Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
UNCLE EZRA AND THE COMMISSION
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my chances on ten akers, half kulti- vated and half cared for.
 Question 4.-Do the farmers in your nelghborhoood receive from the rail roads, high roads, trolley lines, etc, tho service they should reasonably have?
 Answer: Yes, railroads plenty near enuff. can hear them whistle. I'm in favor of good roads and only hope that the law and the state commissioner will give us our moneys worth and not haul any more sod out of the ditch in the middle of the rode as has been done durin' the 18th century.
 Question 5.-Do the farmers in your ] neighborhood receive from the United States postal service, rural telephones. etc., the service they reasonably should expect?
 Answer: Our Rural Free Delivery service is all rite and grstely appreciated but we'd just like to have Uncle Sam let his carriers bring packages bigger than a newspaper. We would like to be able to step to the telefone when we bust blow sheer and say, Please Mir. Implement. Man, send a double XX 2ll44 blow sheer by next mail, " and if he don't have it in stock down in the neerest town, then ring the central agin and say, "Give me Sarykuse," and get a blow sheer from headquarters for the same amount of postage. About our telyfones, there ain'ta Twin being what ever reasonably expected" in regard to a telefone service. Everybody unreason- ably expects that the operayter girl can get everybody for everybody in 30 seconds at the longest, don't make any difference whether the party they are calling for is out to the barn or the woman up to her slboes mixin' bred. It's the telefone op- eratur's fault when the wimmin set wash ..dIshes every morning and tell what they are going to have for dinner. No, we'll never get what we expect in the telefone service until every body has a direct individual hne or wireless con- nection wirh everybody else on the earth. Etc. in the question covers a multitude of things that don't think we get the service we reasonably expect. But, MT. Commissioners, put me down for good roads, and parsells post
 Question 6.-Are the farmers and their wives in your neighborhood satis factorily organized to promote their mutual interest?
 Answer: Several belong to the Grange and several don't. There seemed to be sort of dark discoloration in the bottom of the ballot box which was the chief reason that some are not in, that are out. Then the wimmin folks have their pro- gressive rag bees and questions regard ing the mutual interest of absent mem bers are discussed. Then there's Sile Perkins stove pipe congress that meets every mite down to the store and there ain't much left of mutual interest when they get through dissecting it.
 Queston 7.-Are the renters of farms in your neighborhood making satisfac- tory living.
 Answer: If they ain't it ain't their fault They are all Twin; the land A gettin' poorer every year though, M Y
 Question s.-Is the supply of farm labor in your neighborhood satisfactory?
 Answer: No. Sknrce and mity par ticular. The fellers what ain't got no work ain't worth hiringas a rule, they can't bear more than a week s prosperity at a time.
 Question 9.-Are the sanitary condi. tions of thefarms in your neighborhood satisfactory?
 Answer: Some are more satisfactory to the doctor and undertaken than any body else. No drains or cess pools, ,slops and dishwater thrown just as near the door as can be and not run back in the house. Swill barrel in the woodhouse next to the creamer and not fly screen in the whole ranch. Dead horses lying on top of the ground north of the spring Cows too long for the bedding in the stable and the hired man spits on his hands when he goes to milk just as though he was splitting hickory knot.
 Say, MT. Editur, guess I'd better quit for I'm getting excited and may go to Washington and meet that Coun- try Life Commisshun if Bub gets his air yoleplain working before spring.
 UNCLE EZRA