Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-16

kind in nearby sections of Massachu- setts and Connecticut. and no better animal ever chased coon trail than Rush. NIT. Taft has owned him for nine years, getting him from West Virginia, where he was born five years before his advent in the north. Rush was known to every coon hunter ill this part of Connecticut, where he was frequently brought by his owner for the accommodation of hunting parties. He was of the kind that never faked
 nor faltered, never gave any false alarms, nor quit the game no mat ter how hard the going happened to be.
 There may be better coon dogs than this one" MT. Taft was often heard to remark, but never saw one and never expect to. He is the per feet dog.'' Sixty three eoons have come to their end before Rush's trail- ing during the time that MT. Taft
 has owned him and the dog showed many scars of his hard battles with the sharp clawed animals. Until Rush's strength failed a year ago he was always in on the coon bunting trips of parties from this city and those of the Bohemian club of Dan- ielson.
 Hooters Scrap Over Home Teams.
 Boston business man in Putnam Tuesday afternoon when the wires were telling of what an awful drub- ping the Giants were handing to the Red Sox, Joe Wood and the whole general beanery: Why those Red Sox are a bunch of quitters! I knew they'd blow, confound eml They had the whole thing sewed up and now they
 have gone and lay down. Can you beat it? Joe Wood-the mutti-let- ting that bunch get away with that! Say, they can't win this game. any
 way, l know these Red Sox, and, be- lieve me. I'll be laying odds on New l York to win tomorrowl
 The whole trouble is this Red Sox | outfit has been eulogized and praised 1 until they have the idea that all they 1 have to do is to go out and look at New York and McGraw's men will
 drop dead They've got swelled heads
 But mark me, if they lose this series ! I'll quit baseball forever. Had 1t won; 1 l know they're throwing 1t away, the dubs! Quitters!"
 ] New York sympathizer: They
 never had a real chance to win this 1 series, these Red Sox any way! They
 have been lucky, that's all" 1 Boston business man: Say, you, I | you ten even that Boston puts it al | over New York Wednesday, Now come on! That New York bunch neveI did and never will see the day Wher | they measure up to the Red So1 1 classi''
 And this really happened at the To- | cal station and the Boston business I man was a fine looking specimen of al
 American citizen, too, and probabl! sane on any other subject than base i ball.
 | Squirrels Appear at Meal Time. Residents of Sunnyside and Churcl
 street and in the vicinity of Wood
 stock avenue are getting amusemen
 these fall days by supplying nuts fo
 the squirrels that are tempted to
 come down out of the nearby grove
 and woods for their winter supply o food. So confident have some of tn
 squirrels become of their safety whel
 dealing with their philanthropi friends that they do not hesitate t go as far as entering homes to picl
 up nuts that are placed on the floor
 for them. The employees at the Flu
 reka silk mill get lot of amusemen
 out of supplying nuts for the littl
 animals. Capt. John Murray has som
 of the bushy tails so well trained tha
 they come in to the police station fo !, a supply of food. and at the home C
 Samuel Rich and Alderman G. Ale
 Hawkins the squirrels feel perfectl
 at home, making regular calls. In fac
 1t is related that one squirrel ha reached the stage where he appear every morning and chatters excitedl
 until he gets what he knows is read for him.
 City Notes.
 l Mr. and Mrs. George Gascoigne C Cleveland, O., are guests of the for l, mer's mother, Mrs. Carrie Gascoign | of South Main street.
 f Mrs. John Comins and Miss q
 Elizabeth Clarke spent Tuesday il Worcester. KMWl
 Mrs. Helen Wiley has returned frol l weeks visit with her sister, MT !. William Holmes, in Westerly. R. I. 5 MT. and Mrs. Walter Wheaton (