The Press., 1901-06-13
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
[Items of local interest taken from the columns of The Press, thirty years ago.]
June 1B, 1871.

J. Converse, having seatmed all the liY6l trout peadaaute.sfle b lss ponds.xequel lks the hbys to stop bfingingvlsm. X Over $1OO has been pledged iretnIs vii- lage from the Congregational church for the Congregational house in Boston. A citizens meeting to organize fire. company and discuss protectiveS meas ures Is appointed to be held on the green in front of the Congregational church to- morrow evening at 7.30 o'clock.
 MT. Glover finds some antiquated doc ments in sorting over the old paper stqolRl which peddlers collect about the country. We have now before us marriage cer- tiflcate dated Coventry June 16, 1922, wherein Henry Brown certifies to having that day married Jonathan Thatcher of Mansfield and Rachel Williams of Coven- try.
 l.. G. Winter has sold back the stove and tin ware business in this village to Jacob Glover, his late partner, who will carry on the shop once more in connec- ton with the same business at the Hol- low. MT. Glover will move the shop to the card clothing company's building on South street, and MT. Winter contem- plates establishing dry goods and milli- nery business in the rooms now occupied by the stove store.
 The tannery and currying shops of Messrs. Smith & Chandler, on Westford avenue, caught fire early on Sunday morning and were entirely destroyed. Before alarm was given and the people collected the fire was too far under way (the contents of the buildings being gen. erally of very combustible character) to permit any efforts to save anything. A storage building standing 8 little way apart might have been saved. had either of the engines kept in the village been brought to the spot, but for a desire to keep them untarnished for thenex street parade, or for some other reason they were not brought out. The loss will somewhat exceed $S,0O0, on which is an insurance of $7 ,500, of which $2 800 is in Inc Holland County Mutual and $5, ,OOO in Hartford companies On Wednesday afternoon, about 8 o'clock, fire was discovered in the barn of Jacob Glover at the Hollow. Over a thousand pounds of paper rags were stored in the barn, and one theory is that they in some way generated the fire. When discovered the barn was full of dense black smoke, so that 1t was impossible to enter 1t. The barn was burned to the ground with all its contents, including a horse for which Mir. Glover had recently refused $225, which was probably suffo- cated before the flames broke out. The barn stood close by the house, and all in the central part of the village, contiguous to hotel, stores and mills. The house was considerably charred and injured, and that 1t was not burned Is due to the efforts of the citizens who fought the flames. A chain of men passed the filled buckets to the fire, and chain of ladies passed the empty buckets buck to the pond. Several extinguishers also did good service. MT. Glover's loss is esti- mated at about $500, which Is partially covered in the Holland company. BIRTHS.
 Holland, May 30th, 1871, son to Du- rand w. Holman.
 Westford, June 2d, daughter to Geo. R. Johnson.
 Staffordville, June 9th, daughter to Edwin N. Washburn.
 MARRIED. - At Coventry, June 7th, 1871, by Rev. w. J. Jennings, Albemarle Loomis and Ruth Eliza Hutchinson, all of Coventry.