Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-10
JEWETT CITY

Not for many a moon have the people of the borough, where money is apt to be handled in medium quantities, seen such a roll as was in the possession of the man who gave bonds in the sum of $1,000 for the appearance of the drivers of the beer trucks held up in Jewett City Monday afternoon, Prosecuting Attorney H. H. Burnham told the man that the bonds would be $500 for each man LOGO in all, whereupon the gent pulled out roll that would have choked any COW in the county, calmly peeled off a $1, 900 bill and handed it to the attorney There were plenty more, too Later the good natured judge allowed a favored few to .ake it in their hands and stroke and fondle 1t for a few minutes and one, it is alleged, more affected than the rest, pressed it to his lips and gave it a resounding smack. This is the last day the thousand buck weller boy will be in the town. and curious ones may be allowed anothec sight at the unusual visitor.
 Misses Katie and Alice Barnett are off for a vacation trip to Fishers Island, N. Y. Miss Katie Barnett expects to re- main two weeks, while Miss Alice will stay but a few days.
 Miss Katherine McNamara of Nor wich a Riverside grammar school teach l CT. is registered at The Windsor, Mon treal, Canada. The trip north was made through the picturesque Green mountain | section.
 Mrs. Thomas A. Rioux Is entertaining her sister, Mrs. George LeBonne, and son Theodore of Waterbury.
 l Misses Nellie Noonan and Frances | Donohue of Boston are guests of the Misses Shea on Mechanic street
 MT. and Mrs. George E. Wilcox of Providence are visiting Mrs. Wilcox S mother. Mrs. Ida Benjamin.
 The state of Massachusetts Is prepar- ing work on the birds of that state. It is to be published in two large volumes, with colored plates, an exhibition work in every detail and particular Edward Howe Forbush, director of the division of ornithology, is in charge of the tremen- dous task of securing accurate and re- liable data. In the annual report of this division appears a few of the letters in reply to questionnaires sent out forathe purpose of getting information relative to the manner in which a wood duck contrives to get her chicks into the water from her nest in a hollow stub on the pond of riverbank. 30 feet high The following letter from Dr. George H. Jen- nings is print
 y, Conn, says regarding the wood duck:
 One day, more than 20 years ago, while standing close by & small pond. there was a splash of water about 15 feet from the shore, and I saw young duck on the pond. I guessed what had hap | pened and looked in time to see the 1 mother bring another young duck. She l held it in her bill and dropped it when about five feet above the surface of the pond. One more was added to the num- Der. I think she saw me, and no more were brought. After waiting a short time I drove on.
 In preliminary report on some under. water activities of certain waterfowl, tn. following letter E printed:
 Everett H. Hiscox, Jewett City. Conn. writes that he was in boat with two other hunters on Aadpole pond, near tha town when one of them shot a blacl duck which dived and failed to come up They paddied to the spot The duel could be plainly seen clinging to the bot tom In three feet of water He disen gagged it with an oar, and it fioated t the surface dead, with the lily stems stil in its mouth.
 Another letter of local interest | among the other notes to corroborate tn belief that a duck, If wounded rathe than be taken by the hunter, dives an voluntarily drowns
 can give you one specific instance 0 this in October, 1918. I was hunting i a lagoon. I shot a duck and it fell in a isolated bunch of rushes. I did not g ' to get 1t at once. but waited perhaps 1 minutes When I went to get the bird was not in sight. Upon search I foun it below water grasping the base of
 rush with both feet. Its body was in a upright position with it's head stretche up. but it's bill was several inches unde water. When I dislodged 1t. it came t the top of the water. On ono or two oc casions I have found ducks with the bi sticking out of the water enougn to ge air, and on being dislodged they woul endeavor to swim away.
 
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