The Press., 1898-06-30
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 (The Register is on sale at the post of1ce each week.)
 Mrs. David Tillinghast left this place to visit her parents and friends in Plum mer, Penn, last Saturday.
 Last Thursday night burglars broke in- to the grain store of Norman Stanley and blew open the safe with dynamite. They did not get very rich, as there was no money in the safe. A quantity of silver had been kept there, but fortunately had been taken out a day or two before. The offenders helped themselves to some tobacco and cigars, otherwise things were undisturbed.
 Two of our Coventry boys enlisted last week Tuesday and started with Go. E., of WilIimantic on Wednesday morning for encampment at Mantle. They were Paul Fraser and Jack O'Brien. A number from here rode down to Mantle on their wheels last Saturday.
 The Epworth League gave a strawberry and ice-cream social in the vestry of the M. E. church on Wednesday evening.
 Miss Constance Edwin of Yonkers, N. Y., Is visiting Miss Ethel Hull of this place.
 Herman Albro of Brooklyn, N. Y., spent Sunday with his father, Henry Al bro.
 On Wednesday afternoon, Miss Hattie Albro entertained her Sunday school class and a few other invited guests. The Ladies' whist club vase ntertained by Mrs. John Ishman yesterday afternoon. Misses Hattie and Alice Coombs, Miss Lizzie Armstrong and Will Tracy took the entrance examinations to the Willi- mantle high school last week. MT. and Mrs. Walter Loomis of Hart. ford have been visiting Mrs. Loomis brother, D. H. Clark, of this place.
 Miss Eveline Purdy, sister of Rev. c, H. Purdy, Is now at the parsonage.
 Percy Barrett of Brooklyn, N. Y., Is visiting his brother, Rev. Sydney Hall Barrett.
 l MT. and Mrs. Oscar Collins entertained 8 party of friends on Monday afternoon. There will be picnic in the Green the Fourth of July. There will be an oration by Allen B. Lincoln of Willimantic, reel. tations by Miss Julia M. White and others.
 | (From another correspondent.)
 Herman Albro spent Sunday at his fathers.
 l.. E. Parker will come home Saturday to stay during the time of taking inven- | tory of stock of the U. H. Go.
 Not as planned by the committee-for "the best laid plans of mice and men aft gang agls"-but as circumstances de- termined, the fourth will be observed. Allen Lincoln of Willimantic will deliver the address, refreshments will be served by the s. c. I. s. Mrs. Irwin was in town last week.
 Walter BOynton's daughter of Branford is visiting her cousins the Misses Coombs.
 Miss Bessie W. Peterson, who has spent several months in New Haven, re- turns home to-day.
 Mrs. David Tillinghast left town, Sat urday, to visit friends in Pennsylvania.
 Miss Clara Barnes of Torrington, a classmate of Miss Bessie A. Parker at Mt. Holyoke, Is visiting at the Martin-box.
 Fred Bump, who drove for F. E. Strong of Willimantic, Is a cook for the 3rd reg iment. Paul Frazer and Ernest Squires have enlisted.
 John Ellis is school committee in dis trict 5; Fred Snyder in district 4; A. J Hutchinson in district 8. The annual this evening.
 The strawberry crop this year is in ex. cess of that of previous seasons the rasp. l berry bushes are full of buds, blossoms and green fruit. A. s. PARKER