The Press., 1898-05-05
COVENTRY. South Oevsufry.

COvENTRY. gouth Coventry. (The Register is on sale as the post ofnce each week9 @
 H. F. Dimock was in town Friday. Mrs. John Rogue continues very i'll. Chicken-pox, mumps and measels are in town. 8 A ##&# Fruit trees of all kinds give promise of abundant bloom. ...... .... ..s.. .- Sylvester Robinson of Bridgeport call ed at Mrs. Abby Palker's, Sunday. Mrs. Wright's sister, with her family, has returned to their home in Iowa.
 Mrs. Edyth M. Barrett, who has been i'll of fever, attended church Sunday.
 Thos. M. Durham Is planning to go to Hartford to attend to his business there as soon as his strength will allow. | The vinca in the burial lot and on the grave of the artist, Benoni Irwin,is grow ing and will soon cover the ground. | Mrs. Dewilda Hutchinson went to Mansfield, Mass, last week to visit her parents, MT. and Mrs. Horace Lawton, both of whom are quite feeble.
 A massive granite block, ordered by the late Dr. Dean, has been placed in the
 Dean burial lot. On the side facing the street is the inscription, Charlotte Curtis,
 wife of Dr. Henry s. Dean 1S23-1s96.
 The individual cups for communion service in the Congregational church were
 used for the first time last Sunday. The
 gift came from the kindly thought of Mrs.
 Sara M. Kingsbury. A vote of thanks
 was extended to her by the church and also placed on the records by the clerk.
 The wife of Chas. Lincoln died at her
 home in district 9, Saturday, April 30
 aged 40. Her husband and eight children survive the eldest, 8 son, ,aged seventeen
 the youngest a daughter not yet two years. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Sydney H. Barrett, Monday, at
 the home, burial in a cemetery in Wind
 ham.
 From another correspondent.1 } Mrs. P. H. Peterson is visiting hel
 daughter in New Haven.
 Mrs. Edwin Bingham is visiting at hel brother, Charles Kingsbury's. MT. and Mrs. Louis A. Kingsbury spent Sunday in Northampton, Mass.
 Just at present the woolen business is very dull, owing to the war scare. The ladies' whist club met with Mrs. J. M. Wood yesterday afternoon. Miss Lottie Hodgson of Idaho Is .at Mrs. Charlotte Hodgson's for a visit.
 On Tuesday the yard in front of the
 Methodist church was decorated with ar IN1d ho 1o 1 front of it.
 There will be union temperance ser. vice in the Congregational church next Sunday evening. It is expected that q
 speaker from out of town will be present , BRIMFIELD.
 E. D. Webber, the barber, is able to be out, but much crippled from his injuries ! Mrs. Carroll, an inmate of the towr ! farm, fell and broke her hip few days
 ago.
 About 40 bound volumes have beer added to the public library within a few days.
 It being the 1st of May, assessors ar, making their annual calls from house t, house.
 The hour of the evening prayer meet ings has been changed from to 7.3 , o'clock.
 f George Sherman is making extensiv t repairs on his buildings. T. J. Hynes i
 doing the work.
 Mrs. Nellie Smith of Wales has beer 3 canvassing the town for the life of Mrs Mary Livermore.
 A party who went spearing one nigh
 last week in Little Rest captured over 7C fish, some weighing lbs. Many parties from out of town visit tn, . new hotel, and all pronounce it most fine
 ly equipped for a country house.
 Miss Alice Bacon has accepted the DO
 sition of matron, for the remainder O the year, at Mt. Holyoke college.
 The Junior Christian Endeavor societ, , will meet at the Congregational churcl
 on Sunday afternoon every two weeks. | Herbert George of Sturbridge wa 8 thrown from the electric car on which h, [ runs as conductor, on Friday last. ant
 had his head badly cut The house known as the Dwight L,Im bard place, East Brimfield, occupied b, 8 P. Dion, was burned last Friday night
 Thought to be incendiary. Edwin B. Allen, formerly of this town ' and Oscar Kinney, formerly of Holland . have bought hotel in Leominster, wher they have commenced business. Miss Georgena Whitehouse has re , turned to Brimfield and will open tn
 house for the summer, after spending tn
 winter with friends in New York.
 Miss Eunice Lumbard, while out walk B ing a short distance from home, fell, in vl turing herself so badly that she had to b. . carried home. Her many friends hope , may prove nothing serious. yI Many of the Brimtield people will b, r glad to hear that a new hall for the Wor
 cester South Agricultural society will b. built soon Gin Sturbridge), T. J. Hyne . of Wales being the contractor. The stove in the junior department o 2 the center school, in some way not known 2 was broken during the noon recess ol Thursday last, the hot coals falling ol a the floor and starting a blaze. A littl
 fellow, less frightened than the rest, rar > for water and soon put it out. As tn
 day was cold, there was no afternoon ses sion and no school on Friday. r A game of ball was played Friday af : ternoon between the high school team (2 ' of Warren and the H. F. academy boys ? Seven innings were played, with SCOT