The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-09
SOUTH BRITAIN BRIEFS
BY BILL GARRIGUS


 tising has left its mark on the hin- terlands. Bulk oatmeal, wheat flour in barrels, sugar by the 100 pounds, codfish, soda crackers, loose prunes, and hundred other old standby rations are obsolete. Toay, folks buy because of 8 trick trademark and seldom realize that they pay a handsome premium for branded goods. Even salt pork isn't as good as 1t used to be, and salt pork has saved many lives.
 The best dish on earth iS ven. ison, fried in . skillet with plenty of sliced salt pork. Eat the deer meat and give the pork to the cat. Oliver Gilbert was just polishing off mess of veniSOn, one evening when Bethuel Treat came snOOp- ing around looking for ratiOns. Treat wrinkled his nose, went over to the stove and fished out q slice of Drowned pork. "GOSh!" he lisped, That's the best salt pork I ever ate" (Of course it was. It was favored with venison.)
 Incidentally, Oliver Gilbert hap pens to be the only Democrat call- ed for jury duty recently. He is under orders to report to New Ha- ven to pass on the possible guilt Qf unfortunates who have become entangled with the law.
 Since Bill Harrison passed away, many stories of his thrift have been circulating through town. MT. Harrison was one of the last Suc- cessful tobacco farmers in this region. His weed was sturdy, and profitable. Farming in country where most men would have starved, William Henry Harrison raised good leaf and sold it for cash that he banked
 One local motorist went to Wa terbury to get his 1940 registra- tion. He took the papers handed to him, came home and clipped on the new yellow tabs. Then he read the registration. It belonged to an- other motorist on the other side of Kettletown. Check up on your reg istry. Maybe it isn't yours at all.
 It doesn't do to leave anything of value beside the road. When the Hawley Bridge was replanked, 8 local taxpayer came down from his sidehill farm and asked for the old timber. The bridge gang gave 1t to him, 60 he went to work pill ing it up. A couple of days later, the farmer came down to load his lumber but every stick had been hauled away. Nothing goes to waste in the country, not even skim milk.
 Mitchell's Dairy has recently dressed up their drivers. One we saw the other day wore more gilt braid than the captain of the Queen Mary. Probably city folks want their milk delivered by men in uniform but this particular out fit would have scared the day. lights out of COW.
 The best liar in town was for cigner. He came here from York state, and brought g choice as- sOrtment of tales with him. His best fib had even a fish story stop ped. According to this fellow, he once picked 300 quarts of huckle- berries in the forenoon, knocked off for lunch. drove to town and sold the fruit in the afternoon. He claimed that he made $50 that day.
 The coon dog market is slipping, Folks aren't as interested in coon hunting as they used to be. Char ley Hinckley, Q lanky hunter from New Haven, once made Q stand ing offer Of ti00 for any dog that would tree . coon.
 News 0f the ceuntFy. wide slump ln business lk taken with . grain Og salt here. Banner has C that the leeal tFnpAhep has lnbt landed . large order. We always said that somebody would hear about those traps. eyeU lf they weFe net adveF' Ilped.
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