The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-04-10
MONROE MUSINGS
Tales Of the Town
Told TrenChantly
Especial to the Farmer)
By Arthur French.

| Especial to the Farmer)
| By Arthur French.
Monroe, April 1O-A Monroe matrOn,
with "A, new coop of adult hens, COM
planned to her husband last week, that
Easter was close at hand and there
was nothing doing in her eggery.
Don't you care" said hubby, I'll fix
'em out with, some of that "all lay
| ing egg food, and what did the mis-
creant do? He was. afraid to buy
eggs in town, so he brought home
two or three dozen from the city and
| hid them in the hay NOW. At night,
an invoice of these eggs he surrep-
titiously placed in the nests-an egg
per hen. But here's where he got in
wrong. He planted an even dozen.
| Of course that was, too much, at
| start, even if he had used egg food
(which he did not Well, the next day
madam came out to see if the laying
had started. Finding the first egg, a
| thrill of p1easure-several volts, or am
peres, or something = went through
her. But that's all, when she went
| the finale, round IL of the hen
fruit Here's where she got wise on
hubby's funny business and they do
| say-oh, never mind.
4 Such a time and more of it, has there
been in Monroe for the past two or
|
holy roads. No one seems to re-
member when there was anything like
| it, with a bookfull of variations OF
accidents vehicular, to say nothing
of accompanying incidents. Even on
| the state road, so nearly in town,
| motor cars have been mud maroOned
and put out of a going or getting re-
/ leased until oxen or draught horses
turned the trick and in all, owners
of the animals have had a land office
business and picked up quite stl-
pend for their jobs. Farm and milk
wagons, driving carriages and other
vehicles, have been broken. as we'll as
harness-while horses suffered lame
ness and other disabilities from over
strenuous work, in miry places. TEN
porary repairs have been made to
/ some of the worst places, but they are
to be lot Of work and The cost to
the town of a pretty penny to put our
4 highways-gullied and washed, the
i worst ever-back into a disable cond1-
| ton this spring.
i The Republicans have held their eau
Gus to elect convention delegates and
town committee On the latter As
Il SCISSOR Briggs of East Village, leads
for chairman. The Democratic cau-
Gus win probably be held next week,
/ possibly later. All this will serve to
keep the pot political at, a slight sim
ton in October and the following pres
idential hurrah, later. A rumor has
it, that Homer Sherman will be a can
!. didate for nomination as a legislative
representative, on the Republican
ticket, for Monroe There may be
others, but as yet, publicly, they are
in the dark horse class.
i A troublesome time had the Van
Cook family last week, who moved into
the Barrett place near the Center,
; from New York. A big motor car,
bringing their furniture was mired in
!, the mud down Long Hill way and the
goods-several days late, had to be
brought here in sections by teams.
. The family came first and had to lodge
with neighbors. They brought a horse
and in less than "a week the animal
!. suddenly died One of the family
also lost a pocketbOok containing a
goodly sum Of money.
One of our Monroe fishermen has
reformed this trouting season., or else
his conscience has awoke from Its
. sleep. It used to be that he would
: lcome home on trout opening day and
never more. To the establishment of
inquiring friends, to their almost I'M
belief and other things, our fisherman
; this opening day, he put 1T to all COM
ers: Boys, I didn't get blamed
DANCED one-and broke my pole" His
) name has been wiped off the Ananias
} page of the Stove club. o you others
J There's a man in Monroe that has g
crouch. He acquired it "April Fool
day. It has ever been his boast, thai
. he was too wise and too alert ever
to get fooled. Well, on the morning
: on the job as usual HIS employer
was at the stove frying pancakes and
saying: "Wife has a bad headache
and won't get up yet. Guess. we car
make out" When the cakes were serv-
ed the never-fOoled. man fiercely at
t tackled one with dull table knife and
) you can imagine that cake was built
around by cotton batting. Hence the
: crouch. Because of the ha has and
, shouts of April fool this time.
Harmony Grange, Patrons of Hus-
bandry, is growing some. Applica-
r tions for membership for the past few
weeks have been accepted and the
) candidates punched. so to speak, viii
form class of dozen Or more, who
are to be initiated Thursday evening
81 of this week. y
H. J. Lord will have an ornamental
wire fence put in front of his resi-
, dence this spring. The wooden fence
on the north, around the town hall, is
, also to be replaced with wire. A SIM
liar fence is also to be erected in front
of the former McEwen place, now Mr.
Lords property. All told, 1T will
, make a great improvement.
Samuel Smith and family of An
sonia, will return here for the sum-
mer, about May /. Pending the com
pletion of the extensive alterations
being made to. the house "Fairview'
4 they are to occupy the former Whit
lock place this summer, the house
having been fully repaired and paint
ed.
Royal B. Curtis lives over near Step
. ney Depot. He owns a motor car
He SKINNED over the mud in it, al
right, to the Masonic meeting. This
made him brave enough to essay an
other skim, with Jerome Osborne, to
the Republican caucus. But alack
They were held up-by mud hole
and there they were. So was the car.
Stuck fast. Nothing doing in the &c
line. "Romy", being a telegrapher,
licked off 80 Gall in) on the wind shield
and said: Here's where we switch off
and walk And they did. A pair
OF horses and a lantern extricated the
sunken "feel' and that's all. But
this one of many.
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