The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-20
sOUTHING TON.

Sept. is.-There is row or corn ,rowing beside the track of the Canal .ailroad opposite the mill of the southington Lumber and Feed conn many. This does not show that tbe railroad company has a light tranae and that corn is growing in the road bed of it's tracks, The corn is beside n switch track. and as the soil is good there it will be good enough for fodder
 Arraneements should be made for n band concert the middle of October on inc park, and if successful another about the end of october.
 A week from next Monday Is election day.
 If YOU furnish your own barrel you can get cider nHy at the mill for seven cents per gallon. which is about s2.25 n barrel.
 The saloon license question will be voted upon at the coming town election. and, as in years past. the interest taken in the question will be such as men take in all questions in which they are thoroughly in earnest.
 A company with capital stock or ten thousand dollars could find proiita- ble employment here by buying suita- ble land to carry on the business or truck farming. There Is plenty of land here that under proper tillage can be made to grow vegetables which can be sold to the early market or used in canning. The undertaking Is of such character that 1t can be best carried on by company rather than by private individual.
 This place should have town clock. A good place for one Is in the tower of the hose house If 1t would not inter- fere with the hose. The old clock in the Congregational steeple cannot be made to go only for few days at time in periods four or five years apart.
 There are a number of pleasant drives in this place, and one of the number takes you past the Southing- ton Water Co.'S reservoirs and to Woodtick, small village in the town of Wolcott. If one wants country scene ry this is a good drive, but one of the finest drives Is over the regular trav- eled road between here and Waterbury. A little this side of Waterbury one will see a pretty residence owned by practicing physician, and little fur ther on is a grange hall and a nice looking chapel. The village look that this little suburb of Waterbury has would invite an author to live there and write a novel about 1t.
 A good appearing picket fence has been put up around the grounds of the South Center school house instead of the old fence.
 Main street in front of Bissell's store has been improved by coat of slag.
 The grounds at the state Capitol in Hartford cannot hold their own for beauty with our own little park this season, as the grass on the park here has been kept green and is not burned nor scorched in any part.
 A little fellow more ambitious than the rest of his companions succeeded in climbing up the east side of the Sol diers' monument the other day, but could not get up high enough to get on the back of the soldier who stands on the pedestal.
 Those who are interested in the young mems reading room should bear in mind that it will not be long before we will have long nights in which read ing will be a pleasure to many. Addi- tional papers and periodicals will be welcome.
 This is the third day of the state fair. Have you won a prize?
 Is this borough large enough to have the post-office department take notice of the fact that a government build ing is something all our people would take pride in? A suitable site is one immediately south of the Southington national bank.