Norwich bulletin., 1922-02-20
DAN1ELSON

4 Ssx weeks ago q pqerson at that
t1-ie Unidentified. mailed q young, live
HIllxStor to Henry D. CROSBY, the
Academy street florist And when Mr..
Crosby opened tho package that came
by parcel post, not knowing what said
package contained, said alligator leaped
OFT and Topped from a. table onto the
Soor ard all was CONSERVATION and every
s1e was tremendously surprised.
II due time. after the fright given
ire members Of the household and the
dog and cat, ct. al, the young alligator
was taSen out in the greenhouse and
D-zceo IN an iuEprovised box with q
screen over it AMI a call was sent out
AZ 70 advice for feeding the young gen
rieIsan. Ard there We, the public, left
h,-1. and turned our attention to other
sad more recent happenings, for even
Florida alligator cannot be expected to
30 much more than a ni1c-days' E-o1-
der.
Two weeks ago the alligator escaped
ron his box In the greenhouse, and
we since those who have known about
the eESzpe, especially the young and I'M
-~z-1ed wezrers OF urbuckled over-shoes
have awakened every morning with q
dread OF finding the youngster-he is
a.9'ut IN inches IN Ien=th--in one Of
I'd overshoeB with ali the buckles (hor-
80 thought tightly buckled up-just
Ike q married woman might wear them.
Ca ono imagine anything more terri
5iee
Eut on going dow into the basement
o.. TIE greenhouse 10 speed uD the heat
g. - Al effort 10 offset a new Weather
lis7 who has been trying to make a
equation by trying some 10 degrees be
'o1r zero stunts on this community, Dan
Sc Sullivan, who works for Mr.. Crosby,
found the young alligator at the week
&c, carDe6 out where he ashes drop
down, Just under the dreboX, eating
6ahiia bulbs and reading the latest edi-
lions Of Florida papers here available,
&c. ing TIC newest dope about the lucky
ores from the north who arc now in the
ecu, h. while q lone southerner like the
Yong alligator, warns his scales under
s white hot dreoox filed with Goals from
Pennsylvania.
The two weeks during which the ALI
Eztor has been missing nave succeeded
81 making something Of 3. roughnecz OF
hsl, When found he was irnpudent to
tho degree - Kissing and swapping AZ
~. Sullivan. Somehow he had man
aged to keep fat and sassy. as the say
NJ e. and very much resented lJeing
gathered up and taken back 70 the box
which is so wei covered that IS IS hoped
particular alligator must be credited
wa something more than ordinary n
tonlEeusce, however. for he never ventUr-
e1 outdoors and into the New England
winter when he might have done 50 had
l-- desired He was content to stay
inside and hunted around until he found
e-eapang quarters at the nearer. or
Which even the Florida climate hasn't 4
ing
ETnHE1yss eldest resident, Mrs. Ces.irc
r)upuis, who would have been 1o4 years
eS age, March 4, died Saturday at her
So<ce on Furnace street. This renlarka-
bic woman was a native OF Canada but
had bsen resident IN the United States
So- many % the later years of her long
NE For yeverai years past she has liv-
ed with her GRANDSON, George Dupu1s
Gad family. For well over Z. century she
retained her faculties and neighoorhoo6
residents recall that up to within {
brief period OF her last illness she wa
R5ie 20 care FOR her OWL room, ever
G1scirE the rugs and doing other suct
work incident to keeping it IN order. Lit
Tie Of her early history was recalled or
Buudzy. even 10y her relatives, but thert
Is no doubt az to her being over a cen
Jry old, as ghowhn by the records filet
L. csn1ection with her death. Joseph Du
puts Of School street is Z. son Of the de
csz5sd-
A. scheduled, tho hearing relative t.
The matter Of the town furnishing trans
nort2tioa for students attending Killing
y High school from outlying sectionI
o. the town was held Saturday at i
O'clock before members of the tow
school committee at the office Of .Su
pe-intendent Farm OF Killings schools
- the town hall building Tn.l1,d;r,
rneEoers Of the town school co-rrnitte
about a score were present at the meet
.ns. Only one voice was raised in PRO
csSt against the transportation plan
While several repre5enta4tEve Of thu