The Press., 1896-08-06
COVENTRY.

South Coventry. A. s. PARKER, Local Editor and Business Man.
 ager of Coventry Local Register.
 The s. c. l. A. is to meet for work in the Nathan Hale cemetery Saturday af- ternoOn.
 The Ladies' Association met in the Congregational vestry Wednesday after noon.
 The Vernon brothers are giving occa- sional concerts in nearby towns. They sang at Storrs Tuesday evening.
 The little son of Frank Topliff, who has been quite i'll, is convalescent.
 Additions are being made to the barn belonging to the E. A. Tracy estate.
 The Friday afternoon whist parties are reported as very pleasurable.
 Boating attracts many young people to the lake these pleasant afternoons.
 Thomas Smith has planted a strip of ground two successive years with pota- toes. He has used no pOisons or other device to keep off the Colorado beetle, and not one has been found during either year on the patch, while just across the street the potato vines grown by neigh bor are badly eaten. The only possible explanation is that MT. Smiths ground is shaded during the early morning by a row of naples. Growers of potatoes have before observed that vines HFde; HEaGleS trees are seldom harmed by the beetle. (Correspondence.) Bert Fisk, after assisting his father having, has returned to Bristol.
 Farmers on South-st. report a fair crop of hay.
 A new barn replaces the one burned on the Edgar Colman farm.
 The largest piece of grass ever sold standing for like price was sold by John B. Brown to Burt Richardson.
 Visitors for a week at Mrs. Almira Tiffts-her daughters, Mrs. Brown of New Haven, Mrs. Wilcox of Willimantic, and four grandchildren.
 Frank Edgerton cut as fine field oi rye as has been seen in town this season. Miss A. Bassett, of Willimantic, re- gently visited her aunt, Mrs. Chas La throp.
 Miss Ethel McTaggart, of Worcester Mass, is the guest of MissBessieC olman P. H. Peterson reports almost a com. plete failure of the apple crop on the Ma. than Hale farm.
 WELLINGTON.
 (COrrespondence.)
 Dog days and flies in earnest.
 Crops of all kinds in this locality never looked better.
 Mrs. H. H. Starkweather and son have rented the Edgerton place near the Hill.
 Grange meeting Saturday night, 9tl inst. A motion will be made to rescint the vote changing time of meeting.
 The item last week concerning Mrs Cortis should have read-Her child wal severely burned recently.
 A good and intelligent citizen in th person of Dow Ide has moved to StaffOrC so as to be near his work. It is hOpeC that the change is temporary one. Tn old Dalevllle mill help have now nearl, b11 4O1U bOWu
 w. H. Holt was telegraphed for las week to repair to the bedside of hi daughter, Jesse, who, the dispatch stated was at the point of death in Camaroa Ill.,, from typhoid fever. He and Mis- Asenath Holt, who accompanied him found her on the road to recovery. Thi enforced departure deprived sister an nephew from attending the funeral of tn late Mrs. Sparks.
 It is particularly desirable that the mu sical committee be present at the grang meeting Saturday night-so we ale aske to say.
 Miss Phoebe G. Baxter, late of Bedford Quebec, and graduate of McGill univer sity, has been engaged to teach the Soul Wilmington school. James 0. Jennings has been seriousl, i'll with sciatic rheumatism at his nev home at Osborne's mills, late Sharps He was prostrated by the heat while hay ing for Marian Knight. .s. ..
 Albert Alderman, while chopping fo J. B. Carpenter, Tuesday, cut his foot SC verely.