The Press., 1904-12-14
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south Coventry.
 Mir. Palmer, father of Mrs. Henry A. Keech, is ill.
 Miss Hettie Tisdale and Miss Grace Tisdale were in Hartford over Sunday.
 Mrs. Sylvia M Parker is spending the day in Hartford with her son, H.. H. O'Neil.
 The Ladies' Whist club will meet with Mrs. William o. Latimer, Fri day afternoon.
 Eugene W. Latimer spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Frank F. VII Hams, of Terryville.
 One day last week an eel that weighed 74 pounds was caught in the tubs at Tracy's extract works
 Mrs. Jessie Clark of Willimantic has been visiting Mrs. William La throp and other relatives here.
 Emil Londine has moved to Eagle vilIe, where he has secured work ID the mill, which is starting up.
 Arthur Gardner and William Un- cles, who are i'll with diphtheria. are improving and there are no new cases
 There are few cases of measles in the village, and quite number of school children are i'll with chicken pox.
 The o. E. society will give social and baked bean supper in the vestry of the Congregational church this evening. z
 Edward Noble, who has spent 8 few weeks with his mother, Mrs. Hannah Noble, has returned to Sa- battus, Me.
 Miss Edna A. Newell, principal in district No. 1 was absent from the school three days last week because of the illness of her father.
 The school in the South street dis trict will close Friday. There will be special exercises in the afternoon, to which the friends of the school are invited. -s
 The social at the Congregational church last Wednesday was we'll at- tended. Eighteen dollars were realized on the supper and sale of mystery packages.
 Mrs. Ruth Lillie of Baltic is the guest of her brother, Addison Kings bury. Mrs. Lillie will go from here to Rockville, where she is to spend the winter.
 Rev. Mcknight of North Coventry, who occupied the Congregational pull pit Sunday morning, preached very interesting sermon. the subject of which was Patience. The text was Hebrews 10 :36.
 o. E. society officers have been elected for six months as follows : President, Rev. Nestor Light; vice. president, Fred A. Warren; recording secretary, Ethel Barber; correspond ing secretary, Hattie E. Coombs :; pianist, Hannah Potter. s.
 At the meeting of the Ladies' Aid society held at Miss Addie R. Hyde's last Wednesday a loaf of fruit cake was cut, which was one of the loaves made for the silver wedding annivers- ary of the late MT. and Mrs. D. H. Clark, twenty eight years ago.
 Horace Newell died at 1 o'clock a. m. Sunday, after an illness of nearly two years with Bright's disease. MT. Newell was 66 years of age and leaves a wife and one daughter, Miss Edna A. Newell, and one granddaughter, Miss Winnifred Stoughton. The flu neral was held at the house at o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Rev. s. F. Maine officiated. Mrs. Ernest LeDoyt and Mrs. Henry Nye sang.
 Last Thursday afternoon, as Miss Lucy M. Perkins was walking down the hill below the post office, she fell upon the sidewalk. She was assisted into the hospital, and it was found that her left arm was broken above the elbow. Dr. Mason reduced the fracture. Miss Perkins remained at the hospital until Sunday afternoon, when she was taken to A. M. Woods, where she will stay until her arm is healed. ......
 At a meeting of Wangumbaug grange held Dec. 9th, the following officers were elected: Master, D. A. Turnbull; overseer, William Wolfe; 1; lecturer, Miss Ethel Christie; steward, Wm. Smith; assistant steward, F. A. Spaudling; secretary, Helen Potter ; gate keeper, Dewitt Kingsbury Ceres, Ethel Barber; Pomona, Faith Potter ; Flora, Grace Tisdale; lady assistant steward, Ida Barber; executive con- mittee, F. A. Spaulding, M. P. Col man, D. Kingsbury. A class was ini- tiated in the first and second degrees. A banquet followed.
 SOM ERs.
 Kibbe's hotel has been having hot water heating apparatus put in this week.
 Silas H. Perry attended the meeting of the state board of agriculture in Hartford as delegate of Somers grange.
 MT. and Mrs. Fred Pease from New Britain spent Sunday in town with MT. Pease's parents, MT. and Mrs. George Pease.
 Rev. Mir. Root exchanged pulpits with Rev. MT. Bliss of Hampden T1...-.or.ok;o~oJ oburob Crndov MT