The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-25
MONROE.
Especial to the Farmer.) { By Arthur French


 By Arthur French)
 Monroe, Oct. 25-There was a sshot time in old town" of Monroe at the tie vote election break last week. It was political hot air and hustle that was on the job. Only think of it. There were eight motor cars. loaned. hired and impressed into service of bringing voters to the polls. The lame and halt and laggards came in go<ed shape and some style and didn't get off their base in ballot marking only to the extent of few 'Austra- lians'. And by the way, the man with a jag did not show up until just be- fore the polls closed, so the scenery did not suffer, or any one else. Not even stray dog, looking for his deri- l1ct master, nosed around, in the hot air. The total vote a few more than at the annual election-showed fthe interest in the control, furthermore it proved that some work was done in getting so many electors to the polls and it's being talked about yet, as the battle of "Tivota.''
 Not long ago, when Warren w. Bliss was doing carpenter repairs in his ar- tistic style, to the former McEwen house in the Center. he found an old
 large penny of IT'S vintage in the woodwork he was tearing away. Then
 
 was nothing doing. There were brain storms of perhaps he might get at some hidden treasure a chest of gold. a Ia Capt. Kidd, or the like. but no such find would have been real nice for MT Bliss. Wasn't election all in to be certainly, and as he had things to square and well he gave the penny to H. J. Lord owner of the above house. The latter, after a some what nuismatic search, learned that the coin was of Connecticut mintage in Colonial times, or just previous to the governments issue of the national penny. The coin was quite legible and held it's advanced age we'll.
 After all was over at last weeks election and ''the shades of night were falling fast, or pretty near it, the front piazza of Beach's depart- ment store on Main street, was the scene of a momentarily sad accident. It was this: An elector getting re- freshed after a day of "strenuosity'' overweighted himself with a feast Of cokes and ale, ginger of course, and sat heavily down on the ancient and honorable amen bench so long. pre- empted by the stove club. This sit- ung down cut up caused a fractured leg. A leg of the bench. After the excitement had been subdued and the pallor had passed from many faces, it was found that the break could be re- paired and this was done next day. the aforesaid sitting down comfort being tremendously placed 'in the seat for the winter right neighborly to the big stove and requisite cuspi- dor attachme ent
 Many Monroe folks of the Center and its envfrons, east north and south, are of the opinion that if- maybe this should be a big sif''-the building trolley line ever. gets to run ring, the most convenient place 10 drive to and get a ride, is to go to the so-calfed Point house on the turnpike. just beyond Hawley's cross- ing of the railroad. This is hardly any farther than by the way. of Step ney depot, or beyond, in fact, with its corners and turns of the road way and two or more hard hills, so 1t Is asserted, to the Point, it is near !y stralghtaway road, with but one heavy hill to encounter. In win ter this route is freer from snow and drifts than to Stepney, they say. Also, it is reasonably argued that someone will see, the patronage of the trolley, from people with teams, so large that a cOmmOdious barn will be built for stabling said con- veyances. Perhaps too, store and motor car garage will eventually come It is thought so.
 Great Peter! Sakes Alive; did you ever?" "Bosh!'' this and some more. said an upright, aged and feeble sighted voter at the polls at the late election. He had just been given the explanatory starter as to how to work in the monkey doodle bus iness on the "HosS tailers' ballot: as to just what style this must be folded and in the ring around a rosy" have the cris-cross and other pencil stunts. all right, to save his vote from being thrown into the dis card or cuspidor, then the aforesaid voter spoke some more piece, to the effect that they claimed the 1egisla- ture had made the ballot more sim pie, and the voter said it was worse IS known that a number of voters wanted to scratch worse than a hen, but went shy and voted a straight ticket for fear they would make wrong markings and lose all their vote. Il guess" said the old voter. in this ere Australian ballot, is to use an axe.''
 Now what do you think of this OCT true tale? The other day. as the Skid-doo limited-very much limited express on the peddling train trail beating it down the iron pike at a '23" mile per, beat, suddenly a drove of plump farm yard turkeys, did a hop, skip and jump or a marathon or aviation stunt, across the track "just feminist the front end of the engine. All put it over to the good but one bird; that one got hit and died of compound fracture of We'll, he was wedged in the pilot and stayed there until the train stopped and the engineer pick ed the turk off, taking his capture into the cab and feecing it so as to make him pre-Thanksgiving dim ner; all fixed in a conformity to the pure food law, 'and the train rolled on.''
 A Monroe resident put down ce- ment flooring in his dairy stables. A few days after, in looking to see if it had dried out, he made discov- cry. It seems, that when the ce- ment was wet and plastic two wan dering little chicks had become stuck in the soft material and died there. rolled in and imbedded. So he found them, a. cameo setting, in the rough and the bodies had to be out.
 Monroe has a few game hunters who have lived long enough to know what's what in this sport. "They keen on mixing up the laws'' said