The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1899-08-24
COVENTRY.


South Coventry.
CThe Register Is on sale at the post ONCE each
week.)
Mrs. Theron Dnnham is visiting friends
In Providence.
j. Edwin Stanley spent last Sunday with
friends out Of town.
A number of our towns people are now
on the camp ground.
Dewitt Kingsbury recently spent few
days in New London and Lyme.
Mrs. Arthur Olmstead of East Hartford
Is visiting her uncle, Dwight Clark.
Mrs. s. A. Bottum went last week to
visit Mrs. D. Fraser in Oriskany, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Snyder are enter
tanning Mrs. Snyder's sister and her hus-
band.
F. e. Williams of Terryville, has been
visiting the past week with Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Williams.
About thirty from this town attended
the annual G. e. excursion to Watch Hill
and Block Island last Tuesday
Last Tuesday evening, quite a number
from this place went to Willimantic to
witness the play "Eight Bells"
Quite a number from this place attend
ed the entertainment at Hillside hall
Mansfield, last Friday evening and re-
port it as being very good.
Mrs. Tiff was successfully operated up
on about week ago, by Doctors W. l..
Higgins, Harry Higgins and Parker. She
had a large tumor removed, and at the
time of the writing is very comfortable.
Mrs. ]. M. Wood and Mrs. VIM. Wood
went to East Hartford last Saturday to
attend the funeral of their little neice,
Grace Hammond. 8 years old, at the home
of her parents on Sunday. The cause OF
the child's death was typhoid fever.
Rev. o. II. and Mrs. Martin are absent
visiting relatives in York State. The
Methodist pulpit was occupied last Sun.
day by Rev. John Pierce,a former pastor.
Next Sunday being camp-meeting Sum-
day there will be no services In the church
and undoubtedly many OF our towns
people will visit the camp ground.
At the ball-game held on the new
grounds last Saturday between the
Coventry nine and Hollands, the home
team, as usual was victorious. Mr.. Nc
Lean Of Storrs, pitched for the Coventrys
and did himself credit. The team bids
fair to be an exceedingly strong one. The
score was 80 to 10. The Coventrys expect
to play the Rockvilles on the home grounds
next Saturday afternoon at O'Clock. All
aae invited and collection will be taken.
From another correspondent
Mrs. Julia Bicknell has removed to one
of McCarthy's tenements.
The Ladies' association met with Mrs.
Nathan White Wednesday.
Mrs. Sweetman removes from the house
next the Congregational church this week.
Mrs. r. B. Wilson is soon to leave town
to reside with her daughter, Mrs. Henry
Brainard, In Hartford.
Rev. John Pierce preached at the M.
E. church Sunday, as Rev. and Mrs. o.
N. Martin were absent on their vacation.
A tumor was removed from the chest
of Mrs. Almlra Tiff, nonogenarian, last
week. At last reports Mrs. Tiff was do
ing we'll.
There will be no service at the Meth
odist church Sunday, as the pastor, Rev.
Mr.. Martin, Is absent on account of camp
meeting.
In addition to moneys received from
other sources, between six and seven hun
dred dollars have been raised by subscrip-
ton toward the expense Of repairs, etc.,
of the Congregational church.
The funeral of Grace, daughter of John
K. and Emma Capron Hammond, and
granddaughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Amos
Hammond, was attended Sunday In Hart
ford. A few months since Mr.. and Mrs.
Hammond buried their only son, youth
passed twenty, of consumption. The
daughter died of typhoid fever after two
weeks illness. But one daughter re-
mains.
Sarah, So, wife Of the late Storrs Ford,
died at the residence of her daughter,
Mrs George Carpenter, near Ripley Hill,
Sunday morning, after an acute illness of
many weeks, following years of suffering
from heart trouble. Mrs. Ford was the
daughter Of the late George and Cynthia
Boynton. Her two brothers, Rev. Geo.
Dwight, formerly a Methodist preacher.
now resident In New Jersey, Philander,
formerly merchant on Wall street, but
for more than thirty years resident OF
Manchester; one son, Arthur; two daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Carpenter, resident here, Mrs.
Brigham Payne, Jr.. of Bridgeport, and
several grandchildren survive. Burial In
Nathan Hale cemetery on the hill over
looking the lake, Wednesday, Rev. s. H.
Barrett officiating. A. s. PARKER.