The Press., 1892-02-25
COVENTRY,

A. s. PARKER, Local Editor and Business Man.
 ager of Coventry Local Register.
 South Coventry.
 The offer by the Pope Mfg Go. of one hundred bicycles to one hundred boys who should write and have published the best essays on
 I Good Roads,
 prompted the writing of this article by thirteen-year-old boy in Dist. 9:
 l A road should be built so that it would last for ever, and that means good foun- dation should be made, and it should be we'll finished. The foundation to road the ground; first, the place for the road should be surveyed, and then the turf all taken away, then filled with stone; next, little coarser gravel, and that rolled, then fine gravel, and rolled.
 The road should be little rounding in the center, so that water would run of, and not make ice in winter for horse to slip on. A good plan for a ditch is to put flat stones together, so that they will form an obtuse angle; thus, they should not be close to the road, as great many I are, but set back where it would not in terfere with teams passing each other, and especially on very dark nights. The 1 ditches on each side of the roads should be kept clean, so the water will not come into the road. 1 A road should not have any thank you mans to throw person over the horses head. A well-made road would not have to be fixed every year; it should be wide enough so that a team would not have to go up on bank and through brush to pass another team. Shade trees should be left by the roadside when trimming up the brush, or set out close to the boundary fences or walls. .s. .4
 | The road should not be like snake, but nearer like a rule. A road bridge should be made of fiat stones, securely fastened on good side walls or abutments, and have gravel and stones on the fiat stones. The hills in a road should be graded more, and children should not be allowed to slide on them, for some times a farmer does not want to get his horse sharpened for the sake of some one sliding. Loam ought to kept out of the roads, so the frost would not work it in and turn the whole road over. '';"' '' | l The farmer says in the spring, "If go to town tomorrow I must not take a large load, for fear the frost will let me | through" The men of Connecticut ought to care enough about their country roads to keep them in good order, and make them so the frost will not heaye them out of proper shape. The people ought to get up good roads, that would not have to be fixed every year with rut scraper and gang of ten or twelve men. Put the same number of men making roads in- stead of mending them and the towns I would save money. ss5.:Z The fences ought not to be within 15 it. of the ditch, so as to look we'll. To have the road seem fine to strangers, as well as town people, the ground should be level | between the fences. The roadsides could l be kept clean if stones did not have to be l thrown out of the road every year to clear it, and I think it would pay to build a good road.
 Westerly(R RI )Weekly: MT. Charles H.. Cory, of Coventry, Conn.,, was the guest of Mir. Joseph Schofeld the past week: MT. Cory was in the 9th Connec- ticut volunteers during the. war, and was one of the color guards. Out of the ten who enlisted he was the only one who re- l turned alive. The shortest man in the color guard was 6. feet g inches high, while Mir. Cory was feet 64 inches.s ,
 Some of time recently Washbnrn's silk mill has been run day and night. '
 -J. K. Hammond, conductor of horse cars at East Hartford, slipped and fell on an icy sidewalk and broke his leg.
 The factory of O.. H. Kenyon < Go. has recently been running only part of the time, on account off a shortage of hands in the dyeing department. s '
 Billy -Wellwood has purchased g. dwelling house and land adjacent to the lake on Turkey Hill. The house was built for Methodist church, sold to the Catholics in 1867, and remodeled into a dwelling by Rev. J. o, Dodge some years later. --1as. rj.s,~ ,,,..s,< ..H.'a.-E@..
 The entertainment given by the Y. P. S. c. B. last week Wednesday evening was pleasant and successful. @~'" Mrs. Laurella A. Wilson purchased the real estate of Mrs. Diantha Loomis
 W. s. Ledoyt's residence on Main-st. is for sale. =. -s.+ ~.s-S "'.
 -"The reason an agent for the selling of liquor was appointed by the selectmen of this town is because the selectmen had been threatened with prosecution if one was not appointed. The voters of this town voted, first, no icense,. and second, elected to office men to do our town busi- ness, a majority of whom every man who cast a vote knew to, be in favor of liquor selling. The minority of the board of selectmen is helpless, Last year the same clause relative to a town agent was among our laws, but the majority of the selectmen did not want liquor sold in town and appointed no one to: act as agent. The first indication we had that intoxicants were dispensed here was see- ing two young men one Sunday evening drive furiously back and forth by our house, driving perhaps one and one-half miles and then returning. The horse was evidently a hired one, Iand. more more sorry looking beast we never saw. We understand that the selectmen would have had to pay no penalty if a town agent had not been appointed. Alcohol sufficient for medicinal purposes could have been procured, and no1one but those who use liquor habitually wished it placed on sale here. We have, heretofore re-