The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-08
MONROE
Especial to the Farmer) (By Arthur ". French }

and half their hay,'' as the old saw goes, were in luck, if they were.c .coun- try Hvers. Such a winter, it seems there never was to burn up wood and 1t seemed just to melt away in the zero l weather. o you wood box, as for hay, 1t went fast and quite a number have run out and are buying. The consumption of animal fed grain has
 been large. Even the s1los have felt 1t. John Hawkins, last week at g, meet ing of the Civic club, enter tained a large gathering of members with his war stories and "reminiscences includ- ing a sketch of his incarceration in Libby prison. Also he told of his ex-
 periences at the Gettysburg reunion. last year, at which John declares he
 had the time of his life seeing the sights and being kept busy renewing old acQuaintances. All eyes are turning towards the former Monroe-Trumbul1-H ngton
 union fair grounds and all roads twill | lead there this fall. if the enterprise Of Bridgeport and sportsmen of else where, as promised, are successful in holding a real country fair there in September. For weeks, work goes on repairing the old and erecting new, buildings and making many improve mentS on race track and. grounds Aside from the usual exhibits of farm products, horse racing and the like several new features are to be pre- sented, including, maybe, a flying
 machine. Motor busses may be run from Long Hill station and the trolley The chicken incubator and brood | CT are abroad in the land; also in Monroe. The staid old hen, in many cases, is consigned to the broody pen and nests have gone into the discard, while the machine is on the job
 night and day and chicks are pour l ing out into the world by the hum
 dreds. The Lord foundry" has cost
 $2.500. Habersham's $1,e0o, and Zina-
 merman. $1.2o0, while there are oth-
 CTS.
 Peter Reitter, believing that the Good Old' will come again, is hay ing his residence nicely repainted. ! There was a, report that went around r to the efect-that Peter was to lease
 the unoccupied Stepney schoolhouse | and open a public market there, when | the high cost of living would get a big setback, in fact would get 1t in 1.-the neck. and "Petey'' will be right on
 the job, sure, that is, if this isn't an April fool joke.
 E John Henrietta says that things
 are all balled up, as to weather prog tnostigations. The groundhog did his :. little stunt towards sforewarning l late spring and it looked so during | March Also the peppers have not l yet started in towards their getting
 ''froze in three tirnes.'' On the other 1 side, the pussy willows have blown earlier than usual, the garden seed
 illustrations are all in,. folks are dig | gfng horse radish and some farmers
 are inventorying the field tools, and re- | port comes from Stepneys that some | one has thaweds out a place in his
 garden and had the audacity to plant 1 green peas | P. S.-Take it all back. this week
 there has been thick ice and snow. Now that the governor has read | the riot act a aQ4inSf state road roon1 ey appropriations, guess the bottom 1 will fall out of getting any more inn proved highways, right away. Mon
 roe wanted very much that proposed
 state road from Shelton over White l Hills, to the eastern town line. If it got there, possibly Monroe would | find the way to have built less than
 two miles, to bring said state road
 direct into the center, as it is greatly needed.
 Monroe has precocious youngsters l who get off some smart quips. One 1 said to his mother, as she was wash l ing his face: Gee! but this is get | ting to be a nuisance" Another aged | 6, just to school, said: of ever gets 1 married, Ise goin' to marry teacher
 It was girl of 5 who said to grand | ma, With your permission, I'll get a
 cookie out of the box Another
 70 Lord, why worry, pray you to 1 bless etc Iassie of 4 asked ma That's the time got stung,' said a 1 year old to his sire, ''I found noth- ing but peanut shells in the bag All the grangers who attended the
 late mock trial held by Harmony l Grange, are still laughing over its
 funnyisms. It was breach of promise suit brought by Miss Dill l Pickles against a. prominent resident of Monroe, namely Arthur Corlfss, our walking smile. 70, wasn't it a l | the allegations but '.scorned the alli-
 gator" But the evidence was con elusive that defendant was at Polrs every time the girl with the green
 hair did her stunt and he fell to it.
 As George Ade puts it, "She 1amped
 him and he felt himself waited away
 on a cloud of green perfumery." when | she sat in the next seat to him. But phewt ask any granger about ft-any | that has got over his laugh. Judge" Clarence B. Burr was on the bench | and justice could be read in his face 1 as he found the defendant guilty and | Miss Pickles almost swooned- Any | grS>ger can tell you, if he will, how
 much the cost was to MT. Curtis But as he goes about as smiling as ever, 1t I evidently hasn't broke him. It was
 said he would take an appeal, though
 no signs of it have appeared.
 We'll, Monroe man has discovered
 something new under the sun. It is this. He owns an auto. He says | if he gets caught in hole, with a. de- hated tire and his wind jammer'' IS
 out of commission, he just pours oats
 into said tire. which, by adding wa
 ter, causes the oats to swell and the tire to follow suit, just as if 1t had
 been pumped full of oxygen. or any | old air.
 They do say that man over in | Stepney, this week dynamited or
 thawed his garden patch soft enough
 to plant some peas. As the tfnermom-
 eter has been down to 20 this week
 and the ground froze stiff, the peas
 are apt to fancy they have been put | away in cold storage '7