilgrimage, @ sacred spot. Our people sympathize with his be reaved wife, for We know of her great loss l -Wm. A. Lathrop has been appointed tdeputy Sheriff
 Jas. Huntington and family of Wood bury are visiting in town.
 At the Congregational church Sunday morning Rev. c. H. Bullard of Hartfore spoke in behalf of the American Tract So ciety in the afternoon heswent to NortE Coventry, consequently the evening ser vice was omitted
 No preaching at the Methodist church next Sunday, ,on account of camp meeting The report was current Tuesday morn ing that Will Daley, had appropriated $1OO from his mother. $50 from his brother and had departed for California. NORTH COVENTRY.
 Miss Lizzie Root is spending few days with her brother in New York.
 The Sunday school and others held { picnic last Thursday in the grove just eas of the cemetery. felt here
 WELLINGTON. (coRREsPoNDBNcE.)
 70. T. Preston has sold Frank Grants farm, the Darling place, near the Hill, tt Albert Dege, of Palmer, Mass. A few persons attended the Bible meeting of Whiton's grove, Westford, yes terday.
 l, A party from here went to Square Pond fishing last week. They reported { pleasant time.
 Sewing society at the conference room this p. m.
 Henry Hanover, from the west, ha. been visiting his brother, Ariel. MT Hanover is boss over four sections-6O( m1les-of the Ohio < Miss. R. R. H. pays out $25, 900 monthly to his hands. -Sereno Stanton has swapped places with Nelson Towne. Towne's place is il Holland, near the depot.
 Ed. Still and wife and George ant Dwight Church, with their families, hav' , been visiting at Luther Clark's. The Macfarlane and Neil civil suit wa , adjourned last Monday on account of law point raised about the legality of tn r construction of the 'ssherif's jury" callet } out to sit with the justice. . -Wm McVay has bought the Bislan' 3 house, near Daleville, with some part o the farm.
 Among the strangers in town at pres ent are Misses Georgia and Hattie Leon ard of Cambridge, Mass. at Mrs. Leande HuI's; Miss Emily and Master Johni 2 Seagrave of Maynard, Mass, at MT. Orms bees.
 Mrs. Chas Robinson and her two lii tie daughters, from Providence, arrived g the Congregational parsonage last evening Everett Richardson is express ager of the Am. Ex O. from Holyoke Springfield. Mrs. Ariel Hanover has bee g visiting Mrs. Richardson, her daughter the past week at Springfield.