The Press., 1896-02-06
COVENTRY.
South Coventry

A. s. PARKER, Local Editor and Business Man
 ager of Coventry Local Register.
 Copies of the Local Register for sale at the post office, South Coventry.
 The union meetings are to be con- tinued during the present week.
 Mir. Carr has removed from the vil- lage to his home on Fucker street.
 Mrs A. F. A. Perkins is out of town caring for her mother, who is i'll at her home in Massachusetts.
 HI. F. Dimock's ice houses are being filled with nice ice from the lake.
 Mrs. Weaver, a relative of Mrs. Rose Kinney, South street, was received into the Methodist church Sunday. @ Arctic grosbeaks in large focks have been seen in various places about town.
 Oscar Bowers has recently painted his barn.
 --Georgie Topliff, who has had long illness, is much better.
 -Lottie Hutchinson took first prize at the whist party at John Fuller's and booby prize at the one at Mrs. Holmes, Columbia. A party from the village was entertained at E. L. Hutchinson's Friday evening.
 It is expected there will be public grange meeting in the near future
 Watson Rider had an attack of dizzi- ness when going to Mrs. Stewards for milk, Monday morning, and fell from a low offset. Henry Edwards and w. H. Small helped MT. R. home, and at the present writing, Tuesday evening, he seems to be growing worse. Dr. w. L. Higgins is attending physician. l Miss Bessie Peterson has music schol- ars in Willimantie.
 WELLINGTON.
 There will be sociable in the Congre- gational church next Wednesday evening. An oyster supper will be served from 6 to 8 p. m., price 20 cents, Usual supper for those not wishing oysters, 10 cents. w. H. Marsh will be on hand with 8 phantom camera, where all can see their friends for cents. Come and see this wonderful camera. All are invited.
 (COrrespOndence.) Meeting of the literary society to- morrow evening. Subject, Whittier.
 The Village Hill school house has been repaired, and Miss Lizzie Barrett has resumed teaching
 Rose breasted grosbeaks appeared on the Hill last week, month earlier than usual.
 It was long time since we had seen New York Sunday newspaper. What a mass of miserable stuff to wade through! Then take the cheap magazines, with their pictures, etc., the proprietors must think the people are dead-gone in ani- malism nowadays.
 Although there have been numerous cases of pneumonia, grip, influenza, etc., in this and neighbofing communities, few have proved fatal.
 The lunches that children take to school with them in these days are quite different from the contents of the dinner pails of the boys and girls of the pre- ceding generation. Now they oftentimes approximate to a college "spread." Do the parents want their children to show off in this line? Is that it? Recently a friend called on Boston's first citizen, Dr. Hale, who was lunching in his downtown office off apiece of old-fashioned ginger bread, his customary monday meal. But tastes differ.
 The funeral of Widow Ellen Coogan Carter was attended from the chapel of the Baptist church Tuesday at o'clock Rev. c. H. Brown officiating. Her hus- band was member of Go. E., 26th reg't, Conn. Vols, who died from wounds re- ceived at the seize of Port Hudson, La. She was a. resident of this town for the last twenty years. She leaves two daugh- ters, Mrs. Geo. Curtis and Mrs. Frank Wadsworth. A remonstrance against granting a liquor license to Mrs. Margaret Brown Bowler of the Square Pond hotel is being circulated for signatures.
 Mrs. Nelson Whitford was slightly injured by fall recently.
 "A morsel of gossip-how sweet it is! It shows us that other folks are nearly as bad as we are, and also that of being found out, or, at least, suspected ''
 Mrs. William Eldridge gave a pleas. ant birthday party to invited friends Tuesday night.
 A fairly good crop of ice has been housed. Although John G. Ryder has filled his ice-house, as usual, he offers ii for sale.
 Representative w. H. Hall was SC it his friends in Holland.
 Eli D. Hayes and wife now expect tc return in about a week. His eyes have troubled him good deal of late.
 A steady stream of lumber has beer going over the roads to the Willington R R. station all winter.
 Mrs. K. s. Brownell is member O. Elias Howe Post, No. 4, Bridgeport, the only woman member of the G. A. R. 1T the country. She is likewise pensionel and member of the auxiliary w. R. c At the age of nineteen, three days bride she, with her husband, enlisted in th' Fifth Rhode Island Regt, and was in thu battle of Newburne, where he was wound ed.
 South WillingtOn Correspondence.
 Mrs. Santemere has moved onto he brothers farm on the Holland side.
 In last weeks issue it should hav been Mrs. Shaffer, instead of Mrs. Chaf fee, who is taking care of Mrs. Lillibridge
 Mrs. Geo. F. Curtiss, of Stamford was in town last Tuesday, attending thu funeral of her mother, Mrs. Garter.
 It is expected that there will be al entertainment by the children of this dis trict on WashingtOn's birth-dav. Full