The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-15

keep everything in the poultry lint e, 1 chained down, to prevent stealing. Look how Henry Sherman had a big lot of eggs, all crated up for market,
 and ''swiped the whole business" Chicken stealing is reported every few [ days, somewhere and it is getting to be 'eggsasperating'' to losers.
 Jerome Osborne has come back as Estation agent at Stepney depot. All
 and many more, are ever so glad to
 see 'Romey'' holding down the job
 again. He was born on Accommoda- | ton street and lives there still. And
 that's going some; around a country
 depot. He tried work up at Botsford
 station, some months, but it didn't ap- Ipea1 to him.
 | Perhaps the Monroe center and en-
 vfrons milk carry men will be happy l this winter. Why not? They will
 have state road wheeling, excepting
 a mile, all the way to Long Hill. Oh,
 you last winters mud!
 After the Center state road is built,
 how long will it be before the town
 of Trurnbul1 likewise gets to work
 and has a similar road constructed l over the one mile or more of remain
 ing fierce highway between the
 Monroe end and the state trunk road 1 at the so-calIed Point house? That's
 the guess. But why worry! The milk
 carriers, teamsters and others, trek ing Long Hill way, will, this winter
 pared with the past-for at least four
 miles there and four miles back, of
 their jobs.
 | Some Monroe clergymen spend their l spare time and their spare change to l buy feed for the upbringtng of pou1- l try. Rev. H. s. Ha1ersham, however, has gone into the business with mag nitude. His GOODS and pens have been l increased until now they cover nearly 1 all the garden and back yard. He brought up nearly 2,00e birds this sum | mer and expects to go in largely from l incubator stock this winter, all his
 pens being supplied with up-to-date heaters.
 Along came through Monroe last week, another of those lost, strayed
 or stolen (mentally) who, under a tenn porary abberation, was driving his | motor car going it blind, so to speak. Anyway, he had the nose of the craft headed towards Bridgeport, when he | asked a passer-by: How far is 1t to Danbury''? :? And said passer-by sprung an old joke with his answer, like this: About 25, 900 miles if you keep on the way you are going Turn the ma chine clean around and guess 20 miles | to get you there, all right We should wonder how many folks live on Stupid street.
 
 What a wear and tear there were
 upon lead pencils at the late town election. Fully one-half the voters, after they had got a ballot, dashed | into the marking booths with a facial 1 look just as if they would say: 'Oh, let me at him''-and they did. At i least a dozen or more ballots were no good in the counting: miss-marked | and covered with hieroglyphics, one
 man especially, had things all balled
 up beautifully, and Ferguson again rose to remark: '@Tel1 with this 'Hoss- tailian' ballot anyhow
 teThe school houses need repainting," said a member of the school committee
 at the town meeting. Yes they do some of them-at least. The Center
 school building is in pretty good condition and would be worth copying after. When paint is used, then 1 there ought to be something nice look
 ing. Just for instance, Ecut out the
 Buffers Farms school color. It looks
 as if it had been thrown at with egg yolks and splashed with ancient cho-
 colate. There are others.
 It was ''oigars. have one''2 for Town 1 Clerk Stiles M. Clarke after the late
 election. He is a Democrat, sure. And wasn't he reelected for the tHsteenth'' 1 time and he up against a Republican
 majority proposition? And evidently
 ''Stiley'' has something of civil ser
 vice knock up his sleeve or all over
 him, Mebbe,-So he got there just the
 same.
 Hope deferred maketth the heart
 sick" runs the old saying. Still, there are those-about harvest. yield who think that the time may come
 when a bounty should be paid on
 woodchucks. If not, why not? 1 When a brakeman on the Bridgeport
 Botsford go-as-you-please trains wants l to get in funny with the girls at Pep
 per street crossing flag station, he
 says, Pepper street; change cars for
 Sneezevil1e.'' A pert miss once retort-
 ed to a brakeman: "Where do you get 1 off? I suppose 1t is at Salttown, be-
 cause you are so fresh.' Brakey re- l covered enough to say the train ought | to run to Sugar street, Sandy Hook, for her. but she wouldn't have it. Thomas Osborne and son Walter of
 Webb district, are honey hunters for sure Lately they found in a, hemlock
 tree, 120 pounds of the sweetness. Pre-
 vious to that, they had had two finds, l one yielding 70 pounds and the other something over 60 They have, it 1 would seem, no use of keeping an apiary, for when they want any honey,
 they simply take to the woods and find
 some with no cost whatever, barring | their labor.
 | A nodish late summer girl GSepten-
 ber) arrived from great big old New
 York and sojourned for two weeks, down Five corners way, or thereabouts.
 When all dolled up, it was for her,
 slit skirt frock, yellow hosiery, maroon,
 taffeta-guess so-1ingerie and-There,
 There! Don't talk so much-before it
 was all over. The south end poet,
 from his point of view, dashed off a
 quatrain as follows: She wore a
 very much skirt, slit And all the
 fellows were on to it.'' They rubber ed so long, the truth I will state, that