The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-05
Monroe News Items of Much Interest To ''Farmer'' Readers
By Arthur ". French.J


 Monroe, July 5Fourth of July. week end and over Sunday homecomers. house party guests and visitors fa than ever before. Saturday afternoon to meet one train, there were nearly 40 teams at Stepney.
 The Monroe baseball nine played it's initial game last Saturday and put it over the White Hills team in their natty suits, by tho score of IT to 15. The Monroe's got chaffed for wearing their milk wagon, hay field clothes. but their battery, Crowley and Black l man were on the job all the same A member of the Stove club, which has a number of "gunners' on it's ron has discovered that there Is a bill, in committee, before the Legislature. which provides that no person shall carry a gun in the open or out Of doors without a written permit from the selectmen. This is like a revoIy- CT permit in the city. The bill origin ally, as it was aimed at a certain class of careless pot hunters-fxed g per permit but 1t has been amended and may not pass. Henry Nenouf, ffs- torian of the club, who can shoot some, has kick coming, sizing ft up this way. "A man can't buy a gun and carry it home along the street, Bah! a permit to use a gun to shoot crows and woodchucks and old dogs and old horses and catst Outt l guess we'll next have to take a 1f- cense to go fishing or in swimming. maybe?
 The Brooks place, over east, near Pine swamp was sold again last week, this time to New York people. The changing of. ownership or occupancy of this property, in the past decade. has become akin to what they call a continuous performance. Robert g. Butr and family, leasing the place by the month, only moved in there in June and now the property has been sold over their heads and they are notified to vacate by the 1eta. It is also alleged that there is a mix up as to deeds of the property and mort gages. MT. Burt has been told that he would be paid for his planting ez- pense and for getting in the hay if he cared, but he must not claim the latter.
 rive in Monroe from the city, adding to the scenery of the town and the vivacity of the atmosphere. Last week from the vicinity of Monroe station was a wild runaway of a pair of livery horses attached to a. buggy, owned by Irving Coan of Derby. Any how, the remains of the vehicle were scattered through Hammertown and Turkey Roost. A summer girl did it. it is alleged, she was a dear young thing, wearing bushel and one peck Dat, compressed frock and soms more. AS she left a. train and saun~ tering blithesomely and care-free she personally conducted a young man with rahl rahl clothes and peek-a-boo hose down the pike. Hence the run away, maybe.
 It is only about a bakers dozen. weeks to the holding of the October town election caucuses. It is already in the air that the aforesaid meet ings will be attended by more than a quorum. Welll The man on the noar barrel lid and his contemporary hold ing, down the soap box, go so far ss to nudge up and say, "Somethfng do- ing, son; there'll be big something and talking about hay; got much cut?"
 Over in Stepney they are still hold ing ears to the ground and listening to the new building trolley line work ing their way. The wit of the Stors club in that burg, jocosely remarks to wit: They'd get along faster, if they didn't build So much crisscToss of the street; one side and then ths that it be nicknamed the Grapevine line or the Zig Zag trolley"
 H. J. Lord is using up his sumner siestas, by swinging in a hammock and looking over railroad and steam- ship folders; also pictorial Hterature
 
 So he has planned to go to Florida with his family and live in a leased cottage there, where they don't need any steam heat, cellar furnace and other things that depend on the coal barons supply and other bothers Of freeze" month.
 Country housewives here, who are enabled to employ kitchen maids or other indoor help, frequently find they are living ''In the house of so much trouble" It is hard to keep this help bred. as they chafe under the dullness of rural life. Especially the total ss lack of evening entertainment or anywhere to go, in their day off un- less it is to hurry to town and back One matron, after some trials, says she has paraphrased the old song as follows: My Maids gone to the City, ~ o Deari O Dear. She's skipped right back and made her track, from this quiet atmosphere"
 The town school committee are ar-st ranging matters looking to the open ing of the fall term of schools. Dur ing the summer, needed repairs will be made to the Center, Elm street and Walkers Farms school houses. Any increase of attending pupils, will bs offset by the withdrawal of several this year, who are going to High school. Teachers appointed for next term are as follows: Center, Mabel L. Hayes; Birdsey, Vera Hubbeli: Cut CTS Farms Elizabeth Shelton; Elm street, Edith Wales; Eastern, Bertha Sutherland. The schools will reopen Sept 5.
 There seems no end to the fashion