The Press., 1886-08-26
COVENTRY.
SOUTH COVENTRY.

COVENTRY.
 SOUTH COVENTRY.
 A. s. PARKER, Local Editor and Business Manager
 of Coventry Local Register.
 Rev. A. O. Hubbard of Stanton, Mich. visited here the first of this week.
 --C. H. Parker is at Austin Boynton's. and Wm. A. Babcock at the Babcock homestead.
 Peter Henderson's catalogue of bulbs for fall planting is the first to remind us that the time to prepare for next springs surprises is at hand. A few crocus bulbs set last fall gave pleasant change from looking at springs usual soddenness. we except hepaticas and other wildlings). J.. B. Olcott, in the Courant, recommended making holes in the turf with crowbar, placing spoonful of some fertilizer and a crocus bulb in each hole, so that when an- other spring shall come bits of brightness may show among the green.
 The spire of the Congregational church is being painted by G. w. Moore.
 We were at loss to know the cause of the cloudy, muggy weather of Tuesday until we learned that Washbu1n had cut his rowen. Several farmers have not yet finished cutting their first crop of hay. ;
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 The republicans of Willington are re- quested to meet at the town hall, Tuesday, August 31st, at o'clock p. m., to nominate delegates to the several conventions. Per order town committee.
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 Dow Ide is now doing the repairing at Hoyle's mill. l Miss Sarah Stevens of Boston. teach To- 11oS. is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Albert Jones' South Wilmington. 4 &l EL E |
 A slight frost visited the Hollow and the vicinity of the depot last Sunday night.
 A little stranger appeared at the house of William Waldo last Sunday. Jennie Waldo Knox is the nearest related to it.
 Albert Preston and wife of Hartford have been visiting at Lucius Prestons.
 George Wilson and family, now of Windsor, spent last Sunday with friends at the Hollow.
 -s'Seventeen year locusts" have been noticed in this vicinity this season.
 The northern lights. were a beautiful sight last Monday evening.
 An adjourned society meeting will be held in the Baptist conference room next Monday evening. ~>,cs s.-,s. g .t.s
 Frank Dawley and wife of Westford visited friends on the Hill Tuesday,.
 Miss Georgie Leonard gave an inter- esting address to the Sabbath school last Sunday. She and her sister return to Cambridgeport tomorrow. The visits of these charming ladies, descendants of the old Wilmington stock, are always heartily welcomed. &Ff Es*E
 Large and attentive audiences, both at the church ih the center and at the hall !, South Wilmington, listened to two very able discourses from Rev. George Shep- herd of North Bennington, Vt. the. last Sunday Sunday of his stay here, the 22d inst. During his pleasant and profitable sOiourn among us, spending his vacation, he has impressed all who have been pres ent at his public ministrations and who have met him socially as young preacher of rare ability and power. The best wish es of the people to whom he has minister ed went with him on his departure last Monday. <.
 On Saturday at 10 o'clock in the fore noon the able bodied men of this town who are interested are earnestly requested to repair to the old cemetery to 1now over and tidy up this ancient resting place of the dead. A very large portion of the area of the yard is occupied by the graves of those sterling fathers and mothers and other kindred of old whose descendants and relatives, many of them in afHuent circumstances, now reside parts more or less distant from the ancestral domain. For some years few resident friends only have faithfully met to do what they could to stay the growth of weeds and bushes, and right up the old grave-stones. Many of these nonresident friends, above men, toned, scattered about the land, take The Press. And now if this notice shall meet their eye will they not begin this year to contribute little something so that the burden shall be more equitably borne Any sums forwarded to Lathrop Manning or to l.. W. Holt will be thankfully re- ceived and piously devoted to the good work.
 Miss Mary James, daughter of Rev. F. James, is visiting at W. H. Holt's.
 Carpenters and builders are now in great demand at G. Hall & Co.'S. TT
 Miss Lizzle Eldridge Rider, who has taught the center school for the past year, ing-house.
 Miss Henrietta T. Holt, late of Bing. hamton, N. Y., is engaged to teach the Glass Factory school, beginning the first Monday in September. = =. r. James Hoyle is greatly improving the appearance of his mills and premises by painting, grading, &c.
 Mrs. LuciusE Eldridge is visiting friends in Central Falls, R. I. .r
 Miss Mary B. Wilson, daughter of Levi T. Wilson of Mansfield, has been en- gagged to teach the center school begin ming the second Monday of September.
 Mrs. Garret Ladue is spending the week with relatives in Fishkill, N. Y.la@
 The thread mill shut down yesterday to accommodate operatives who joined the excursion to Newport, R. I. ''
 MT. 0. E. Fuller will occupy the Bap- tist pulpit next Sunday. He will proba- bly, preach in the church and in South Wilmington for the present. s
 mANSFIELDs
 Rev. A. A. Presbrey of Jacksonville. c&o Ro IL z.