The Press., 1888-05-31
COVENTRY
SOUTH COVENTRY.

| COVENTRY
 SOUTH COVENTRY. A. s. PARKER, Local Editor and Business Manager
 of Coventry Local Register.
 Samuel Ledoyt has purchased tho 'Kiah Edgerton place.
 = Chas. Kingsbury, justice of the peace sentenced the eleven -year-old boy, who drove away horse without leave from North Coventry to Manchester, ten years to the reform school at Meriden, and the boy was taken to Meriden, this week, by Wm. o. Latimer.
 Mrs J.. J. Franklin continues very i'll.
 Work is in progress on the big barn on the Thos. B. Porter place.
 The reflection of the fire at North Coventry Monday night lighted up the south parish.
 -Dahlia tubers, all sprouted to give away. Call Saturday morning at Martin Parker's.
 The drum corps received their new suits early this week.
 Those farmers who have furnished plant food for their grass land have reason to anticipate ''the barn fnll of hay" which will grow in Ca cold, wet May," but those who have acted on the plan of Mir. Bum- ble at the work house are complaining that hay Is thin 1?
 -Mrs. Esther Babcock came to town early last week.
 We presume the appropriation made by the legislature to improve the sur roundings of the Nathan Hale monument will be used for that purpose before an- other state election.
 About two hundred people, the G. A. okk %a ration of soldiers graves in the Nathan Hale cemetery at 2 p. m. memorial day. Rev. Henry Hoisington offered prayer, Revs. J. J. Quinn and John Pearse de- livered addresses. The drum corps were dressed in their new uniforms, buff and blue, continental style, and as its mem- bers are men of five and One-half feet to boys of small stature, the effect was unique. The G. A. R. and drum corps attended the memorial exercises at North Coventry in the morning. A collation. was served in the Methodist vestry at noon.
 NORTH COVENTRY.
 The Holland County association of Congregational ministers will hold it's an nnal meeting ith Rev. MT. Hoisington at North Coventry on Tuesday, June 9th.
 WELLINGTON.
 Rev. A. J. Culver of Westford will preach at Moose Meadow next Sabbath at 2 p. m.
 Springfield Republican Mrs. Annie A. Preston of Wilmington, Ct, whose name is we'll known to the readers of The Re- publican, will read story and also poem at meeting of the woman's American Baptist home mission society, to be held with the First Baptist church Friday. Mrs. Preston has been identified with the home mission work in Connecticut from it's start, as director of the Ashford association and as acting ce-president for the state. Rev. D. Breed, of West Stafford, will preach in the Baptist church June 3d, in exchange with Pastor Terry. He will also preach in the Congregational church at o'clock same day.
 (ooRREsPoNDENCE,)
 Mrs Sarah Sumner is visiting in Prov idence, R. I.
 Mrs. Eliza Kent Fuller has been stop ping with her mother at the Hollow for the last two weeks, caring for her in her ill., ness. Mrs. Kent is suffering from erysip- elas, and has lost the sight of one eye from attendant inflammation.
 We fail to see the points in the Willing ton item in yesterday s Republican, Earticu- larly the reference to- Judge Carpenter, who has lately sold ont IT. property near the depot and resies |ssIiicss sesrt that of judge of probat9. It's to6 bad that our woods and fields are so fearfully cut ap with sled paths.
 Ladies Sewing Society this afternoon and evening al the conference room.
 Memorial day was observed in meas ure by individuals visiting the cemeteries, with flowers and flags, during the day. Friends in Hartford sent flowers and a flag for Lieutenant Glazier's grave. Pastor Terry gave a very patriotic address in the conference room in the evening, showing 8 high appreciation of the services of those who bore hand in the late war. The veterans in the vicinity, as well as the old members of the ''home guard, ought to have heard it.
 Charlie Nichols has bought fine horse of Bowen & Needham.
 Ezra A. Morse is suffering again from malaria.
 List of letters uncalled for in P. o. May 31st: Frau Albertine Gohlerf Fab Glum, 'Every Evening"" Mrs. Edward Moore, Mrs. Hattie Rounds.