The Press., 1886-11-25
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\. SOUTH COVENTRY. Al @uP6 6RKEn, Local Editor and Business Manage
 IN Mf Coventry Local ReUlefer.

] N N # SOUTH COVENTRY. A. HpP 6RKEH, lsocal Editor and Business Manage
 @ 0f Coventry Local Register.
 James McClave, si ster, and two chil dren of Patrick Brannigan, left for Cali fornia last week. K
 \ -4"All the chicken pie and rice pudding one could eat for 10 cts, and pleasan time besides, ," is the report that comes from the entertainment given by the Help ing Hand Society last Friday evening $25. .50was the amount received.
 -@:MT and Mrs. Dove of Rochester, N Y., were guests at F. Fl. Peterson's las
 Arthur Woodwork has been the mos successful barrel collector of the Light In fantry. fie having over $20, Sunday, fol the chandeliers.
 Thanksgiving service II a. m., at the Congregational church. Rev. o. A. Far ley is to preach.
 -Sanday morning g missionary from India preached at the Congregations church. a
 The large chimney at the Hubbard place IS being taken down, as it was con sidered unsafe, and a new one will be built. It was probably the largest brick chimney (to 8 dwelling house) in thls parish. a81f :.
 "A large engine is being put into c. H. Keynon & Co.'S. woolen mill. The factory has been stopped for some days.
 -The ice house which J. J. Franklin is building for n. F. Dimock is 22x30, with 12 foot posts.
 !The assanlting by masked highway. mensof gentleman who was driving along South-st., one night recently, IS still the talk of the town. Sunday morning brought 8 new sensation, the post-office had been entered some time during the night previ- ous, some money taken ]; also from the store of Hall < Sweet, where the office is kept, watches, &c., the amount of value of arti- cles taken rep0rted to be about $60. A square of glass was tsken out of front window, and the burglars probably enter cd that way.
 Rev. F. E. Jenkins preached at the M. E. church Sunday. He expects to hold his last service as pastor of the Con- gregational church Sunday, Dec. 18th, and will leave the week following for his new work among the mountains of Ken tuekyts2 @ssE #s{5s asse-.A -<e ssi
 -Satnrday, the little daughter of J. J. Champlin, while watching ball game, ap- preached too near the prayers, and was ac- struck on the forehead by ball club. No serious results are expected but the blow was quite severe.
 The light seen Monday evening was caused by the burning barn of MT. Pop pie, Mansfield.
 Rev. Father Quinn removed Monday, to his new residence. s
 Henry Jacobs of Bridgeport, came to town Saturday. and with his family will spend Thanksgiving with his sister, Mrs. Samuel Ledoyt.
 <-Eastford cor. Norwich Bulletin: Gil bert Watson and Edgar Scranton of Union were arrested by Deputy Sheriff Henry A. Braman on Friday, Nov. 18th, charged with drunkenness and improper conduct at the house of MT. George Ellis, North Ashford, on the night of Nov. 10th. They were taken before Justice James M. Keith The latter pleaded guilty and was fined $1 and cost. The former was tried and convicted of smashing the windows and He was fined for drunken ness and placed under a $300 bond for breaking in the window. He failed to procure bonds and was committed to the county jail, Brooklyn, to await his trial. Michael Reagan, who was one of the party, has evaded the officer and gone into an ad- joining state. :. Your correspondent has conversed with two aged persons the past week. The eldest, Mrs. Dorcas Moore, aged ninety-six years, formerly of Holland, who now resides with her daughter, Mrs. John Holman, ih the enjoyment of good health at the present time. The other is Mrs. Joanna D. Rindge of Hampton, aged eighty three years, who has been on vis- it to this place and Union, anticipating passing Thanksgiving with her son. She lives on the old homestead and does the work for herself and hired man, making her own butter during the summer for a years supply.
 Travellers Magazine The other day a man entered 8 newspaper office, paid 50 cents for an advertisement, and got mad because the editor wouldn't insert $5 ''free puff in the local columns, calling attention to: his 50-cent advertisement As he was leaving the office thunderbolt, that made the earth tremble, struck him fairly oh the right cheek. He gazed vague ly around for minute or two, and then started down the street humming sYou cawn't do it, ye know. while the thunder bolt imped5 of in another direction, howl ing with pain, and entered the nearest drug store, where it invested in gallon of arnica and seven yards of court-plaster. It will be laid up in Jove's thunderbolt for repairs during the re- mainder of the year.
 ''Liberty assembly 1907, K. of L., Chi cago," has issued an address to 'sall local assemblies of Knights of Labor and kin lred organizations throughout the worlds in behalf of the condemned anarchist, Albert R. Parsons. It sets forth that his career as g member of the noble order has been without ga blemish, ]" that his trial was "a travesty of justice" and that his execution will be ''simply judicial mur- der"
 The Springfield Republican needs no to the people of this section B part of its own local field. Readers will take pleasure in glancing over it's announce ment for 1887, in another column, and keep right on taking and reading either the daily or weekly issue as before. e CCRIBNER's MAGAZINE. NJ Y pVYpT ER7FTOM MnNdHrr