A Fish Story

July 5, 1895

   The pickerel weighing five pounds six ounces, caught by Alfred Johnson at Smithville Flats, Chenango county, was sent by Thomas Kelly, Esq., to his brother supervisor Edward Nash of Norwich.  This fish has quite a record.  About the 1st of Sept. last, Eph Loomis, while picking cranberries about the pond, lost a silver watch and pocket piece.  Upon dressing the pickerel the watch was found, imbedded in its throat, running and the time correct.  The watch was a stem winder, and the pressure on the stem when the fish swallowed food has wound it up daily.  The dollar pocket piece was found in the stomach.