The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-11
OBSERVATIONS BY "FRENCHY"
Especial to the Farmer) CBy Arthur w. French.)
Monroe, Dec.


 Monroe, Dec. II.
 The spirit of deviltry seems to have. '.hugged'' three youths of late teen ages, who live in White Hills one night, not long ago. Their cut-ups were shameful, to say the least and de- serving of a stiff jail sentence surely. Their program consisted of noisy and notwithstanding tour over into Monroe. yelling insulting words to oc- cuDied houses and throwing any KID q of q missile at buildings Isaac Hup- hell had to scare them away, by firing his revolver and aged Ezra MeelzeT llazed the air with a shotgun kellar Briggs +.sickedr a dog on to them and the Clarke home did the same. The roysterefs went as, far north in East Village as the Daniel Wells place. Al ter much, disturbance here they went back to White Hills and the most des- picabIe job of all followed They gained entrance to the church and did scme damage. also spreading f1itn over the large bible on the pastor desk-a shameful act. The youths are well known. .,.
 In Monroe Center and it's env1rons, there is to be born one of these -yea1:s,- if not sooner, something. akin 10 civic club or society This club will have the slogan-it's already framed up-"Better Repairs to - Our High NIays.s'- @Wait--a~ minute, Why Worry-!s Theresis no reflection on those who. care for t1e-repair' of our roads, IL is just.tTais,~ the town must appropriate more money annually for road work See the workers. They are at a deep rut or depression in the roadWAX-, From the gutter they. .scrape out Snlire, muck, weeds. leaves, twigs. Abogs ana any old thing to- fill up the depression ar hollow. A heavy rain or rains, washes the mud fill all, away and~ there VOL are There ought to be rnoney enough to cart and make a gravel ill at every bad spot See the ,.Wofl1- CTS batting down a bog or a piece of turf over any sprotruding rock or stone in roadway There oughtsSo be money to pay for blasting every. kind of stone, especially in the wheel tracks, and also money enough 10 erase the hollows, on each side or the thank you ma'am's'' and cross cuIverts, they are fierce for Jolt1nS any occupant of any vehicle. Hurry up that civic c1ubi
 Chickens are chickens in Monroe, nowadays, especially with eggs at a balloon price and broilerS $1 per ana some more. A number have over 100 birds regularly in their pens. Incu- bators make it possible to have lay ing hens any old time of the year, and make the egg output some when the prices are way up. Such poultry pro motors as Zimmerman, Habershar1, Lord and a few others, are now mar-a ISeting hen fruit to the value of not less than $50 week and many dol lars worth of live birds for eating. Several Hebrews SCOUT this and other towns for cooking fowls, that race finding poultry far preferable to beef or seafood. In fact, other for etEners do the same and chickens have tlie call, greatly. Speaking about eggs, it is now the rage with local house wives to cook or bake many things without the customary use of eggs and they are meeting with the greatest success One matron, who sells eggs, discovered how to make a ThanksgiV-. ing pudding, cutting out 30 cents worth of eggs. Hubby thinks she is great
 --s Henry J. Lord, the largest and 1ead- ing poultry promoter and fowl fancier in Monroe, who has had a dozen years of experience, will have a most attrac- tive exhibit at the poultry show in Bridgeport next week. He will make a. fine showing of several fowl foods he handles, as well as breeders, incu-' bators and the Standard heater, also other poultry paraphernalia under his agency. The Lord pens and hen cot tages are unequalled in town. for their make and the many useful accessor- ies in poultry bringing up. He ex- poets that his incubators will turn out about 2,OOO chicks this winter, if he has framed it up right. MT. Lord has a system which he carries out very successfully in the propagation of his poultry, favoring mostly the up- bringing of the Rock species, white and barred. This week MT. Lord is having built a large portable enclosed booth or pagoda, in which to display his large exhibit artistically at the poultry show, not only in this city, bat in New York and elsewhere.
 Socially, neighborly and otherwise, the removal of the Clarke family from the Center to a residence at Stepney depot is a sort of local bereavement. They were all born and bred in and adjacent to the locality and their pass ing as residents, is like as if some very familiar landmark had been re- moved Regrets are numerous for their going, while best wishes follow departure
 Now that the action of last Satur- days town meeting makes it possible for completing the Center state road, a distance of 2,0OO feet, to the finish ing point at the Center, this month, folks are given to rejoicing. The work ! was in danger of being held up by the lack of appropriated funds, but the aforesaid meeting has arranged ev- erything satisfactorily. This con- struction work will terminate adjacent to the Masonic temple grounds. A months work in favorable weather will see progressive labor at an end
 Harmony grange hopes to do itself proud next Monday evening by the members enacting the amusing play: Turn of the Tide at the Town TIaII the cast numbers 12 and is composed of the most capable amateurs of the grange The hall should be crowded Monday evening to standing room only.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles B. Nichols will be located in the Center this week. oc-