Show cur due westmoreland Vest moreland custom A strange custom Is observed year ly in the small hamlet of week in westmoreland in commemoration ot an incident that happened in the year 1841 that year there was a plague 0 wasps an I 1 many persons throughput the count succumbed to tha olson our sting the little hamlet holds the record tor its number of victims and in memory of the Of currence memorial tablet was enacted on the moor there now each year there Is a procession most 0 the in habitants turn out carrying insect powder and other devices for killing wasps and march to the memorial stone where a short service la held by the minister ot the parish when the service Is over a gen eral crusade Is made id search ot wasps nests which are immediately destroyed some carry guns csome rags saturated with turpentine while others carry paraffin which Is poured into the nest and a match tha anniversary Is considered the most important event of the J year country gentleman |