The Press., 1898-08-11
COVENTRY. South Coventry

COVENTRY.
 South Coventry. cThe Register is on sale at the post ofilce each The W. c. T. U. meet on Friday with Mrs. H. P. Topliff.
 Miss Winefred Dunham is the guest of Miss Eugenie Hanks.
 Louis Phillips is going to Watch Hill Saturday to spend few days. Mrs. Wm. Ledoyt and daughter, Gladys, are visiting at Samuel Ledoyt's. E. A. Tracy and family are at Tim pond, Maine, for months stay. Miss Emily Hall went to Meriden last Tuesday to visit her sister, Mrs. Baker. Mrs. Mary Parker and daughter, Lila, are spending their vacation in town, as is their custom.
 Mrs. l.. B. Hicks of South street. after an extended visit, returned to her home last week Wednesday. Last weeks item should have read that Harlan Greene and family had moved to Turnerville, not Somerville. D. HI. Clark and Miss Addie Hyde re- turned last week from 8 weeks stay at the summer home of Mr. Brown at East Lyme. Miss Julia M. White, in company with the Grub club, of which she is a member, has gone to Freedom, N. H., for a few weeks. s~4as
 Miss M. K. Starr of Hartford is board ing at John Payne's for few weeks. She taught school in this place few years ago. r..--
 Mrs. Henry Sweetman, daughter of Mrs. Mary McCann, died in Ansonia last Sunday. The body was brought here Tuesday for burial. Beside husband, she leaves five small children.
 Rev John Pierce is now on the camp ground, and will preach and administer the sacrament in the Methodist church here next Sunday. Rev. c. H. Purdy will occupy the pulpit in MT. Pierce's church at Attawaugan.
 Private Paul s. Fraser of Camp Haven was home on 8 furlough over Sunday owing to his not feeling we'll. The boys in Co. E. think that they may be dis banded and sent to their several homes about the first of September.
 There has been a dramatic company here for about a week. They have given an entertainment in A. O. U. w. hall ev. cry evening except Sunday. The com. pany and their entertainments have been the best this town has ever had.
 A game of ball was played at Eagleville last Saturday between the Eaglevilles and South Coventry's. Although the Eagle villes had a very strong team the score was r to 10 in favor of Coventrys. Oul few errors.
 Henry Dalton, formerly an employee of Elijah Robinson, but now a seamen or the battleship Texas, was in town last week on three days furlough. He gave a very interesting description of the bat tie that the Texas took part in, only one man being killed.
 (From another correspondent.) A show for a week at the A. O. U. W hall indicates there is money in town. MT. Atkins, senior in Brown univer sity, sold 300 maps of New England il Columbia, Andover and Coventry.
 Frank A. Spaulding has commenced t. cut the hay on his Wellwood farm. Tn hay crop is the largest for 20 years.
 Mrs Cross, whose barn was burnet quite recently, lost nice horse Sunday Mir. Cross formerly lived in the nortl parish.
 (Which shall it beP" Just now tn lquestion, "Who shall be nominated b the republicans as senator ?" is agitatin the minds of voters. Several good me are named, but the ones best qualified fo \. office should be the choice
 Mrs. Mary, wife of Joseph Fretwel Parker, left her husbands home soon al ter the trial reported last week, went t , one of the tenements owned by her O Lake street, and there stayed until Err day, when she was taken by the deput sheriff to Holland, there to serve terI v of fifteen days. There is pathetic sid to her story. She came to town seven C eight years since with her husband an little son. As renters they have worke hard, the husband and wife together the field. After a time they took se' a ond farm, where at night they vel reused by fire which burned all the house furnishings. A kind neighbor too them in, ard then the third farm WE hired. Here the trouble began. The a were attendants, when in England, of tt a established church; here there was | church home for them. Working har and at so unusual labor for women, MT
 Parker made few, if any, friends anon & her own sex. Her son, a bright boy an
 we'll cared for, attended day and Sunda | school. A little daughter came, but z h far as we have knowledge Mrs. Park, h had but little time for leisure her fello workers in the field were men. La. a week was the court and the sentenc k The woman is in Holland jail, and tt a men are at liberty. A. s. PARKER. UNION. J Mrs. M. A. Williamson has returned 1
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