Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-22
JEWEiI CITY

About this time of the year the com mon, everyday skunk comes into it's own
 The black and white, pretty little kit ten'' sort, may be said to abound in this vicinity to the pecuniary benefit of a great many, who trap the animals in the south and east part of the town. Last
 fall a Preston man, well known in the borough, cleaned up over s400 on his sea
 sons trapping and a large per cent. of
 the pelts he sent to Chicago for market
 were skunk skins. He admits to close
 friends that he was not altogether savory
 on the occasion of some of his returns
 from visiting as many as 90 skunk traps
 Yet. he says in places where it was pos
 sible to make use of the figure 4 dead fall, there was nothing to fear from "clogne du civet" It was only where steel
 traps had to be placed away down in burrows between crevices in le1ges, that he occasionally had what he calls "warm work" Then, it was the wood shed for him, when he got home in the morning But this story is to tell recent ad- venture of quite another sort Local au- tomobile drivers. in the night often tell of meeting skunks in the road, especially | bright, moonlight nights, and, they say i too, that the pluclky little black and white 1 fellows often stubbornly contest With l them the right of way and generally win
 
 night, not long ago. it was clear. warm, 1 and bright moonlight. One of the local men was driving up from down in the region of Westerly. He was wheeling | right along" as he says, when away down 1 ahead in the dim light of the moon, shin i ing through the trees discerned what | he first took 10 be man prostrate across ! the road He slowed down and ap- i preached with caution, not without some I 1,Dz- for V1rD 1 a lonesome part of the well known Long | Woods. off in an uncertain direction be- l low Voluntown. Visions of the many 1 horrible tales of robbery and holdups that 1 have come from this section ran rapidly 1 through his mind. As he neared tho object it moved. and seemed to be in sec 1 tions With his engines throttled away down in low, and when within penny: | toss of the object, it arose in three dis l tinct parts with six pairs of le\ two pair' | in each section, and slowly filed off into
 the roadside shrubbery. Examination witl ! the aid of a fashlight showed that three | slunks had been enjoying moonshin' bath, stretched at length in a row, in tht warm sand of the roadway. The drivel told in town of his adventure and sait that he wished them" skins were tack r ed up on his barn, but some how he didn' care to take them at that time.
 | Friday afternoon. the body of Mrs. liar riet Cole was brought here from Mil
 ford, Mass. Funeral Director Gilbert me
 the funeral party at the Lisbon station whence they proceeded to Voluntown
 where services, contucted by Rev. Johi , F. Thompson were held in the Baptis ] church. Burial was in the Robbins cem tetery Mrs. Cole had been residen
 of Voluntown until she went to live witt , her son, J. W. Watson, in Milford. Mir
 and Mrs Watson came with the bod, from Milford
 At half past ten Sunday forenoon, on : of the largest flocks of geese ever sec here passed over the town. south bound
 They flew the lowest of any flock of re cent record. There were over 100 an
 they were at an altitude but little abov the steeples of the borough. The reaso I has been discovered for the big flock tha V passed over last week losing it's bearing