The Press., 1889-08-22
COVENTRY.
A. 5. PARKER Local Editor and Business Manager
 of Coventry Local Register.

SOUTH COVENTRY.
 A. s. PARKER, Local Editor and Business Manage
 of Coventry Local Register.
 Grange meeting next Mondsy evening
 The grange picnic will meet in Clark grove Aug. 29, at 10.30 a. m., if the weath CT is favorable. We heard Worthy Mas ter Sprague of Andover suggest that al cake should be marked with the name O the maker by card placed on the plate Going for an all day picnic substantial fooi will be in request. Tea, coffee, coffee anG lemonade will be furnished by a commit tee. Napkins, knives, forks and spoons ought to be carried by each one. Some boats have been engaged at ten cents ar hour, and about thirty may be needed Theie are many nlce places to swing ham mocks. About two hundred guests are ex pected.
 Mrs. Norman Sprague, eighty-two years old, of Bunker Hill, fell. few days since and injured her hip. She is attended by Dr. H. s. Dean.
 Mrs. Annie Smith is quite feeble.
 Miss Electa Sprague and her neice, Mabel, came to town Tuesday.
 Mrs. H. F. Dimock and daughter have been absent from town for some time, wis iting Bar Harbor and other summer re. sorts.
 Mrs. Henry Waters was in town last week.
 Rev. A. G. Hubbard preached at the Congregational church Sunday in the ab. sence of the pastor, Rev. A. J. Quick.
 If our memory serves us the legislature appropriated sum of money some time since to make improvements around Nathan Hale monument, and if done at all this season the work ought to be done at once.
 We knew the yard at the Methodist parsonage looked shabby with it's thrifty growth of Roman wormwood and other weeds, but refrained from speaking of the fact lest we hurt the wrong persons feelings. Now we are requested to say by former resident and Methodist that one morning last week in essaying to go to the parsonage she came near being drowned; all that prevented was less dew than usual that morning.
 -Horatio Brainard and wife of Spring field are guests of her brother, H. F. Parker.
 MT. Wilcox of New London is to teach the grammar department, Miss Leila Quick the intermediate, Miss Perkins the primary in district l, Miss Mowry in district 2, Miss Julia White in district 4.
 Rev. w. Fl. Clark, D. D., of Philadel. phia, whose family have been spending the summer here, here will occupy the Congregational church pulpit next Sun- day. -.s.
 The Sons of the Revolution, New York, have commissioned Frederick MacMonies, a pupil of St Gaudens, now studying in Paris, to make a design for monument to Nathan Hale, and they expect to receive it within month. They know where to get the money for it, and have secured the site in the northwest corner of City Hall Park, New York city.
 Contributed Items) A LAWYERS ANswER.-It isn't so easy a matter, after all, to find out a woman s age. Dr. Dean has recently been making 8 series of professional visits at the resi- dence of John l.. Hunter, Willimantic The squire owns sprite of baby who dispenses amusement broadcast. One day, while folding up the powders, the doctor inquired of the young miss-"Are you four years old ?" When out came the an- swer in long, connecting links-"I-was- four-once.
 Mrs. Fred A. Cowan, of New York, is visiting at the old homestead with her parents. MT. and Mrs. T. F. Rogers.
 = Mr. Timothy Fiske, of Holliston. Mass. : father of D. W. Fiske of South h-st. with his grand daughters, Misses Alice and Eva Jones, are guests of MT. and Mrs. D. w. Fiske.~ Miss Alice is the principal of the high school in Abbington, and Miss Eva is teacher of the intermediate depart. nent in Stoneham, Mass.
 SOMERS.
 The Somersville Manufacturing Com oany, manufacturers of cassimeres, are en- arging their mill by an addition 100 by l60 feet.
 (Correspondence.)
 The Congregational Sunday school of Somers, and the Congregational Sunday school of Somersville, have made arrange nents to hold their annual picnic together, It Pine Point Grove, on Wednesday, the 18th of this month.
 HI. R. Kibbe has about thirty men employed on and about his new barn. AL though not completed MT. Kibbe is filling t with part of this years hay crop.
 James F. .Kibbe of New York, former resident, is spending few days in town, with friends and relatives.
 HI. B. Hastings of Springfield is oc- ,upying Capt. T. D. Johnson's 8 house dur ng his absence.
 Harry G. Kibbe of New York spent Sunday with his father, H. R. Kibbe.
 Mrs. Wm. B. Carpenter and daughter 'f Salem, N. J., are spending a few days n town.
 A new arrival at the Congregational parsonage last Friday night another boy. - Two surveyors, Messrs. Ganet and Manley, appointed by Secretary Noble to prepare typographical map of the state of Connecticut, in working on top of Soap Stone mountain found it necessary to cut ome of the trees and underbrush on land belonging to Wm. Weirs. MT. Weirs brought suit against Manley for damages or cutting over four acres of woodland. The case came before Justice Noble Tues lay and was presented by Lawyer Sage in 'ehalf of Weirs and defended by Lawyer Reed in behalf of Manley, both of Stafford. liter hearing the case Justice Noble 'rought in verdict for damages to the mount of $lOO. Manley took an appeal.
 WALES.
 The stoppage of the Shaw woolen mills t Wales Is unpleasant news at this time. ut it has long been known that the busi. less was being run very close. The mills were built during war times at high cost. nd have ever since been under heavy mortgage. Elijah Shaw, the owner, failed 1877, paid 20 cents on the dollar. and esumed again. Of late his son, Herbert G., has been his partner in business. .here are five of the mills, though but