Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-09
JEWETT CITY
George A. Haskell Secures Available Site for Soldiers Monunent-Why Bass Will Not Bite-Defeat for Pi- rates at ClayviiIe.

George A. Haskell purchased Tues day morning of the Ashland Cotton company the Ashland boarding house property, corner of Main and Ashland streets, extending east on Main street to the Ashland store property owned by A. R. Young. and south on Ashland street to property owned by Mrs. Nathaniel Wilcox. This is the prop erty owned by Mrs. Nathaniel Will cox. This is the property which has been under discussion for more than year as a possible site for the sol :liers' monument. which will be erected as soon as the rapidly increasing fund shall have reached the required figure. week ago. Warden l. F. Lewis warned meeting which is to be held tonight Wednesday, to consider a special offer which would have been available from the Ashland Cotton company for this property as the mon ument site. The deeds have now been , passed to MT. Haskell and as no one Is more interested in the monument project than he. and as it was with possibility of this end in view that he obtained control by purchase, at a time when there was every indication 1 that the property would be sold this week to other parties, it is pleasing to 1 learn from MT. Haskell that any con sideration that would have been made l by the Ashland Cotton company to the | monument committee will also be made 1 by him. It is expected that something definite may be done this evening. Low Water Cause of Poor Fishing. 1 Bass fishermen at Gardner lake and Quinebaug lake are reporting no luck for the last two weeks Such condi- l tions, exist in the local ponds. In Beach pond, as an example, the reason 1 is obvious. A party of Jewett City l fishermen spent last week at Beach
 pond with but two strikes. The pond 1 is at low water stage. The bass as well as thousands of small perch. the
 natural food of the bass have taken to the deep holes, with the result that Mir. Bass. the fresh water autocrat
 is not hungry and refuses the most 1 tempting bait One fisherman, look
 ing over the side of the boat. on one 1 of the sand bottom reaches saw a 1 large bass or feet down. He tried 1 him with helgramite, frogs and fine 1 live lingering sinners, of all of which l the bass took no notice. By the first | of September there will be good fish, 1 ing again
 1 Saved Horses Life.
 Several boys passing through the 1 Baptist church sheds la Monday aft l ernoon found a horse hitched to a l surrey down on the ground, evidently suffering great pain. Andrew Burdick
 ran to Driscoll Bros market in the | Finn block for help. The two men l the horse to his feet, and Timothy Driscoll took him to the office of Dr. Cole, where quickly administered rem edies prevented a bad attack of colic i The horse. valua ole animal, is owned by Edward A. Geer of Griswold
 | New Floor for Lighting Plant
 The regular monthly meeting of the warden and burgesses of the borough | was held Monday evening. After the l nf ho al vii i~l,t it was voted to instruct the commit l tee to have a new floor laid at the | electric light plant, either of wood at cost of $50, or of concrete at S70 The following bills were voted paid:
 P. B. Driscoll s53.14 J. c. Delaney $2: Chapman & Tripp S5; electric lights for streets s1s1.S0; library $5.se:
 A. A. Young, Jr,, hose and ladder com
 pany. No. l: s572; $, N; P Telephone
 Timothy Shea s19.75: Timothy Con-
 nelly ss; Thomas Murray ss.25.
 Pirates Defeated at ClayviiIe.
 The Jewett City Pirates were de- feated by the Clayvilles by score of t6 to ?. Score by innings: R. H. E.
 Jewett City 0 0-2 lClayville 0 0 1 3 ? 0 0-6 1 The lineups:
 | Jewett City-Henry If, McLaflin p,
 D. Blake 1b. l.. Rainy ss, B. Richotte
 2b, R. Smith 3b. Babcox 9b, D. Jo- doin If. Garran Of, F. DriscolI If
 Clayville-Witch c. Williams p, Clair 1b, Clair 2b;- Aurthnr ss, Smith 3b, Me Guire If, Mourse of, Haskell If.
 The players had a clambake after
 the game, which all hands enjoyed. ] There was also a large attendance at the game.
 The feature of the day for Jewett City were the races. A mile and a fhalf dash between McLaf1in of Jewett City and Joseph Mullen of Providence
 and Witch of Clayville, first prize was 1 won by McLaf1in second prize by Null len. One-mile dash, F. Garon, Jewett City and Joseph Cove of Fall River, Tom Me Burns of Chestnutville, first