Wells High School - Crimson and Gray Yearbook (Southbridge, MA)

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J SOUTHBRIDGE COAL CO. Dealers In COAL AND WOOD W. M. EDWARDS Office: 315 Main Street Phone 161-J Yard: Railroad Avenue, Phone 252-W Gaumond ' s Taxi Service For Funerals, Weddings, Parties, Worcester Trips Orchestra Accommodations DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE Packard Limousine — Studebaker Sedan Res. Phone 19 Southbridge, Mass. LYNN-BROCKTON SHOE REPAIR We Go Far To Get a Customer —But We Go Farther to Keep Him 40 Hamilton St. Southbridge Mass. Phone 524 Compliments of THIMBLIN ' S BARBER SHOP 280 MAIN STREET E. F. DAKIN CO. CANDY, CIGARS, ICE CREAM SODA NEWS STAND 307 Main Street Phone 452-M GEO. C. SHEPARD CO. C. E. Hanson, Reg. Pharm. SOUTHBRIDGE, MASS. McKINSTRY ICE CO. Dealers In ICE, COAL AND WOOD Price — Quality — Service 6 DUPAUL ST. PHONE 519-R WILLARD g£S SERVICE STATION We Repair, Rebuild and Recharge Any Make of STORAGE BATTERIES Lewis Battery Ignition 411 Main street Tel. 381-W Through Service We Grow i PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS

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MJERAT r A CURIOUS EXPERIENCE This summer I spent two weeks of my vacation in a small town on the coast of Maine. Most all of the regular inhabitants of the town were either lobster or herring fishermen. There was one old man, a her- ring fisherman, who had given over his business to his son, but he still maintained his fishing camp on a small island about three miles from the coast. One day he came to me and asked me if I would like to go out to Poverty Knob. I did not know what he meant and so I in- quired. He said that he called his fishing camp Poverty Knob because not even grass could grow there. I agreed to go, so he told me to meet him on the beach at two o ' clock the next afternoon. The next afternoon found me on the beach at two o ' clock. I waited a short while and he soon came along. He launch- ed a small boat, not as large as the boats that are rowed for pleasure on our inland waters, and told me to sit in the stern of it. I did as I was told and he started rowing for the island. In the whole three mile row to the island I did not see him once turn around to look where he was going; he just rowed and rowed. Finally he said, Well, guess I had better stop rowing now or I ' ll miss the is- land entirely. And just as he said this he came up to his mooring place. He tied his boat to a rope which was attached to a pul- ley on a post out in the water and to a pul- ley on the island, then he pulled the boat in to the landing and jumped out. I followed soon alter and stopped to look at my sur- roundings. A small humn of rock rose out of the ocean. It covered about half an acre. On it were two buildings, both about 12x20 feet; one was the house, the other a shed which was filled with fishing nets and gear of every sort. At one place a large motor boat was beached which, he explained, was his son ' s and had not as yet been launched as the herring run had not yet started. I chopped some wood and he soon had a fire going in the stove. He then cooked our supper. After supper we rowed over to an- other islard nearby and dug some clams to go fishing. We then came back and went to bed. I could lay in bed and see straight in the ocean towards Europe. I could see the lighthouses on some of the islands eighteen miles out in the ocean, winking and blinking. The next morning we were up at sun- rise and as a boat was supposed to come in to get what few herring there were, we went over to watch the process. I saw what appeared to be a cage with- out a top, which was sticking out of the