Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-16
JEWETT CITY

Forty-four members of Faith chapter, No S2, o. E. S., motored to Moosup. Friday evening where they were guests of Rebekah chapter, No. 27. The party included Mrs. Katherine E. Phillips, Mir. and Mrs. James Blair, NIT. and Mrs F. C. Whiting Mir. and Mrs. A D. Tripp, Mir. and Mrs. L. Kanahan, MT. and Mrs. Frank Durfee, Mir. and Mrs R. F. Cheney, Mir. and Mrs Charles E. Maynard. Mir. and Mrs. N B. Park hurst, MT. and Mrs. W. T. Crumb, Mir and Mrs. H. E. Paul, Mfr. and Mrs. Robert Robertson, Mir. and Mrs. E. Nj. Gray, Mir. and Mrs. W. J. Robertson, Jr. MT. and Mrs. G. A. Haskell, Mrs. Will jam Hill, Mrs. w. R. Burdick, Mrs. Frank Wilcox, Mrs. E. E. Gilbert, Mrs. J. P. Post, Mrs. William Johnstone. Mrs N. J. Babcock, F. B. Cheney, Miss Ma bel McBroome, Miss Helen Gray. Miss. Annie Robertson, Miss Isabel Robertson, Miss I. R. Robertson, Miss Ethel Thomp- son, Miss Sadie Thompson, Miss Margery Brewster.
 Friends of David Hale Tanning in | town have received invitations to be
 present at the celebration of the sixtieth
 anniversary of the founding of this bus i mess at the Worcester headquarters on l Tanning Day, Wednesday, May IS, at | 10 o'clock to four o'clock at the plant Of
 the Royal Worcester Corset Co, Wor- i cester, Mass.
 William J. BrickIex, with John Wyatt
 as a passenger, was driving up from
 Norwich Saturday afternoon Part way
 down Tunnell hill, with considerable
 traffic coming both ways, Mir. Brickley S | car became unmanag geable, it is believed | on account of defective steering gear
 The car left the road. went through l the fence and down the steep incline in the twinkling of an eye. Save cut
 on his head MT. Brickley was uninjured
 Mir. Wyatt received several cuts anc bruises which are not believed to be se-
 rous. Dr. and Mrs. I. H. Mclaughlin
 and Mir. and Mrs. Walter Field were
 close by in their automobile and helped
 the men out of the wrecked machine anC
 later brought them to their homes 1T
 Iewett City. The machine, a big tour ing car, was put out of business. man living in the town of GriswoId and yet some years on the sunny sid of eighty has found in and old ac count book and diary a record of where , | when a young man. he worked twelve
 days mending the eel weir in the Quin
 ebaug, near the farm where he was
 hired man Between the railroad bridg , in Jewett City and the tunned some si
 miles below there are the remains of n
 less than nine eel weirs Lear, wtthou, the one time regular spring repairs, an 5 the action of the ice and high water 0 e many winters have left little less tha e the long, harrow shaped rows of falle = stones.
 These long lines of stones were buil out into the shallow bed of the strear like the letter V often extending dow
 200 feet to the point which was i nid-stream. Here a pot was made C e wire twigs which would hold. severs = bushels. Record shows that often afte
 a frosty spring night as many as carSS body iHL of great eqlS wl tiC : be taken from two pots in the morning Z One of the favorite ways of cookin g was to treat the fish, say, about a thre '' pounder, with wood ashes, thus all trat = es of slime were removed from the ski
 Then the eel was literally Strung" frol j. end to end on musket-ramrod an ' turned round and round before the fir IS The narrator could seenlA' he eaic ls "even then to hear the rich fat sizzling
 He added that every swallow was > benediction." There is well founde A tradition here that once 8 man who VIZ le said to be three, or maybe four, shoe le in the wind, attempted one night to cro
 the Ouinebaug just below the town. F ID missed nlS IoctlDE oH the slippery Ston 50 and was carried down by the current le the point of weir, where he lodged
 the pot. The water being low and war re he decided to take a little snooze ie the dim light of, early morning tt " owner came to investigate his nigl O. catch. Seeting what appeared to be
 man, out in the trap, he ran to the tov T. little ways above and shouted u t. alarm. Several drowsy villagers hurri F7d.
 m making great struggle to wade sEho, 1s As was the custom at that time his pa III taloons had been tucked into his gre " boot tops. Said pants were much ba CT ged out in parts and appeared excee
 ingly active. When he was finally 2, n- ten ashore and ernptied out, several v we were there to see, aver that this no,