The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-11
MONROE
By Arthur W. French.)

Miss Edith Curtiss, Miss Edna Van 1 Cook, Miss Carolyn Clark, Miss Eve l line Jacot, Miss Mary Zimmerman, H. J. Lord, Albert Wheeler, Stanton TIa-
 bersham, Charles Billet, Morris French, Thornton Blakeman, Wilbur Ddllist1n,
 Ray Lucas, William Erickson, c. A. l Davis Maybe the club will try vau-
 devifle in their repertoire.
 The Civic club may take some action
 in trying to secure the state road type
 roadway over Bagburn hill and I through, between East Village and.
 Stevenson depot. [ As it is, vehicles
 find the going over this route pretty
 bad, most of the year.
 Mayor Frank J. Rice of New Eia-
 ven has acquired his first automobile
 and Is now using 1t at his summer country seat in East Village.
 Work on the proposed state road.
 from the Centre to Trumbull, will be started ere long, unless all prepara- 1 tions fail and it is not likely. Gravel construction, the same as the good
 road is favored. Tons of this mater l 1a1 can be had with but a short haul. age to the alignment. With gravel, 1 the same under i'll as for macadam, is used. This type is the more easily
 repaired and costs less in construction 1 And for several other reasons is pre- ferable Tn a few days it will be. l known whether the entire road or a | half section will De DO1ltE sLA1S Se7ebsOAl.
 Work will probably be commenced at the south end, if only 8 section is to be built. Anyhow, the matter will be
 decided next week and possibly a town meeting may have to be called to set tie things. r 1 The upIifht in, the price of the daily.
 newspapers don't worry an .secononli- -55 cal, man down Long Hill way little 1 bit, for he formed 8, combine With l two. next door neighbors to make one EKa. ae
 the paper mornings, another. after l noons and what is left, in the even I ing. This week the school committee will
 be in session to receive andA act upon applications as teachers of the schools for next term There will probably be. several changes made in appointments The schools will close this week for the long summer vacation, to last ur-' | til september 2.
 Telephone girls in other towns would just like to have some red pepper or an electrical shock or something wired into the receiver of a certain Monroe
 telephone, because a very .vealys young man, mostly starts off his call with Hello is that you central, dear? Yes. you're looking well this even
 ing T. now. often, he gets this back.
 1T should worry-wire's busy.
 MISS Or.verta Curtfss wins the covet- ed certideatet at the Centric school for
 perfect attendance during the entire year Miss Lucy Lord was close second, she having missed. but one
 day.
 everything goes fin the country. z
 Tn the nowadays especially. The other day in asVelI- to-do farmers dooryard, not far from Bridgeport, was seen at
 rest a hay wagon, an OK cart. mov7s l ing machine, a motorcycle and large automobile. all owned there. even to
 the rooster perched on the hood of the car .toock-a-doodling. should worry 's n-verf1y our farmers are coming across and arriving some. Charles T. Sherwood has purchased the feed and grain business lately car ried on by A. S. Edwards at Stevenson depot, and eventually will enlarge IT, There is no probability of hearing the c1ang of trolley car bells in Step ney this year, as Long HdII will re- main the dead-end for some time yet Hopes are entertained, however, or progress next year. The running or the cars many find convenient to pass an evening in Bridgeport, attending the theatres and other anusenents The natronage' of the line will greatly increase summer nights.
 On the eve of vacation and summer outing days, this is the anticipa ton song some are singing: By the fair Housatonie waters with their soft
 meIodious flow, merry sons and merry daughters, in tent and shack and bun galow.'s Where the river belts Mon roe.
 Rev. H S. Habersham has about D. 900 spring fncubated chicks and he seems to have discovered 8 way to pEenomenalIy upgrow them, judging from their present robust size. Several quarts of skinned milk are served to them daily and it is. believed this is the cause of their rushing along so fast to the broiler and grownup stage. Here's a hi11t.F
 The annual meet for this section of the western Connecticut Trapshoot- CTS, association, is being prepared for. to take place about the middle of Au- gust on the grounds of the EIi1lside1 Gun club here. It is intended to make this a record and notable event in the associatfon's meets.
 Mir and Mrs. Robert A. Lewis win visit here this summer at the home of his grandfather, Wells Lewis. Mir Lewis was married on the 4th to Miss Frances G. Ely, sister Of Mrs. George Hawley, Jr., at the Washington Ter of the groom, was the best man.
 Rumor goes around of the buying and selling of tuberculosis cattle and bob veal largely by Hebrews who SCOUT the country for nearly everything purchasab1e from a chicken up to veal in the cities.
 Monroe's slogan is now and will be this: Drive your team to Long Hill and take the trolley to Bridgeport As someone says: tsNo more bother about often be1ated or irregular trains on the Brtdgeport-Botsford shuttle 1 branch of the Berkshire division. If one misses 3 trolley car. why worry there'1 be another in an hour and night and day, Sundays and holidays, ! the trolley will be on the job.
 Mrs. Harry c. Morgan. the ever-so- 1 popular teacher-in and out-of the | Center school. will this Thursday, ten der her pupils the usual closing day picnic. to be held at the Center park and the children are full of anticipa- 1 ton for the event, which will have a shower of cakes, cream and other l goodies.