The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-04
SOUTHINGTON.

Oct. 3.-In his report, Acting School Visitor E. R. Newell says: We enter upon new school year under new con- ditions By vote of the town at its annual meeting the school districts have been consolidated and the newly elected school board have elected MT. Albert Candlin, an experienced and successful teacher, as superintendent of the schools, with the understanding that he is to employ his entire time in looking after their interests and in de- Veloping plans for their improvement. That this step will result in the eleva- tion and greater efficiency of our com- mon schools there can scarcely be a doubt. In speaking of Lewis High school he says that the importance of furnishing every facility needed for its progress and improvement cannot be over-estimated. It is emphatically a school of and for the people, and should receive their united support.
 Webster R. Woodruff, now of New York city, who still keeps up his resi- dence in Connecticut, was here Mon day and voted in Forestville, where he lived for some time before going into business in New York.
 This is the week to cut second crop of hay. Farmers consider hay their best crop, and when they can cut it the second time the same season are in so much money.
 The day after election finds the peo- pie here with but little to say about the result of the local option liquor question, which took up all their atten- tion the day before. Those who are in- terested in the question only for the time being have already forgotten that there was an election, while peo- pie who are interested in a larger way are studying statistics and are making the best of them.
 Box rent at the post-of1ice is now due.
 A Southington man who has placed a wire fence between two divisions of his peach orchard has utilized the wire fence for a grape vine arbor and it makes a good one as we'll as a novel one.
 Any one who wants to can visit the rolling mill by getting permission from the office. It is an interesting sight to see iron mongers at work. At this mill the iron is made mostly from scrap, and this comes from various parts of the state and wherever it can be had. The bulk of it comes over the Canal railroad, but there is no little amount which is brought here by the wagon load by those who are junk dealers or h11X nd cal n16 T tc f,,+o to watch the men who bring old iron here in wagons. Sometimes they come singly and again in pairs, and if it is their first visit inquire for the rolling mill along the streets until they finally see the tall iron smoke stacks. The air of importance which they have is one which comes to them from thor ough knowledge of their business. The interest which they take in buying old scrap is in greater degree than when selling it, as they generally buy it with the expectation of making find" which may make their purchase worth two or three times the amount paid for it. A find" consists in finding among the old iron a lot of lead, brass, copper or other high priced metal, and this the dealer carefully takes out, and when selling his heap only sells iron. The higher priced metal is sold either to brass foundry or brass rolling mill. The scrap which comes by carload, unlike that bought from the small deal- CTS, frequently contain brass copper, lead and like metals, and this is taken out by the yard hands when the iron is being assorted. There is some iron ore used and this may be found piled up in the yard, and this looks something like coke, but is quite heavy.
 The question of earning a livelihood is one which grows more and more in- teresting to people living in towns, cit ies and boroughs. This community comes under the latter class, and to say that its people would like to have plenty to do is to say what is true, The shops have been idle a great deal the past year, and it is hoped that this will not be the case this winter and next spring, but that all may earn enough to make home happy with The con-