The Press., 1893-09-28
COVENTRY.
COVENTKYs A. s. PARKER, Local Editor and Business Man. ager of Coventry Local Register
 South Coventry.

I A. s. PARKER, Local Editor and Business Man
 ager of Coventry Local Register. sI South Coventry. I Geo. l.. Phillips, postmaster, has to forward mail to about fifty persons. l Mrs. John B. Brown is in a precari- ous state of health.
 f Wolcott Ayers marketed his crop of peaches in a city.
 q Owing to hard times Mrs. Mary Lord Lee, of Denver, Colorado, has decided not to visit Coventry this fall.
 ---Wm. A. Babcock recently visited the worlds fair.
 U. B. Carman has returned from Chi cago.
 John J. Franklin, formerly of this place, spent some time with Martin Park CT, at the Conn. crop exhibit last week. II -Lottie Hutchinson has entered the first class of the four years course at Storrs Agricultural College. Roella War ren also entered.
 A union temperance meeting will be held in the Congregational church next Sunday evening.
 I Nellie Potter, now of Providence, is visiting friends in town.
 Rev. F. D. Avery, of Columbia, SUD- piled the pulpit at the Congregational church last Sunday.
 Owing to the poor health of Rev. MT. Lamson, the M. E. pulpit was sup piled by speaker from abroad.
 MT. and Mrs. Geo. Stanley and MT. and Mrs. Thompson each have a daugh- ter, born last week.
 -Benj. Zalimer, of Hartford, who won a gold watch, a revolver and third prize at the Pratt & Whitney road races, !" Saturday." spent Sunday at R. B. Will sons.
 Miss Hattie Wilson spent Sunday at home.
 MT. Baker accidently dropped shave on the head of Dwight Ledoyt, who was working below him, cutting him quite badly, one day last week.
 Mrs. Benoni Irwin leaves town this week.
 The lot between the houses of Mrs. Stone and Geo. Durham is being im- proved by a bank wall. .- "A Sunday school conference, under management of the Conn. Sunday School l Association, will be held in the Congre- gational church, South Coventry, on Thursday, Oct. 9th, 1898. 7.3O p. m. Or der of exercises: 1, devotional service; 2, yes and no question exercise on Sun- day school york; 3, address. Theme Practical Temperance Work in Sunday School;" 4, discussion. Topic-"What Improvements can be made in our Sun- day-School Work ?"
 The staging upon which four men were standing and were painting the Catholic church, on Tuesday, fell. One man caught the caves. The others went down with the staging about twenty five feet. Two were uninjured; the third, John Ely, had his left leg broken between the ankle and knee.
 HOLLAND. | (Correspondence)
 Henry Young, Oscar A. Leonard and David Brown are at the worlds fair. MT. Leonard will be gone month or more, visiting friends in the west.
 Martin Koehler, of Warehouse Point, and Miss Gertrude M. Duncan, formerly of this place, were. married at the Metho- dist parsonage Wednesday by Rev. J ohm Thompson. They will reside in Man chester.
 Miss Clara Cole is taking special course at Mt. Holyoke college. Miss E. s. Kent, of East Hartford, formerly of Holland, is the guest of Mrs. L.. s. Fuller.
 The post-offiee is now located in the Congregational parsonage at the south end of the Street. | Work on the new building which is to take the place of the County House which was burnt, is progressing rapidly. The foundation is already well under way. James H. Clough is the architect for the structure.
 Mrs. c. R. Hicks and family have re- turned to their home in New York.
 The Holland County conference of Congregational churches will be held here Oct. 18th and 18th. The annual meeting of the Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society will be held Friday aftelnoon.
 Geo. Kibbe has rented the Fuller residence, and can accommodate few boarders.
 Rev. A. H. Post led the consecration service of the Y. P. s. c. E. Sunday eve- ming. Miss Ames, of Westfield, Mass, was present at this meeting. She preach ed at Crystal Lake Sunday morning.
 Frank H. Underwood has moved his family to Boston, where he is engaged in business. FLORA.
 ROCKVILLE. ' William H. Andross, administrator of the estate of John Barnum, has settled the estate and divided $11, 1858 among SC distant relatives, located in five states many of them never having heard of John Barnum. The man spent % years in state prison for killing his father, while pro- tecting his mother. He was pardoned largely through the efforts of William w Andross, then an officer in the prison He returned to Rockville, with no mon ey, and by hard labor accumulated con siderable sum. He had intended to leave his money to the Rockville Baptist church and friends who had assisted him, but ht died suddenly before making will, at ar evening service in the Baptist church.
 A Hartford Times correspondence cat story: An Elm street lady, who has had the care of quite number of cats fol some time, decided some weeks ago t reduce the number. A member of the family offered to take one cat off hel hands, as his father in Stafford would