The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
IN MONROE CENTER
HighbrOW and Humble Hits From
 the Hub of the Hills
Especial to THE FARMER, by Arthur W. French.)

Arthur W. French.)
 Monroe, June 12.-Monroe Center IS
 the hub. as its appellation implies, of
 the large old town, large, because its
 territorial dimensions are 4 miles by
 g.. Around this hub revolves the
 periphery of the several little lesser
 districts of the town. They are up- Stepney, Five Corners, Buffers Farms,
 Elm street, East Village. Stevenson,
 Monroe Station, Walkers Farms and a few more. The Center is a paradise
 for restful quiet. Every day is a Sunday in that respect. Nobody gets sick in the Center-only in those lesser districts. The Center is 800 feet hill, goes the eight roadways going out of it. No steam train racket or jars is heard. The only big noise is made by the two. or three motor cycles or a thunder shower. In fact to live in the Center makes one feel in it: "It is good to be alive.' No one dies there unless it be from advanced age or passing spring, several would-be buy CTS have been in town looking over residential and farm properties for sale. The foreign born element is at minimum in the Center and it's environs. Things are working along towards roadway and other improve ments in the Center which will further enhance and prove more attractive for making the hub of the town place for home making and a place of resi- dence for acceptable people.
 Miss Mabel l.. Hayes of Stepney, who has been the uncommonly efficient teacher of the Monroe Center school for the past five years, has ended her notable career there with the closing of the term last week. The word notable is used advisedly, because nev- CT was there an instructor under the little white schoolhouse roOftree, that carried so evenly with her social charms, her rare tact of governing, her affable ways and gracious manner ism, such a decided popularity with pupils, parents and all friends and ac- The little ones especial ly-to whom she was endeared-wfn miss her ever so much for she was akin to a foster mother to them, term after term. Now as it has before often happened to schoolteachers. they do say that Dan 5Cupid-O you Dan is the cause of 1t all.
 Years and years and some more years ago-perhaps before that-and steadily ever since, prominent abiders in Monroe center and envirOns contin- ually harped upon and voiced their private opinions publicly expressed to witt We want a good road from the Center to the Newtown turnpike, just over the Trumbull line.' Even the women folks and children" said amen. But the decades slipped by with nothing doing. It was ''The same old story over again''-with the year after year of what one might call make shift repairing of roadways. But life is too short to worry over it now. Forget it. Because-Well, some of the dead and gone, good old residents of Center and it's overspread, would almost turn over in their cas- kets, could they but know-and our live ones toss up their hats to learn that in the "very near" future-may- be by fall-under orders from the way will be inspected and James Me- Eroy, the division engineer, will be- gin work of survey for building-next year, or perhaps sOoner-the proposed state road from Monroe Center, south to the Trumbull line, that sounds to the good, don't it? Now there's story leading up. to all this. But earnest meeting was held at the town hall, to discuss and take quick ac- tion upon the great need of carrying out this state road project. It met with the unanimous approval of those present, they mostly being promin- 0nC TGSlOonLS dHQ taxpayers or the Center and environs. A committee of was there appointed to go to Hartford and have an explanatory interview with Commissioner Macdon- aid in regard to the state road. Said committee was a very representative one-no better could have been chosen. It consisted of First Selectman Geo. $. Hawley, Town Clerk Stiles M. Clarke and Hon. Fred. W. Wheeler. To Hartford they went last week, by mo- tor car and had a very pleasant inter- view with the commissioner, who al- lowed their position, saying he was aware of the needs of the proposed project and that the state road should be built and so forth. Now the town has on hand goodly sized fund for the payment of it's share of the contingent expense. That is nice, so hang it on the outer walls that all who run may read' There will be a state road from Mon roe center to the Trumbull line. Also, hats off to that committee, with thanks and to Commissioner Macdon- aid for his gracious acquiescence It is also pertinent to say that Mr. Mac donald was somewhat aware and more fully informed, that the proposed state road is on the route of the direct high way leading from the Newtown turn pike above Long Hill, through the ceutax. to Zaar bgid&e. the commis-