The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-14
MONROE

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| Especial to the Farmer, by Arthur W.
| French.)
| Monroe, Nov. 14.-H J. Lord has it
framed up to incubate 5000 chicks this
winter.
Be sure and attend the Congrega-
tionaI church harvest Sunday School
| concert on the %.
G. Wesley Beardsley, lately visiting
relatives here is now located in Cleve-
land, o.
from Fort Wright to pass Thanksgiv-
ing with his parents.
Thornton Brakeman now has two
| autos and is going into the dealing
| line, mebbe.
D. M. Burr would have caught that
woodchuck had it not crawIed into
a stone wall.
The three Misses Habersham will
| come home from their respective
schools to pass Thanksgiving.
Eddie Hurd has hopes of being able
to acquire an automobile next year.
The Monroe Whist Club which start
ed off so largely seems to be down
and out this season, "a1l in,' as it
were.
Squirrels and rabbits are plentiful
hereabouts say the hunters, this sea-
son, but it's lucky one that gets
much of a bag of birds in a day
Mrs. Mary Bennett contemplates a
sojourn in the south in the winter. At
present she is visiting with her sister
in Shelton, thence to Bridgeport
Last seasons Ice is getting scarce
with some of the milk dairymen and
there is much buying and borrowing
here and there.
Much interior re1tting has been go
ing this fall in the public schools
including new window shades and new
furniture.
There are some optimistic folks in
Monroe Center and east, who ex-
pect to live long enough to see the
heavy incline of Purdy's and NoIan's
hill cut down.
Stefan Guerrilla came to town and
struck a wood job. also a place to
board at the Lund home, then he got
SIS in pay and beat it out of town
forgetting to pay a board gill of So
The same thing happened at Mrs. Cy-
rus Jefries, where a state road work
er got next to his weeks pay and
didn't pony up for 81 eats and borrow
ed change.
The Center state road will lack
little Of being finished this fall,
through some quarrelling work can be
carried on in the winter season.
The approach or entrance stone steps
at the Center school ought to be re-
placed, Or some betterment made to
Tic premises as the 11IC is aICOg0th0T
too high for. children.
{ The driver Of an auto-aH mixed m
kind-got got here again from Bridge
port last week. He wanted to reach
the Center and 50 he did. But to do
It, he turned east at Hurd's Long
Hill store, went down across the track
and chugged all over Daniels Farms
and John L. Beards1eyville, en- route.
The south end poet hands in the
following quartrain:
tI'm bound to have turkey feed
On this Thanksgiving Day,
If cannot beg or buy it,
Ihen here goes for the natural way
Patsey German trapped a skunk. He
saw it and left it there over night.
The next morning it was gone Some
one had stolen it. Patsey found where
the pe1t had been sold for only a dol
lar that's all. The skin was fully
worth $3.50 per. So this is why Cor
man has had crouch for some time.
Morris French took a day off lately
and went hunting but came home emp
ty handed barring gun and game bag
saying there was nothing doing, or
to cunning where there was not even
a ground hog.
John N. Lester, the cement expert.
has just finished buiIding 20 foot
concrete stoop in front OF Marshall
Beach's store, the wooden one having
been removed. It is good job, re-
81.
Postmaster Eastwood has instituted
improvements now he is in charge of
the Stepney Depot office. A pleasing
change is the removal of the business
to the front of the Pen6eld store, with
convenient entrance.
Rector Habersham has had about
all the back yard of the rectory COW
cred with chicken pens and poultry
paraphernalia and is in for a. big up
bringing of chicks this winter.
Henry Renouf went to Bridgeport to
set of store teeth. It took him two
days and a lot Of restaurants and
lunch wagons to do it. He came home
all right and Immediately resigned
his position as barn man for BarshaIl
Beach, after a service of six years
Now folks are wondering if the teeth
caused it, or why.
The Civic club of the East Village
bailiwick is very much alive, despite |
that several summer residents have
departed for the winter season At |
a regular meeting held last week a
number of important matters, to be |
acted upon next summer, were freely |
discussed by local members.
Pretty soon, expert is to prac- |
tica1ly illustrate il Monroe, THE Use |
of Dynamite on the Farm" Showing |
best ways of rock blasting, tearing up |
tree stumps and rots and other forms |
of serviceabIe use of the explosive. |
The demonstration will begin before |
grange members and others interested. |
Hopes are had that some sort of ma |
terial and construction may be put |
down on the road west side of Center
park, fronting the Masonic Temple,
the Lord residence and town hall.