Show ANNUITY GIVEN TO WIDOWS origin of ci long tim custom in mas M chaett ch uett village Is a lost in antiquity one hundred of the largest and ad most tender herrings Is ie the th annuity offer to all the widows residing with in the confines of a town of cf pembroke a small village it la is a time honored custom and its origin la Is beyond recill recall of the oldest inhabitants memory the weirs aro are to town w n property john le farge Is I 1 in charge of the and he sees seea to it that every ho householder gets all the herring he be la Is entitled to io always remembering that no widow li Is overlooked on tho the extra each male resident of the town la a allowed to come to the weirs and catch herrings barring tor for which he pays CO 60 cents but any of the widows of the town may lave their fish at that rate and in addition nib fish are given to them free according to the old custom lively scan es are enacted as the residents rush to the tha brook where the th fishing la done Often oftentimes timea as an many us 25 or 30 ar are waiting ng their turn the brook bears the name of bar ker stream after a family which settled there in the early part of the seventeenth seventeen ih century within a throw of the weirs barker baiker str stream earn or brook as aa it hus baa been called lu in later years flows into the north river at boundary but the place where the old homestead used to stand la Is the ahw only one in its ite entire longto length Is permitted prom from to herring ar are taken take from the brook every year but the only fish sold of this number are the onea left by the householders who do not care to take their share these are ar sold cold to merchants the revenue going to the town treasury |