The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-20
IFRENCHY's NEWS LETTER
Musings From Monroe By Our
 Occasional Correspondent.
Especial to the Farmer.) By Arthur w. French.

rushing into the village store-aI out 1 of breath, and some more, but crying out, Give me, oh! I Wanta a gick of stewing chum; chick of dooing stun, mercy! gumgumgum. Quick! l The wash boiler is leaking all over the stove and the water? Sure. Oh! It's fierce" Then she grabbed the gum i stick and thrust all of it in her mouth, while Clerk Shelton yelled: q say! Don't forget to chew it soft before you get there.''
 A Monroe man has had his chicken l conservatory burglariously entered so muchly that he is getting tired. A watch out, several times, locking the door and other things have been no good He avers-after a late loss that he was going to tie a fish line to his big toe; run it out of the win dow, into the coop and annex it to the lower limb of his fattest female bird-Just to know the time she would be gonest. He heard noise in his coop once and went out and ear-rub- bered; but 1t proved to be only the chickens talking in their sleep. He says this reminds him of the story of man who also heard noise in his coop and going to the door cried out: Who's in there? and the an- swer was: Nobody, sah! Nobody but me an de chickuns.'"
 That rhymester, of the south end, 1 He just recovered from 'fappende- 1 cutis,'' or something as good! When ther frost is on ther punkin an the corn is in ther shock; then it's me mosquito netting frock, that met at | Savin Rock, when we shooted the shu- l ter-chock-a -block.''
 
 'tEverybody's doing 1t! Doing what?' Nearly so, anyways. Well, Monroe | folks are building or preparing for | some silos. Half dozen or more | have been put up this season and oth- l CTS are being arranged for. Nothing l like siIo, to help along the feed proposition in winter,'' so say the milk | farmers and they ought to know. Kel- lar Briggs has new one, on the | rising ground of Barn hiIl-beg par don, should say, East ViIlage-and mebbe there isn't some view from the top of it.
 What's the matter with Clarence B. Burr? Oh, he's all right!'' No chestnut c. B. B. has been some unanimously nominated and placed on both party tickets, to ensure his cleo tion as a member of the school bound. As he is walking alfabi1ity, capabiI- ity, availability, 1t looks as if he would "come across Oct. six times.
 Another party of humans who have tongues in their heads aud can talk United States, but don't know much in the inquiry line stopped their mo- tor car at the foot of F'rench's hill. in the Center, Saturday. and asked, What town is this? We want to go to Derby They came from Hunting-1 ton in an electric car, which baked on the hills Getting twisted, the par ty got here by coming over Walnut Tree Hill, instead of hitting the Shell ton pike. And still there are others
 
 know about accommodating them selves to circumstances, one could write on a parcel post stamp or like wise. This is true to chickens; eS- pecialIy grown ups, and mothering. Wilbur F: Selleck missed a hen last month. He put her down on the lost. strayed or stolen list then forgot 1t. Lately he made a discovery, finding the aforesaid bird ensconsed in the rough part of stone wall, right on the job of "hencubating'' some chicks and she did-six of them as lusty as you please, all unaware that moth CT could just as we'll have had a nice straw lined box, as not, but she was so very contrary and the stone wall appealed.
 The Center Stove club. after stren- uous discussion all summer as to when the state road would be finished, have at last decided, by a plurality or near ly so, that: ''It will be done-when it is done" which is going some, as to the right guess.
 It is some place for raising animated stock at the Smith farm, in the north end. Some years ago bronze turkeys had the go and this was followed by the uplifting of Angora sheep. Next came the Shetland or small pony fad and collie dogs. On the side now, Miss Smith is attending to the upbringing1 of a kennel stock of Ayredale puppies for the market
 There has been so much dam talki lately on the premises of a Monroe resident-and he a high official in a church, too-that folks not posted, were saying things. 'tBut why wor- ry?' A dam was being built on his property, was to create a pond and m ake ice to fill his icehouse and cool off the market milk and-that's all about it, dam and all.
 all the way from little old New York, is a great vocal initator. He can start a dog fight or a cat-astrophe, with his voice any time, on the street break up a porch party with his bow VOWS and meows. But his irnita- ton of an auto honk is certainly all there. He can get in front of a house and honk everybody to the door or window, to see what number is going by or what's the matter, which is to laugh.
 Of course you know that cows as a rule, do not often run amuck and be naughty. But one did Monday at the Wilson place forinst John l.. Beardsley's. What it was all about deponent sayeth not, but it was. Any way, one Mrs. Moody attacked-horns de combat-her companion, a Mrs. Moody too and gored and tore the milk bag and abdomen badly. Veter- mary D. M. Burr came hot footed horse-to the scene and had to use