The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-18
SOUTH BRITAIN BRIEFS
BY BILL GARRIGUs

many debates about the use of paper milk bottles. The paper milk bottle is sanitary, unbreak- able, and it doesn't show the cream line. If more paper bottles were used, the milk bottle exchange racket would be killed, fewer skulls would be fractured, and Holstein milk would become as popular as Jersey. Why Milk Com missioner Buckingham rules that milk in paper bottles shall sell for a cent more remains one, of those mysteries that come out of Hart ford every so often since the state government was reorganized.
 Reading the ruling about paper milk containers and the price fix ing by our milk czars reminds us of the possibility of interference with free enterprise that might re- suit if this ruling should go with out a challenge. There's nothing to prevent orders that canned milk be raised to the luxury class, that lunchrOoms serve milk in jugs, or that cows produce pasturized milk. What consumers would like to know is, why does milk sell for less i'm New York than here in these little Yankee towns where it is produced?
 Castings have been delivered for the new cedar tree harvesting ma chine invented by Flat Hill farm CT. Almost any day now we may hear this new invention gnawing and screaming its way through the brush on Flat Hill, or moving the ivy on Rattlesnake. Advance news of the invention states that the plan is to utilize circular saws at- tached to the front of a tractor. The operator will carry extra in- surance. That fellow who cut down cherry trees to get at the fruit should have waited. This machine would have saved him lot of hard work and worry.
 Pupils at Bullet Hill School wear their wraps these days. The stOvepipe is clogged with soOt and the flue refuses to draw. Bullet Hill School and Old Hundred are advertised in the State Register & Manual. Invitations are circulating, via the patty lines and by mail, for an unusually educational event at the South Britain Methodist Church on April 7th. On that date, MT. Ernest N. R0selle, technical adviser to the commission to build 2 new training school for mental detectives will lecture on the pro- gram of our newest and most mod cru state institution. A record crowd is anticipated.
 It's lucky that Myron Pierces pigpen is vacant. If it hadn't been, major catastrophe might have happened when the Sluiceway to the trapshop sprung a leak the other day and flooded the Pierce dooryard. Repair crews started work immediately and the holes were plugged before the Pompe- raug river ran dry. Work has been resumed at the trapshop after a brief delay. @@
 Gus Benson, an Alaskan sour dough, passed through the village the other day. Gus is an old gold miner and an expet on minerals. He has sold his chicken farm in Avon and is looking for new fields to conquer. Too bad there Is SO much snow around. Gus might have found some interesting speci- mems in our quartz outcroppings or we might have sold him 8 few shares of Nancy Gold Mine stock.
 With the approach of spring, the Main street speedway is opening for the season. It is no unusual sight to see dozen busses tearing up the gravel as they speed to or from the job up the line. Most of the village livestock has become properly alert and only a few dogs take chance crossing the street during rush hours.
 Nate EvartS has a rival. News reaches us of the capture of five skunks in three days on Q W0lcOtt farm. One animal was almost white, another practically solid black. Every one of the captured creatures was in good flesh and in full possession of all defense me- shanism. The 0ld-timers tell us that when the skunks start run ming, spring is just around the cor ner. We can stand warmer weather even with . few skunks thrown in for good measure.