Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-23

SSolAeEs, Wno decIared the genial e21p- per smuggled in the fish from Boston hsh pier or Fulton AtarSet and then staged a battle with lid ce a light rod and an active skiff, were bid to hold their tongues
 Meantime the credulous anglers want Washington to investigate their cnnten- tion that there is an underground pass age between the deep sea and the pond and that the water in the bottcm of the pond Is salt and being >cf greater dens- ity does not mix with the fresh water on top. They contend that the fish was alive when caught and as for the cap tain-well. he submits that the bonita was still wet when he brought it ashore and as for the suggestion that t came from salt water in the bottom of the pord-well. nobody present volunteered to taste the drops which trickled from the rigid tail.
 Passers-by on Soule street are stou- ping to look at the attractive honey d.s- play in William Johnstones window. The product came from the carm of F. L. Kanahan, in Lisbon. Peter Caron fro mthe same town marKeted 190 pounds in the borough Cae day last week. Those who for years have used honey from J. B. Palner's famoos bee colonies and have sampled Mir. Kama hans Italian special know what sur passing sweets com efrom Lisbon Tn this section. of late years, nobody has ever located the home of one of the wild swarms which years ago were fre- quently found, and quantities of honey | secured, always with more or less diffi- culty. Three Jewett City boys once found a, bee colony in the big ledge on the Benjamin farm, in Lisbon, just l across the Quinebaug from the Aspi- nook. The bees entered through a crevice between two large rocks. One | night fitted out with lanterns. pails and i a pound or so of birthstone they went to get the honey, but were so effective ly opposed by a skunk who was there | for the same purpose that they were ! obliged to give 1t over. In the trouble that ensued the honey was ruined and next day the bees were all gone.
 1 The Jewett City news in the Bulletin of Nov. II. 1899, contains the following story:
 James E. Palmer, Jr.. who with his father runs the famous Round Hill stock farm, after gaining the-necesssry permission, visited the old Blissville mill on the Norwich turnpike. not far from his home. All summer Mrs. Pal mer has been watching a swarm of bees which had made their home away up 
 1 or more fro rnthe ground. Almost any day the bees could be seen coming in a steady line from the nearby fields. bus fly engaged in collecting their winters store They gained entrance under the jet through a small crack. As a result of his visit he secured 63 pounds of fine l comb honey of the finest quality, also seven quarts of young worker bees, and their queen.
 About this time of the year occurs the massacre of the male bees in every hive The story is told in The Life ot | the Bee by Maurice MaeterEnck, how the workers stand the lazy drones hang
 ing around as long as they can, ther
 some day, at an agreed signal, they sci upon them pull off their wings and kil them Local bee-raisers tell Of thi; yearly slaughter.
 Miss AgIae Therricn and George Far.
 ravin were married in St. Mary's cnurcf Monday morning, Rev. ]. J. McCabe
 pernling the ceremony and saying thu
 nuptial high mass. The witnesses were the brides brother-in-law, Axerias Be
 sette of Essex, Conn.,, and Joseph Me
 nard of Jewett City. The brije wore her traveling suit of brown broadclotl
 and a corsage bouquet of roses. Hel hat matched the suit A breakfast wa!
 served at the brides homo. MT. ant Mrs. Farravin went by automobile tc
 spend their honeymoon at Essex. Or ktheir return they will live at the fomt
 of the brides mother. Mrs. Farravi1
 has been choir director and erganis
 for ten years at St Mary's church.
 The funeral of Mrs. William BuTni
 was held from her hovre in Norman court Monday morning. Requiem mas
 was said at St Mary's church by Rev
 Dr. Patrick Mccormick. cousin 0
 Mrs. Burns, from the Catholic .Univer
 sity, Washington, D. c. Rev. J. J. Nc Cabe was in the sanctuary. Burial va , in St. Mary's cemetery. The bearer were William Lynch of Norwich. Joh | Burns P. r. DriscoN. Patrick Oake: | John Fitzgerald and Jsremiln Sullivan , There were beautiful, pieces Of flower IIourigan Bros. were in charge of th . arrangements.
 MT. and Mrs. H. C. wsaster and chi 7 dren and Mr. and Mrs. c. A. Haske v have returned from visit at Mir. ar 7 Mrs. George Cooley's in Enfield. Whatsoever Circle of Tie King Daughters meets at Miss Ruby Thor
 tons Wedn esday afternoon.
 Mrs Frank Wilcox and Miss Jan
 Wilcox have returned from Groton Tor a Point to their home in Lisbon. Mir. and Mrs. r. T. ?. Clement ha' : returned from a weeks visit with Mir a Clements aunt in Newport.
 j. The Ladies, Aid Society of Pachaug e to be entertained at Mrs. W. B. Mon d gomery's Wednesday afternoon
 and Viva Richardson.
 Miss Hazel Liberty has returned a
 ter six weeks visit with her aunt. Mir
 ,af nd