The Press., 1884-05-01
COVE NTRY.
SOUTH COVENTRY.


 Films are being set out to fill the spaces on Cross-st., where those set by Messrs. Whitney had died.
 The Bidwen hotel property is about to change owners.
 The mill of Barber & Keynon is to be enlarged by building on forty feet in length the size of the present factory and raising the whole one story. J. J. Franklin is do- ing the work.
 Schools were not in session Friday. The teachers attended the institute at Will limantic. A very interesting session is re- ported. ..
 Adjourned town meeting, Saturday p. m., to hear town treasurer's report.
 Raids were made on Jerry Young and the Daley Bro's., who are supposed to sell liquor, Saturday evening last. A small quantity was found at Young's; at Daley Bro's., though eyes did not discover any, noses did, as the liquor was turned out be- fore the officers commenced to search The suspected parties were arrested, and their trial is to be next Monday.
 School in Dist. is to commence Mon day. Miss Maria B. Colman, teacher.
 Colds, affecting the lungs, are very prevalent.
 Rev. Cross occupied the pulpit of the Methodist church Sunday.
 Measles have again made their ap- pearance here, so that the few who es- capped them last fall have an opportunity to be afraid of the disease again.
 -Charred shingles were found in con- siderable numbers, the morning after Washington mill burned, 39 miles from the fire.
 People who dwell near trout brooks always say "Yes," whenever inquiry is made as to good fishing, so Billy's brook continues to be the resort of fishermen, though not dozen worthy the name of trout have been caught there in season.
 The true trout fisherman delights in novels, reads Scott, Cooper, and other works of fiction, and even the works of Mark Twain delight his soul. No matter if he be of the blue blood of New England, he claims his right to fish as privilege which he inherited from his forefathers, and cites the historian as saying ''the waters were filled with goodly fyshe." No fisherman was ever known to be destitute of imagination or who failed to see good joke-on others. The true son of Izaac Walton both counts and weighs his fish. George says he hooked one last week Mon- day which weighed one pound, but our reporter did not think that George deals in drugs, 80 did not ask whether by Avoir- dupois or Apothecaries' weight.
 Work is very dull, some of the mills running but part of the time and others having stopped.
 -"Died, in Palmyra, Me-, April 18th, Helen M., wife of the late Albert s. Rix," was the announcement in the Hartford Daily Courant, and it conveyed to many sorrow, for ''Helen" to them meant a loving friend. She came into the family of Geo. Parker in this place as an orphan child, living there several years, school at South-st A true lover of music, she was member of the choir of the Methodist church when it was or ganized under its present leader, and it was delight to hear her sing, for her She went to Rockville when about eigh- riage, seventeen years ago this month. Greatly attached to all, it seemed as if her heart would break on the death of her first little one, Ida May, in Hartford, where she then resided, and it was touching to hear her say ''every week we go to Ida's grave in Cedar Cemetery, and our horse always stops of its own accord when we reach the spot where Ida lies." One child, Eda Mabel, was left for the parents to i've for, then two others, Ernest and Ina came, making the hone as happy as an earthly home could be-children who ran 0 meet the father as he came home, and hen last spring the father was called sway. "For weeks my hand trembled so could not hold pen," wrote Helen. If it were not fer my children would lot try to live, for my heart is broken. But try she did, still, gradually failing, ,un- il last fall she was but shadow of her ormer self, when she came to bid her friends here good by before going to her 'ister's in Maine, where consumption fin shed the work which sorrow begun. Three children survive her.