Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-15
JEWETT CITY.
Profits From Firemen's Ball About $1oo Organization Which Guards Borough Property-Death of Famous Fox Hound-BasketbalI Games.

1 eSted in the powers. one or thelr 1 great days was fifteen years ago, told | in The Bulletin December F, 1899, it | being the race of Q picked crew from 1 the company against time. The feat ] to be accomplished was to run with ] their hose jumper which weighed 620 ! pounds, from the interior of the hose | house to Lisbon bridge, a distance of 1 2.566 feet, the time limit being three minutes.
 They did it in two minutes and fifty seconds.
 1 G. II. Prior started the race with 1 two strokes on the Baptist bell. E. H. ! Hiscox was referee and time keeper. l The winners were Eugene Carroll, 1 Charles Connell Morris Shea, John ! AIcCusker, Joseph Cahoon, Joseph Far 1 rell. P. F. DriscoII. James Burbee, Jo- sepl Russell John Hannon, Timothy | WeIch. Joseph Gill, J. D. Sullivan, Pet l CT Rivers, Thomas Connolly, John l Fitzgerald and William Robertson. ! the finish. The road was frozen and 1 very rough. Every one of the win ners is alive; but could they do the ! trick today?
 Lincoln Social. 1 A very pleasant evening was enjoy 1 ed by a. large gathering at the Lincoln { social at the Methodist church Friday 1 evening. Among the attractions was 1 the Valentine heart. It contained 1 large number of written features, from ! which each one, while bhndfolded. se- 1 lected one, which he then read aloud. Games and refreshments were enjoyed.
 StarIinss in the Borough. 1 Local bird lovers are much interest 1 ed in tAe flock of English starlings 1 which is about the borough. They 1 were seen several times Sunday. Until l within q year or two they were strang- CTS in this latitude. A child found 9 ! frozen starling last week and brought 1 it to Dr. Jennings for identification. 1 These are the same birds reported as 1 battlede1ds. Not quite as large as i a robin they are grayish-black with a ] long, slender, yellow bill. At PIainfieId Dedication. 1 The large party from the borough 1 who attended the dedication of St. ] Paul's Episcopal church in PIainfield | included MT and Mrs. George Reed | Mrs. John Potts, Mrs. w. T. Crumb, 1 Mrs l.. T. Burleson and Miss Jean l Burleson, Mrs. T. 0. Keen, Mrs. H. D. i Hewitt, Mrs. H. E. Paul MT. and Mrs. l Perle Whitford, MT. and Mrs. Lee 1 from Griswold, Mir. and Mrs. William ] Montgomery and daughters Miss Ser l tha Montgomery and Miss Susie Mor- 1 gan.
 Mike, Famous Hound, Dead.
 Amous Phillips famous fox hound, 1 Mike, died Saturday, at the age of 13 1 years. This dog was one of Q litter of nine puppies bred by J. C. Phillips ! of Lisbon.
 It ic an almost unheard of coincidence 1 that in the litter of g every one was ] Q male, and they all became more or less famous fox hounds. The eighth one to die was Duke, owned by Jesse l Phillips. The father of these valuable dogs wGs owned 13 years ago by Dr. 1 Smith, of Norwich. MT. Phillips
 records prove that over 100 foxes have been shot before these two dogs, ! Mike and Duke. Many hunters have 1 followed them and testify to their speed and cunning after matching that of Reynard himself. No stone wall walking or back track doubling of the game ever fooled them.
 Borough Briefs. Mrs, R. IT. Howard had charge of the reading room at the Slater library many men visitors these days to see | and admire the handsome portrait of David Hale Tanning which is hung on the east wall where the afternoon sun gives it a fitting light
 Mrs. J. H. Tracy spent the week ] tnd with her sister in South Man chester.
 1 C. \. BUrIeson of Schenectady. N. Y, is the guest of his parents in Sylvan dale.
 Mrs. J. s. Jeffers has returned after several weeks visit with her daughter, l Mrs. F. L. Smith, of Ware, Mass. Ernest Brown of South Manchester was visiting his mother ill the borough Sunday
 Sunday until late afternoon was a fine day, with moderate temperature. There were a. large attendance at all the churches.
 M.-B. Consolidated the Winners. A large bunch of fans saw q fine specimen Of basketball at the Bijou on Saturday when the Methodist-Baptist Consolidated defeated the Sacret Heart team in a close and exciting game by of thrills and spectacular shots and taken on a whole the teams were very near evenly nlached. This was the first of a series of three games the
 next game to be played next Satur- day.
 Manager Melvin was praised by sev- eraI persons for his fine work as ref cree, being very fair and deciding some
 tight places so that both teams were
 well satisfied.
 The lineup was as follows:
 H.-B. CON. SACRED HEARTS
 W. Benjamin '.-.'''''' if Cotter
 --oA'794 '''''''i; if A90'a'' J. Mclean ............... D. Blake C. Benjamin .'''....-..''''''' J. Barry rg
 Thompson .............,.,,.. Raney
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 TaftvilIe Defeated. In fast game following the Vet
 erans of this place defeated defeated a
 strong Taftville aggregation by a, score of II 1-2 to II. This was a fast rnatcl and with q little practice the Veterans
 will make q strong team. They arc expecting to get some fast teams hert ! in the near future.
 Planning Future League. s Napoleon Bonaparte Pepin, anc
 Chief Scout O'Brien were in town or
 Sunday looking over the ground for . future league. Old friends met then ' at the car and they spent most of the day looking over the old place. -A secret counsel was held with Danie Shea and Edne Raney in regard to the
 next season games.