The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-21
SOUTH
BRITAIN
BRIEFS
BY BrLL GARRI0Us


BY BILL GARR10Us
Speclalistsl We could use more
Of them, II we could get them.
The EvartS family In South Bril-
tain produced specialists, and we
Stiil have three Of them with Us.
Charley Evarts Is q dairy special-
ist. He can get more milk out OF
q COW with less effort than . dozen
college-trained farmers. Charley
broke his leg, about q year ago,
but he got q pitchtork for Q
orutch, hOobled into the house and
got strainhtened out almost as
good as new. Charley always keeps
q light In the window, come eve
ming. Joe EvartS has so many
specialties, It's hard to pick out
special one, but perhaps his
axe handles are the best. Joe
can whittle out an axe helve that
will stand up under terrific pun
ishment, and his handles are truly
artistic. Joe has q couple this
year with cats eyes In them, queer
little dark knurls In the wood that
look like a tomcat's blinkers after
dark. Nate Evarts Is o trapping
expert and good one. Sometimes
we think Nate knows more than
o fox or q mink. He has sep
arated many foxes and minks
from their pelts and his exploits
with rod and gun are the talk of
the county. It's natural that those
Evarts boys should be specialists
because their father was spe-
cialist, In peach culture. The
Evarts farm raised the biggest and
best peaches ever grown on
Squaw Rock.
The Honorable Harold Hicock
has Eve cases on the docket for
action before the town court
prior 70 the turn Of the year.
Harold hopes to spend n quiet
Christmas ut home with . good
roast turkey and . bowl Of egg
nog.
You never known your luck.
When O young man from Squaw
Rock spent too many hours and
too much cash In that tavern
where they once claimed to have
buried John Barleycorn, his luck
guided him on O zig2ag journey
upstreet and into the tolls OF the
law. Rumor has II that o wrest.
ling match In o Main street
garage proved this cub the match
for o state trooper, but his luck
held, charges were dropped, and
all's quiet up on Squaw Rock.
Just down the road, In house
that would make nm antiquar-
ian reach for his checkbook,
lives Myron Pierce. Myron Is q
tack maker, one Of q vanishing
race. He can take . coil Of wire,
stick one end Of II into . ma
chine, and turn out q barrel Of
tacks before o Republican can
explain how 10 balance q budget.
MIR. Pierce works for The Haw.
kins Company, talks but little,
seldom produces any scrap, and
should be rated among the great
mechanics Of Connecticut. When
better tacks are made, it's . safe
bet Myron Pierce viii find out
how 10 make them iiryt.
Lloyd Fowler specializes on two
things; the state statutes and
ringing the church bell at the
Congregational church. Lloyd
knows almost every statute In the
book and he can ring that bell so
that Duffy Bowers hound almost
howls himself dizzy. Lloyd knows
exactly how to get the most out
Of that bell, and he realizes that
the hookup has been declared UNI
safe 30 he Is careful about II.
Years ago, that church bell
was the village fire alarm. When
the youngsters rang II ON July
: Fourth. many absent-minded
folks turned out 10 fight what
they expected 10 be o dangerous
fire. Once when Arson Ward
jlngled that bell on Independ-
ence Day eve, Willy Kiel an
swered the call In his night shirt
and was angry when he found
that II was oil o joke and that
there was no confiagrati0n In
town.
Cannon Hill takes It's name for
another patriotic custom. Ac-
cording 10 local legend, the VIII
lage cutups always used TO dis.
charge an old, rusty sanoothbored
field piece from the top Of Can
non Hill early on the 4th Of July.
Sometimes the boys took O key OF
beer UP there with them, along
with the powder, but they always
managed TO awaken the echoes
and arouse the natives. IN later
years, the Ku Klux Khan once
burned O fiery cross from those
very heights and the flames cast
an eerie glare against the dark
ling sky before tolerance and easy
understanding came 10 this vale
Of rustic harmony.
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Heavy military traffic Is causinI