Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1904 — Colchester’s Oyster Feast. [ARTICLE]

Colchester’s Oyster Feast.

Famous indeed is the Colchester oyster feast, and to be invited is considered the highest compliment the town can confer not only from the importance of the function, but because at that meal is an unlimited supply of the finest obtainable natives, of which some sacks are consumed. Even from the times of the Itomans these oysters have been celebrated, says the London Chronicle. Exclusive rights to the oyster fisheries were granted to the town under a charter of Richard 1., and iu the reign of Elizabeth horse loads of oysters were accepted as gifts by the courtiers of the time. Massinger’s Justice Greedy commences his day with “a barrel of Colchester oysters,” a statement that shows how altered are the customs of today.