The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-23
SOUTH
BRITAIN
BRIEFS
BY BILL GARRrGUs


That skunk in Vreem,s hen coop
caused another hlackout at the old
Methodist parsonage and In the
entire area around the old cream
cry. Mr.. Vreem, son-in-law, Of
Representative Sid Plat, called for
help and the neighbors responded.
The animal was finally pulverized.
carried out into the road, and q lady
IN the neighnorhood called for Trap.
per Nate Evarts. Nate took the
creature home but the odcr re-
mains. Dogs pass by on the other
side Of the street and pedestrians
hold their noses.
There's . nostalgia about
skuhks, u lingering memory Of
days when almost every lad owned
. good skunk dog, and when old
folks tried out the fat Of the
creatures to relieve colds. There
was a time when skunk oil
brought high prices at Lakes
Drugstore, In waterbury, and
when people were not ashamed 70
anoint themselves literally with
the penetrating oil that was stout
enough to cure o case OF silica
dust consumption. Before tue
days Of chest greases In fancy
jars, many lives were saved With
skunk oil, taken internally and
rubbed on beneath layers Of HON
est red flannel.
Postmaster Condor and Deacon
Beardsley spent most Of the day
Sunday renodeling the Post Office
and installing several new lock box
es TO take care Of the increased
business from Pierce Hollow. Gov
eminent and state officials demand
prompt service. Patent medicine
advertising and mail order catalogs
can wait but the urgent business Of
State and nation must walt for no
man. The improved facilities will
make for more satisfactory service
all around.
Rumor has II that q LEGAL young
man, endorsed by our Represent
tatlve, anticipates an early APP
pointment as Boss Chicken Far
mer at the new home for mental
detectives. Competition from out
side may develop.
Benjamin Warner, a resident OF
the new trailer colony at Elliott
Bradley's Place, has gone TO Mas
sachusetts and will not return until
after the First Thanksgiving on
November 23rd. Hugh Warner Is In
Maine, where his firm Is installing
sewage plant.
Ecc forms on the Hawkins Pond
thsse mornings and old residents
recall the One-time famous skat-
Ing Of the Reverend Forte. The
Reverend came to the village
about 1904 or 1905, set the fashion
for all hands, made several usual
~ steady female hearts flutter.
cut some fancy figures and de-
psrted on urgent business 10 the
Nerth. Nobody seems to recall
exactly why he left 50 hurriedly
but almost everyone remembers
his fancy skating.
George Mclaughlin motored to
WATERFOWL on Monday.
Excavation for pipe lines at the
new training school has again
crossed the Pierce Hollow Road,
made q detour necessary, and de-
lays traffic. A highway within
the reservation has been graded
around the end Of Horse Hill, not
far from that never-failing spring
in Walt Mitchelrs old pasture lot.
The road TO the James Cassidy
farm has been newly graded by
the State and work on the sewer
beds progresses apace. More dirt
has been moved In the valley
within the past few months than
was pushed around by the prehis-
toric Ice sheet that secured off
the hills and left scratches ON the
outcropplng rocks.
Local residents are wondering
whether or not the State plans to
sidetrack U. 8. through this val
ley. The new bridge is too wide for
any anticipated traffic on an Or
binary State road, surveyors and
traffic survey men have haunted
the village OF late, and 1t would be
no surprise If the trunk highway
by-passed Southbury and put this
parish OH the map.