The Press., 1895-11-21
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 Copies of the Local ReG1ster Tor salesat the post Oface, South Coventry. South Coventry.
 Friend Bessy, who has been absent from town about a year, is expected to return before many days.
 Miss Eliza, sister of. Chas.- Frey, of Warwick, R. l., recently visited at |. B. Hicks.'.
 Arnold Warren is still making cider. Nathan Potter has mulched his straw berry plants with buckwheat straw for winter protection. e .>I MT. and Mrs. A. H. Paget dame to- the residence of H. F. Dimock the even. ing of tho 18th, and are there the pres ent writing. MT. Dimock's family are in New York.
 Some of the floors in the Louisa Lord house have been taken up and replaced with hard wood. The grist mill, known, as WarreN's, has been purchased by Mfr. Sweeney, and. is run day and night. New machines have been purchased, including . sconrer, bolter, etc., and flrst-class grade of flour is made. Rye and buckwheat are ground Thursdays. T
 John Wood Is resetting the underpin+ ming of the residence of L.. B. Hicks: :. Mir. Brewer is very i'll. The Congregational yestry has, re- gently been painted. @
 Seymour Scott, who for some years l | -SGl h l. died at that place Monday, end: ywas brought to this place for burial Thursday. MT. Scott resided, in, this village .many years. His wife wac daughter of Jesse Reed, a family noted for longevity. j MT. Scott had family, Mrs. Addison Kings- bury of Wall-st. being one of the younger children.
 Sumner Payne got fox Monday in the vicinity of Bear swamp. The woods are full of them. .-.-..- :; ..-y.:,:
 Mrs. Dewilda Hutchinson has gone to Springfield, Mass, to visit Mrs. Mary Buell..
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 1 tCorrespondenee.) .. l -Mc0CAuS OI Guo SEHuSo Go-An&sN&ONW evening. F
 No shortage of water in our wells this season, sure. E
 Mir. Weeks, of Hartford, supplied the Congregational pulpit last Sunday. He stopped at John F. Whitfords. <.
 Mrs. Henry E. Robbins has gone to Westford. .~- ; :
 Our garden is supplying us with a second crop of lettuce. s', IT,. :,
 John G. Ryder started for Moline, Ill.,; last Saturday. His wife and child will board at Merrill Cushman's, Moose Meadow, for the present. ~.:y s:3;,->.
 Mrs, s. P. Swift has gone to Willi- mantle to keep boarders. ?. .,s'': ..~-,'
 Miss Annie E. Dimock came from. New York Monday to spend Thanksgiv- ing with her parents. :s
 Our roads are pretty badly washed: but the rain was welcome. A.
 Representative Eldrldge raises about as fine celery as can be found in any market. ..- s
 Mrs. Bronson Is at her-father's5 Geo, A. Cosgrove's; for the Thanksgiving sea- son. |. The 18th anniversary of the martyF- Fdom of Elijah P. 'Loveioy was observed by the Alton. Ill.,, Daily Republican in it's issue, of the 7th inst. The only sur Iv.vor ,f Sl,a h..a safshd IF is a Wilmington man. We copy from that Ipaper kindly sent us by Mrs. Geo. k. Hopkins. It will. doubtless interest the older readers of The Press in this yiCinIty and elsewhere:
 "Fifty eight years ago, this evening, Twas enacted in, Alton. the fearful tragedy which threw a pail over its prosperity and darkened for half d century the hrfellt prospects which crowned the opening life of the new city on banks of the Mlssls- Isippi. But we do not propose to review those scenes, the details of which are fa- miliar to our readers, except to call at- ttention to this anniversary, and to the fact that one of the brave defenders of the press still survives in the person of Hon. D. Burt Loomis, of Minnesota, who, as young man of twenty, participated actively in the defense of the building on the night of LovejOy's death. For sev- eral years MT. LOomis and Mir. Henry Tanner, of Buffalo, were the only sur EvivOrs of the defenders, but the recent !, Edeath of the latter leaves MT. Loomis the hsole survivor. MT. Loomis comes from an old and honored family. He Is 8 son of Rev. Hubbell Loomis, who, genera tion ago, was a familiar figure on the streets ot Upper Alton, and whose years were prolonged almost to the limits of a century. He Is a brother of the late Prof. Elias LoOmis, of Yale College, the eminent mathematician and astronomer, ahd author of many text books. He Is sl- so a brother of Mrs. Cyrus Edwards, ,ol Upper Alton, and an uncle of Mrs. Geo. ' K. Hopkins, of this city. David Burt ,Loomis was born at Willington, Conn, , IIHpril 17th, 1917, and came west with his kIather's family in 1882, locating in Upper TAlton, where he clerked for two or three kyears for Robt. Smith. He also, at one time, cleI ked for Russell Scsrritt, at riots he was clerking for Godfrey t Gil , man, in Alton. During the day of No vamber 7th he was warned, by some
 friend, not to sleep in the warehouse that l night, as was his custom, but he consider
 ed 1t his duty to do so, and in this way
 came to be numbered among the defend
 CTS of the press. In early times Mr , Loomis removed from Alton to MInneso l to, and has made 1t his home ever since
 being engaged most of the time in th' lumber business, with Saltwater as hil
 headquarters. He was brave soldie , throughout the war for the union, render l ing heroic service from the beginning k r the close of the conflict. He was an oM cer of Minnesota regiment, and passet through many engagements, but cam home without wound. In addition t'
 his military service, Mir. Loomis was act , i've in, the public affairs of his adopte' state, and served several terms in tn AIA