The Press., 1891-03-26
COVENTRY,
COVENTRY. A. s. PARKER, Local Editor and Business Manager of Coventry Local Register.
SOUTH COVENTRY.

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 SOUTH COVENTRY
 George w. Calhoun, native of Gov entry, brother of Judge D. s Calhoun of Hartford, and during the war provost marshal of Hartford, died at his residence in Newmarket, N. J., last Friday. He was 69 years of age.
 | Special grange meeting next Monday evening.
 Another grange baby. J. l.. Potter is the happy father and the baby's name is Hazel.
 Stanley Bros are having considerable corn come to Hop River station, and the road leading thither shows the effect of heavy teaming.
 Miss Ella M. Stanley of Highland Park spent tone time this week at the "Ms rt!n- box.
 There is to be an B ,ster service at Congregational church Sunday evening.
 Vacation at the Storrs Agricultural School begins tomorrow.
 MT. and Mrs. Seymour Scott cele- brated their golden wedding at their home last Monday. The ''bride" was daughter of the late Jesse Reed of Mansfield. There were four children present, Hattie, Mrs Addison Kingsbury, and Edwin and James Scott. Hugh Scott of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., MT. Scott's brother, was also present. There was fine floral display, and several useful gifts were left by the guests. {Contributed.) Rev. A. J. Quick has recently preach. ed series of sermons on "The Prodig, Son." They have been alluded to as spe. cially excellent, and having marked in- | terest to the young, the theme of the first being. "Beware of taking the first false steps" Mir. Quick has begun his semi. annual pastoral calls :. . What matter ii the March winds blew upon the 18th inst. so as they blew lap full of parental | joy within the residence of Mir. and Mrs. John Potter, South-st. It is daughter. ... Brown and Bessey butchered, and marketed to Turner, three ''creamery milk" pigs last week. . . Mrs. R. B. Will. son and daughter, Hattie, contemplate a removal to Tacoma, Washington. The country roads are somewhat rutted, but unusually free from mud for the time ol year. Wm. Wood intends to vacate the Storrs tenement, moving into one of his mothers. Jim Bessey is filling maple sugar order for Mrs. Fl. F. Dimock. Walton Thompson has hired the grocery store at Columbia of Geo. Fisk. .. What's the trump?" is the naughty question of the hour. It is the game oi cards you know-the very same old fash toned illustrated cards-.and all the same nomenclature. If they would change the pictures and the lore perhaps much of the prejudice woud flake off Summer is near. You know it by the husky notes oi the cotton flannel gloons that echo from the swamp. Hay is selling at $12 pei ton delivered. .. If you want pure drug buy of Phillips. At about 10 o'clock a. m., Sunday last, the silver. throated sum mer birds made sweet melody amid the naples, apple and cherry trees, for about an hour. Mir. and Mrs. Seymour Scot celebrated the golden anniversary of theil wedding last Monday, March 23d: Blossoms have crested the pillows Of nearly all of these fifty years, But about midway beneath the willows We've shed afliction's bitter tears. Now onward from, this golden hour May happy stars together rise, And blessings more abundant shower From many future Easter skies. Around these calm and trusting hearts, Who wait the ocean's ebb and flow,
 Still loving the songs that play their parts Twixt winters gloom and summers glow | M. A. B.