Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-21

rolls. muskmelons and lemonade The committee was w. c. Terry, Ransom Young, W.P. Holmes and Edward Lewis. The table committee was Mrs. w C. Terry, Mrs. M. H. Bartlett Mrs Eino karjaa and Mrs. George Briggs
 Miss Bridget Sullivan died at her home on East Main street Friday night after long period of ill health. She was the daughter of Jeremiah. and Abby Sullivan and was born in PaclRerville. She came to Jewett City when an infant, her father having bought the house where she has lived since then. The only houses stand ing on East Main street at that time in | that vicinity were two-those now occu- pied by D. L. Phillips and Miss M A. Burdick. Miss Sullivan and her sister Mrs. Hannah Shannahan were always prompt to aid in time of trouble and were the best of neighbors. Miss Sullivan has received the most devoted care from her ! sister. Besides this sister she is sur Fived by two brothers, John Sullivan of Jewett City and Jeremiah Sullivan of Taunton, Mass
 MT. and Mrs. Thomas Wakely and son and Mrs. Harold Shippee are visiting in New Jersey.
 Misses Helena rifin and Alice Barnett spent the week end on Fishers Island. | MT. and Mrs. Byron c. Wilcox and | three children of Hasbrouck Heights, N | J., were in Jewett City Sunday while l touring New England. With Mrs F. C. 1 Wilcox and her daughter Ellen of New | London they attended tine Baptist church morning service.
 1 The discussion started out on the. cor ner over month ago. and until it re- ceived it's final quietus the other day, there was much local expert snake lore propounded, and the number of people here that had actually seen hoop snake increased with peculiar rapidity, "Seein as how there aint no sech critter" Does the hoop snake really exist? Most people hereabouts believed there were such | snakes, by heaTsay, at least There was
 greater excitement every time the dis cussion got to the floor. Many freak bets weer made and a considerable number of 1 good hard dollars were placed pending | expert testimony. Doc Wallace the
 Lisbon nimrod, and "BilT' Soule, sportsman of earlier days, had both seen
 a hoop snake. Mir. Wallace is e fox hunter of we'll known renown. One day
 after an unusually long chase he was
 coming home and was part way up the long Hampton Hill when his attention | was arrested by distant hum. not un- like the sound made by the apprUach of l angry Italian bees in swaruing time, or l a flight of the one-tine passenger pigeon The Doc" had barely time to make a l flying leap to one side of the road when the great snake, like a spokefeSs cart | wheel, swished by at lightning speed. The 1 Doe hastily gave r a ''coupla barrels"
 of heavy buckshot. which must have rid l dled the reptile. but he never sackened
 speed, just kept on with everything in
 high.
 MT Soule, also knew where a hoop
 snake lived, and any pleasant day in the
 early fall viistor to his habitat could see him. Sust after dawn, rolling out for his health.
 As result of the following letter from
 a recognized authority, the Burroughs Nar.ue club in answer to Charlie Carey's inquiry, both mentioned hunters will part
 their hair in the middle until the next
 democratic president is elected:
 Dear Mir. Carey:-
 The hoop snake is myth and positive ly does not exist outside fiction. You have only to consider a snakes way of getting over the ground to see that it could not move at all If it could lift it's tail from the ground and the head also. A snake depends for locom0tSon on grip 1 ping the ground by means of movable plates (caHed sc1tas) on hs belly. These turn slightly edgewise when pushed for ward and grip the surface on which the
 body lies, thus shooting the body some what forward with each new grip of the
 scutes. The New York Geological society
 offered prize of 5000 for a live hoop
 snake which could for single moment
 be made voluntarily to taloe the hoop form; but though this pri1e was adver- tised widely, nobody ever succeeded in producing a, hoop snake.
 A whip snake is a different proposition. We do not know that 1t Is ever called
 hoop snake-the Latin name is Zamenis
 fiageliifrmis and it is usually called
 coach-whip snake Distributed from South Carolina southward through Florida and westward to Arizona; also , northern Mexico. It resembles in habits
 the black snake or racer, can move like | lightning, somewhat cannibaliStic, alSc eats small rodents, birds and eggs; will not take frogs. Can climb, but lives or the ground. Is not a constrictor, but
 swallows the quarry while struggling
 Harmless but a fierce dipositton- Vibrztei
 the tail rapidly when angry.
 If you can get at Raymond Dtmars The Reptile Book at public library you will find the description and discus
 sion of the coach-whip snake at page 2se Cordially yours.
 BURROUGHS NATURE CLUB. The Ashland Fish and Game ProtectiT,
 association held it's first annual held da!
 and clambake at Camp Moro on tn. bkulneDduB IlNeE OunOaS drpeIIOOnL 3 chowder was served at 2 o'clock. Tn, 7 bake was opened at 4-and included clans
 sweet ccrn, s7eeet potatoes and lobster
 Watermelon and soda were also on tn. bill of fare. ) In <tfe ball game between sMcNiooi.i r married men and Rioux's single men, th' married men won, IS to 10. In. the races
 Earl Hiscox won the fat mems race and
 received a years membership to the club
 The sazne man and Austin Harris wor r the two-legged race and the prize was th' 5 same
 : John LeClaire won the stngle men, 7 race and a years membership. A. L Stebbins had his wireless outfit on tn.
 ground and several concerts were enjoy ed. L. NJ. Carpenter was in charge l George Parks of Norwich assisted at ths
 bake. Charles Landfsh of Preston. with e
 newly purchased automobile. ran into Harris of Lisbon on the Newent road no afternoon The wagon. which was loaded with tin roofing, was demolished Tn, man and horse were seriously injured
 Deputy Sheriff John Dolan arrested Land
 fish and State Policeman Nichols appear
 ed in short order. MT. Harris was brcugh
 to Dr. F. E. Rainvilhe's in Jewett Cit,
 and later was taken home. He had
 hemorrhage after his return and Dr. Pau
 F. Gadle was summoned and Sunday tn
 man had another hemorrhage.
 Dr. F. E. Coles found the horse il
 pretty bad shape. Landfsh was charge,