Norwich bulletin., 1921-01-14
EWETTCFY

IL IS only on rare occasions that any considerable number of people outside the membership of the fire company are privileged to enter the engine house and appreciate the homelike arrangement of the large parlors on the upper floor of the house on East Main street. There were eighty-six present at the smoker on Wednesday evening, among them per haps. twenty not members of the con- pany. a --..-
 Hanging on the walls are paintings and pictures, among them three not to be seen anywhere else because there are no duplicates. One is life size erayon of the late Captain Ira F. Lewis, long one of Jewett City's well known citi- zens. an ex-waraen of the borough, and builder of the Riverside Grammar school The crayon was reproduced from a photo graph of the captain when he was forty years of age. On the east wai,zin a frame, is a full page of a paper con- taining the account of the shooting of the late P. B. Driscou which occurred, one night in February eight years ago. When he in performance of his duty as night patroiman attempted to frustrate the de- signs of a gang of yeggmen who were at work on the safe in the JeEett City postofice An insert shows fine photo graph of MT. Driscon. known in ali parts of the state as fearless officer. He never recovered from the effects of bull let which he received in his breast There is also an account of the un- derers. Here was an instance of forti- tude and plain bravery. unsurpassed in l the history of Griswold.
 On the east wall, near the fcrennan's ] chair, is a painting done in oil, by Miss Alice A. Brown of the Falls of the Quinebaug, more famous in the way oi l rugged natural beauty than any other l locality in this section. The older in. habitants of the town will never gazs I upon its grandeur again. The younger l inhabitants never saw it, for the two great ledges were blown out when tn, Aspinook was built and their big. Six
 hundred foot dam is carried straight l through the Falls. The picture is paint
 ed with the viewpoint from the westerr l or Lisbon side, and is true to the origi nal, even to certain easily recognized trees and rocks. There never was bu one painting made, nor can there be, ex ceDt it be copy from Miss Brown, handiwork, now the property of the fire men.
 The various short speeches made Wed
 nesday evening by the gentlemen who ad
 dressed the chair were as varied in fern | NAaA A3S9iiAOAh dS IT. IS pOSSlDie to imagine
 As is often the case the best rtory to1.
 Is often the true one. Here iJ the on,
 related by Agent L. M. Carpenter of th Ashland Cotton Co. It is alleged to hav
 occurred in the Riverside Gramma
 school. in one of the lower grades. Short Ely after the morning session had opened
 A wee girl. sitting in the front raw o
 seats raised her hand. The teacher, not 1 ing the hand and eager smiling face O
 the child, said: Mary. what is it?" Tn
 little girl quickly replied, "Oh! teac,le,
 pr. Jennings came to our house thi
 morning and brought me the tiniest littI
 baby sister," Quicker than thought. dozen hands. with snapping fingers Eer
 raised, with the exclamation in choru, Teacher! Teacheri we all came fror
 Dr. Jennings'"
 Father McCabe was in true form. an
 the enjoyment that was his, for the uri, ilege of speaking in lighter vein, wa
 evidenced by his characteristic smile. Rev. J. W. Payne told of some enc,
 nous fire engines he had seen when
 boy, In his native city of Cincinnati
 some of them. he declared could hard]
 be housed by the whole room in which I