The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-02-19

IOTe N4Ts Ndoo
built huge log cabin and dam
med ravine to form pond. That
pond was lonesome without bull
frogs, so George brought in con-
signment of frogs from Texas, and
they have been there ever since.
Frogs from the Rio Grande coun-
try now awaken the echoes of East
Hill, where Bert Garfield once
roamed and where the dawn
comes up like thunder, out OF
Poverty Hollow, across the way.
According to rumor, the one and
only night when those froge failed
to sing, in season, was an evening
when the Ku KluX Khan was
abroad. They all kept silent to
hear what was going on.
Mr.. Booths dog, TOots, has dis
temper. Eddie Hveem's collie is
i'll with an attack Of laryngitis.
Even the dogs have suffered this
past winter.
The price of turkeys is advanc-
ing steadily. While fancy birds
were bringing only q and % cents
a pound at Christmas, a recent
local sale was conducted at 80
cents on the hoof. Maybe we will
have only one Thanksgiving in
1910, after all. Perhaps that will
be all that we can afford.
Antiquarian forays into this
peaceful vale continue. Sort out
your old glass, polish the pewter.
and glue up the what-nOt. Col
lectors are buying everything
from wreaths of wax flowers
designed for memorials to the de-
parted to thunder mugs and mol
asses jugs.
There's no sweeter music on
earth than Swede StoltS Hay
seeders. March End is the date;
Southbury Community Hall Is the
place: the sponsors are the Veter-
ans of Foreign Wars Post No.
1907. ...... and this time we Will
feature Horace Green eating hot
dogs.
Last Saturday the committee
sought everywhere for MIR. Green
but he was nowhere to be found.
Horace probably stayed home be-
cause of the bad wheeling, but 1t
might have been because Of that
Finnish Relief Fund Dance the
previous Tuesday. 1t seems that
Horace locked horns with Punk
Norton over a technically ON
neutrality, and the debaters came
to blows that is, Punk came
TO blows, after Horace hit him on
the bicepS. 1t wouldn't have been
like that IL the veterans had Civ
en- the dance; they know the inn
portance Of ratiOns and both Punk
and Horace would have had sOme-
else to chew ON besides each
others arms.
That vocalist with Swede Stolt's
HaySeederS compares favorably
with the highly publicized Grace
Moore. When Swede's little artist
steps up to the mike and SINCE
"At The Close of the Long, Long
Day." and Swede sort of shushes
the strings, even the toughest
hired man in town gulps and turns
misty eyed. Somehow we've simply
got to find Long Bob Chase and
let this girl sing for him.
Romance is great stuff. 1t makes
lions out of timid men and turns
a tough guy soft. Herb Warner
has been known to bow to rO-
nance, and we know that Herb
was weaned ON tigers milk. ,RO-
nance enables one rather ordinary
driver we know to negotiate Pur-
chase Hill safely when it's sheet
Of ice, and 1t makes another skim
flint unwrap his pursestrings.
Bugeyed youth succumbs to ro-
nance; toOthless old age falters,
too. Perhaps the best proof of the
efficacy Of romance as cure-aIl
is I'm Paradise, where Grover
Cleveland Harrison and a lady af-
fectionatly known as Boxcar
Annie keep house. Armies vocal.
Growers quiet as q mouse. To-
gether they make a team. Since
they married, Boxcar Annie hasn't
tried to burn up Flag Swamp or
done anything else to attract the
attention Of the press. Romance.
and catnip tea, are great nerve
steadiers. We have them both. in
Paradise.
A blacksmith advertises that
he has lost. an anvil. He could
have saved money by locking for 1t
himself. Hardly. anybody knows
what an anvil looks like these
days. j.
Walter Munson has completed
his current tasks as tax assessor
and is now In the employ Of the
Waterbury Farrell Foundry and