The Press., 1888-10-11
COVENTRY.
SOUTH COVENTRY.
A. s. PARKER Local Editor and Business Manager
 of Coventry Local Register.

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 | A g. PARKER Local Editor and Business Manage of Coventry Local Register
 Henry Albro has just been elected te 1 his 18th consecutive term as town assessor
 By the aid of the Willimantic brass band, the Nathan Hale drum corps, fifty torches in procession, rockets and Roman candles at intervals, the illumination oi shops and private dwellings and firing oi cannon, republican flags were raised by R. W. Barber, B. F. Tracy and A. D. Bottom, also one near the post office. Wm. B. Simonds gave lecture in the vestry of the Congregational church.
 -Dr. H. s. Dean has shown what is possible for man to do by attending to his patients during the last four weeks, though he looked too ill tosbe out. His health seems to be returning.
 Registrars of voters will meet at Town house, North Coventry, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 188, and at town clerks office, South Coventry, Thursday, Oct. IS, 1883. Ses- sions from a. m. till 5 D. m.
 MT Thomas E. Porter's Guernsey bull Sir Pride, 2 No 1237, American Guern- sey herd register, took the first premium at Rockville, also the sweepstakes best of any age or breed.
 -Wangumbaug grange was organized Monday evening at the vestry of the Meth odist church, as Charles Kolb's hall was not large enough to accommodate the grange and visiting grangers. Deputy O. s. Wood was present. Officers l.. B. Hicks, master; H. F. Parker, overseer ]; Mrs. H. F. Parker, lecturer Charles T. Frey, steward E. l.. Hutchinson, assist ant steward Chas. Kolb, chaplain Ar hold Warren, treasurer Martin Parker, secretary James Bessey, gate keeper i; Mrs. l.. B. Hicks, Ceres ; Mrs. Arnold War ren, Pomona; Mrs. B. l.. Hutchinson, Flora :; Mrs. Ella Mason. lady assistant. There are twenty-four charter members. The weightest one is John Payne, though there are several men of weight. The only member yet under twenty is Martin Hib- bard Parker. Meetings are to be held in Chas. Kolb's hall the second and fourth Mondays of each month.
 Oct 9th, 3 D. m., as we sit writing, small boy fires a snow-ball toward our win dow exclaiming, "What dye think of that this early, ha ?" We confess to feeling of thankfulness, thinking the chill air may destroy the germs of yellow fever far south.
 Mrs. DC Eaton says that she remem- bers seeing foot of snow on the ground Oct. 5th, forty-three years ago..
 (Correspondence.)
 Miss Maria Colman, one of South Gov entry's deserving daughters, has recently secured renumerative position as senior nurse on one of the wards Ill the "women and children's hospital, , Chicago.
 -WiIlimantic Chronicle: The marriage of Miss Minnie A. Brace of this village, and Mr. Albert B. Whitney of Newton, Mass, occurred at the residence of Mrs. Hyde Kingsley, on Prospectrst., Monday, at 8 30 o'clock. Since her residence in this village, as the companion of Mrs. Kingsley, Miss Brace has made a large circle of friends, who will wish her all manner of happiness in her union with one: of the most popular and thrifty of Bostons jewellers. Rev. s. R. Free per formed the ceremony in the presence of a few near friends, and they left at 5.15 o'clock on the limited express for New York. Their wedding trip will comprise Saratoga, Lake George and the Adiron- dacks