Connecticut western news., 1916-08-03
STATE EDITORS FEED
Guests of WInsted Chamber of Com
 merce at Highland Lake.

merce at Highland Lake.
 Highland Lake, Winsted, bore on its placid bosom Saturday afternoon a large proportion of the brains and beauty of the state, when the members of the Connecticut Editorial Associa- tion, with their wives and sweethearts, sailed around that beautiful pond in speedy motor boats, after a sumptuous dinner at the Highland Lake Hotel, served by Mine Host A. M. Grant.
 It was an ideal day, at an ideal place, and the spontaneous response to Presi- dent Fred W. Lyons call for vote on the motion of thanks to Editor Man. chester, of the Citizen, and tho Win. sted Chamber of Commerce, through whose cooperation the visit was plan- ned and the program successfully car ried out, showed the profound appre. citation of the visiting editors and their ladies. Automobiles were provided by members of the Chamber, in which the visitors on arrival, were conveyed about the town and shown the many points of interest, the boat ride follow. ing the dinner. ..
 It was the first visit of many of the scribes, to Winsted, and their curiosity had been whetted to keen edge by the things they had read and heard about the place. President Lyon strained his eagle eye watching the water, to see if he could get glimpse of the celebrated pickerel that wears green silk stockings. Secretary Barnes, on the auto trip, looked to see if he could see the famous COW climbing into the top of sour apple.tree. President Drake, of the Winsted Chamber, finally informed him that the cow had died "only yesterday" having been cleo. trocuted by getting tangled up in the wires at the top of an electric light pole which she had mistaken for an apple tree. "The poor animal couldn't see very we'll, MT. Drake explained, 'as she was 90 years old, come next November, and her eyesight had failed" However, he pointed out the cows favorite apple. tree, from which, by remarkable coincidence, every apple and every leaf had fallen off the instant the old COW died. Editor Hill, of the New Haven Register, kept his eye peeled as his auto passed every poultry house, on the lookout for the Bantam hen breeding litter of mock turtles. George Woodruff, of Litch- field, watched out, along the shores of the lake, for the Angostura cat that catches crabs by using it's tail for line and bait. Johnny Hersam, of the New Canaan Advertiser, remarked that he couldn't go home happy unless he got good look at the tralned rattlesnake that stations itself beside a railroad crossing and shakes its rattlebox when train js coming, to warn automo. bilists to stop before crossing the tracks.
 The ladies sof the party, however. were chiefly curious to get look at Lew Stone, the versatile genius who discovers these unusual things, and there was a general craning of necks and elevation of feathers all over the dining room, as the scribes at the vari. ous tables pointed out to the ladies that modest young gentleman, who blushed rosy red, and in his confusion put sugar in his soup and salt in his coffee, and ate is ice cream with a fork and knife.
 At the close of the dinner President Lyon introduced Editor George Wood. ruff. the prize winner in the recent beauty contest at New Haven, but the Litchfeld journalist, whose beauty is exceeded only by his modesty, actually ran away, and that ended Lyon's con. spiracy to infiict post prandial session upon the guests.
 It was a memorable day for the editors, for Winsted and for Lew Stone.