Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-29
.JEWETT CITY
Wild Duck Hunting Not What lt Was Hunters Licenses lssued-Low
 Temperature Tuesday Morning
 Apples Blown from Trees.

For the first time since black ducks were protected by law. the season for shooting is not open on them until Oct. 1. The date has always been Sept. 1st. On other game the law is off Oct. sth and goes on again Nov. 24th. thus taking two weeks from the hunt ing season, as it used to be Oct. 1 to Nov. 30.
 Time was when duck shooting in the Tadpole pond was the top notch of sport. Everything that would throw shot was called into commission on Sept. 1st. Sometimes there would be as many as a dozen hunters in one evening on this feeding grounds, where they came from the Quinebaug to stay for the night. 1t was no unusual sight in those times to see eight or ten 1ocks come in from different directions just before Sundown. There would of ten be several hundred ducks.
 At that time some elaborately con- structed blinds were situated at diff ferent parts of the pond. These times it is a fortunate hunter who gets a shot: the ducks are few and exceed ingly hard to come at.
 The new restrictions passed by the general assembly, session of 1915, say that no duck shall be taken except with a gun fired at arms length with out rest They shall not be fired at from a boat propelled otherwise than by hand, or from any floating device used to conceal the hunter, if more than 50, feet from shotN or natural growth of grass or flags, and they shall not be taken except between sunrise and sunset.
 Wood duck. which are nearly extinct in this section. are protected until Aug. 31, 1919.
 Town Clerk John Welsh has issued 41 FoIr .~ persons: John J. Herbert. Harold Herbert. Ernest Ecclestoh, William M Moonssees. John ,Moonsees, Charles H. Bromley, William Marshall, Robert Willis. H. G. Willis. W. s. Rood, Theo- dore Tetreault. R. W. Dearnley, Max Byron Sheldon, William Grenier. Jo- seph Grofmalski. H. George Wilcox, Lewis, Hewitt. Herbert T. Thurber, Clifford Eccleston, Daniel HI. Kenyon, Joseph Fournier, Lloyd Herbert, Stan islaw Bakanowsky, Asher B. Popple Theodore Robinson, Albert G. Green, John F.. Sllivan. Arthur Gaudette.
 Down to 36 Degrees. Monday night was the nearest ap- proach to freezing that this section has seen- At 3 a. m. Thursday light breeze sprang up and saved the day; as it was. the mercury had dropped to 36 degrees. <APpAC III lflS SeCIlOn report that nearly two-thirds of their apple crop is on the ground. as a result of Sundays "sou' -wester'
 Flock of Wild Geese Taken. In connection with duck hunting in Tadpole pond, a story is told by an old-tfme hunter, the truth of which is vouched for by many local sportsmen. Many times. even recently, wild geese in their migratory flights in the very early spring have stopped a while in Tadpole to rest One night, after two or three days of severe northeast | storm weather. a flock of geese being | stormbound and tired, dropped into l Tadpole about sundown. During the 1 night the weather cleared and came on | much colder. In the morning the half i inch ice that covered the pond pre- vented the geese from getting away | The railroad section men, of whom the late Addison Learned was fore man. sent word to the town, and ,mer l and boys with long poles and guns
 hurried to the pond. Boats were se- cured and the whole flock, over 40 were taken. Change in Train Schedule. Jewett City people who have beer 1 leaving New York via the Gilt Edg,
 express at 5.33 p. m- to connect at New London for Norwich, being able tC make the last trolley arriving here a 1019. according to the new schedule | must leave New York at 5.1O D. m | What has been known here as the o'clock p. m. mail train now leave, I Jewett City at 6.44.