Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-23
DANIEISoN

Judge and Mrs. Arthur G. Bill will leave today to spend Christmas with relatives at New Rochelle, N. Y.
 The George H. Wheaton farm, so-. called near Attawaugan, has been sold by Waldo Tillinghast and Sons. of Plainf1eld, to Mrs. Anna Young, of New York, who will occupy 1t in the spring.
 Lester Bill leaves today to spend Christmas at Orleans, Vt, where he will remain for a few days.
 The temperature ran up above the freezing point in DanieIson Monday noon for the first time in more than Q week.
 Every evening and every afternoon this week the Newman Musical Com edy company will give entertain ments at the Orpheum theatre. This positively is the best "tabn musical company playing in New Englafld.-- adv.
 Surveyors of the stats highway de- partment are at work on the route of the proposed trunk line highway ex- tension from the Mazzerelli farm, two miles east Of here, to the state line at Little Rest, via South Killing ly. This is the route that people of Kiliingiy, Brooklyn, Hampton and other towns have pleaded to have im- proved for years, via this route the Providence city line is but A miles from Danieison.
 A brand new touring ear owned by Ellery Thornton of Goodyear had the forward, door on the right side smash ed in, Monday afternoon, when a big motor truck of the B. P. Winward 6 Sons trucking company Of all River backed into it, near the railroad sta ton. The truck, bound for Norwich with a load Of bales for the U. S Finishing company, was in such a po- sion that the driver could not see the Thornton car. The truck, incidental l ty, was not equipped with headlights and the driver was shy his registra- ton card, when the police asked to see i it.
 Jacob Pidge, one of KiIIingIy's old 1 est inhabitants, will reach his 9Stf l birthday December 90. He was for g i great many years a resident oa South Killingiy and is perhaps the last living man of all the famous ! whips who drove stage coaches over l the route that ran from Providence 1 through Danielson to Hartford '; years ago, and his stories of those | old days now seem like romantic tales of the dim and distant past, though they all have occurred within tht span Of single lifetime.
 1 MT. Pidge, who is staying with MT and Mrs. Oliver Bassett at tha towr | farm, near Dayville, retains his fac. uties in remarkable degree. Hit
 mind is clear and he gets much enjoy
 ment out of life. About ten years az, 1 Mir. Pidge fell and broke his hip, bu
 he recovered and gets about quit, readily He bids fair to add his nam
 to Killingly's limited roll of centen \ arians.
 Ever play tag on the ice with deer? The sport isn't common on
 in this vicinity or elsewhere, but
 game was recently staged at Beacl
 pond by two parties of local men an
 an accommodating deer who happene
 along while the men were busy wait
 ing, for the fish to bite.
 It was patent that the deer had nc
 figured on the adventure, no nor had the men. but vixen lie cam
 down the highway that cuts acres
 lower end of Beach pond and wa
 headed off by one of the party wh rushed off the pond and up into tn road ahead of the deer there wa . nothing left for him to do. but make
 sharp right angle turn, leap into tt , air and with graceful bound, cles , i the fence and brush that border u ! road and land. with his four fe, brought together to strike within circle as big as dinner plate on tf : frozen surface of the pond. P That must have been one of u | most interesting leaps that deer evt
 made, for his feet had no soon.
 touched the ice than they slid 0,
 from under hin--and the deer, sittir
 up like dog, took a slide of 20 or ;
 feet before he could scramble ' , again.
 In the meantime more than doze 5 men had been aroused from sta of inactive surprise and most Of the
 seemed to conceive the idea that
 would be @ good plan to catch Il , deer-just why no o1ie seemed 4 The deer was having dizzy time
 know a few minutes afterwards. 2 1t. Finding a patch. of snow-covere
 ice that afforded good footing A would get away at bullet like spec ! only to tumble in heap upon reacl t ing another stretch of glare ice. Tn occurred repeatedly. He was boun, ing around among the tits like g animated rubber bah, up some of u time and down at other period While eVeryDody yelled ana got in s the game. X flying tackle of Il deer by one man seemed imminer when the glare ice intervened \ form a startling climax, for as u mans flying feet slid out from und him to let him fall on his back wi
 a crash the same tAing happened the deer, who was the quicker the two and was the first up al
 away-quickly gaining the longed
 shore and running at top speed !, over the hills through the brush. \ The switching of the deer's "wni
 flag" as he bolted through the bru
 was his farewell to the dazed
 amused fishermen. M At the undertaking rooms of A. H Wood, on Mechanic street. Mond
 afternoon at two o'clock funeral SC