The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-01

More estents0n 8n0uk0 De pat0
10 horne purchases and 10 the pa.
tronage Of cur own business %.
tabiishments. Every few days, .
chain store stuffs Ill the rural
post once boxes with inviting
price lists and attractive, colored
advertising matter. Then the %.
rade starts. People spend more
for gasoline trying 70 flnd . bar
gain than Che goods cost. We know
ono town officiai who motors 70
Woodbury. 10 get Q haircut, ri.
though everybody knows Tony, the
Barber, and almost everyone
knows that he turns out Q pretty
fair sort Of q Job. We know On.
other fellow who trades with Q
eatalog house. This man got
check Cor seven cents from Chi
eago the other day, and now no
n wondering where he can cash
IT,
Milk block gossip these days
concerns the recent Supreme
Court ruling that our milk com.
missioner has no constitutional
authority for trying TO control the
price Of milk. Only o few optim-
iAts ever thought he had. FARM
ers and consumers alike have
been bluffed about milk price con-
troll about long enough. Three
cheers for the supreme COURT
Now we're waiting 10 see some.
body to 10 70 court 10 determine
Whistler the bug hunters have the
right 70 trespass on private prop
erty. Courts clarity o lot Of dizzy
rulings and correct 0 mass OF
rather poorly prepared legislation
when they get around 10 the Job.
n we had better legal minds In
the General Assembly, farmer
and consumer alike might fare
better.
Down near the Skunk Hellow
road, We cav o couple Of local
housewives heading toward che
Pomperarg with fish poles the
other day. News has reached the
women felix's that good- sized trout
are 70 be had for the catching.
Perhaps ivs Just o stall on the
part Of the men 10 get women 70
spade the garden as they dig for
bait.
The improvements at the Bridge
Plaza are o credit TO this village.
Grass seed 10 sprouting and, II
some gifted native doesn't pas.
ture Q COW there, the Plaza will
soon DO more attractive than the
Waterbury Green.
Ivs funny about thst partieuIax
Improvement. Fer years, Charley
Bradley owned property down
there near the bridge and the
roadside banks were hidden By o
natural growth. Early morning
travellers sometimes saw pigs root
ing In the cutters, woodchucks
chewing up the sweet clover, and
skunks making their leisurely
way homeward through the
jungle. Then . New Yorker bought
the Charley Bradley Place, the
w. r. A. buses parked at the
Plaza, and now We have the state
Highway Department buslly en-
gagged In making the landscape
over 30 that Il looks Hike. Q West
chester County parkway approach.
why wasn't the work done while
Charley lived here? what brought
such sudden improvement 70 our
community?
Everybody Is now watching the
old road from the Emma Giles
place to the Gilbert property. A
New Yorker recently purchased
the old Gilbert homestead and.
according to reports, he scuifed-
up the tenders on his new car
while driving IN from the hard
road. Natives have used that high
way for years without getting any
thing worse than q little mud on
their wheels. A newcomer wal.
lops into the rocks beside the way
on almost his first trip IN. Will the
State Highway Commission start
improving the road now7 Or viii
they replace the surfacing ruined
by the contractors who built the
farm buildings for the new train
ing school7 All hands are wons
dering and watching.