The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
SOUTH BRITAIN BRIEFS
BY BILL GARRIoUs

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 City folks who think conpet.- ton IS stid should try selling COW feed and dalry rations,. According to cur iatest survey, (noG con- ducted by the w. P. Al, we have thirteen dealers bidding for the dairyIna1l's dollar. Here, too, we see the effects of co-OperativeS, The cowfl,an with kale buys at the co-op, and pays more for his grain in many eases. The milk producer without cash uses his credit and buys from regular feed store, Thank it over neigh borsl Look sharp, act bright, use as much sense as you can muster. and buy from the man who pays taxes in your township.
 It pays to advertise. When the chiCktncOOp down near the trap shop suffered from mink raids, the straw boss shot the mli1k and probably spoiled the hide. Nate Evarts would have been glad to set trap and eliminate the pest in the natural way. Nate would have taken the pelt for pay, and some wins0me young lady would have had 8 neck piece or a corner of jacket. Mink skins are val- uable.
 Leslie Hatstat. Charley Gris-. graber, Frank Matula, and Sidney Piatt, Jr., were recent; visitors ill New Haven. While in the Elm City, our boys called on MT. Err nest RoSeile, at the State Train ing School Commission, and made formal applications for employ ment.
 RumOrs are queer things. They, drift in from hill and vale like the ground mists at twilight. This rumOr reaches us from Pierca Hollow. (As soon as we can get Pete Platt to shin up and checE. maybe it can be verified.) One of the critics of the, hospital job claims that the big l74-foot smokestack has settled about foot and a half; the same source has 1t that the stack didn't settle evenly, that it is eight inches out of plumb. Maybe a good hick- orp fire would furnish enough heat to dry out the stack evenly and relieve the frost strains? Smokey Jenson, charcoal Dur11'. CT from Shadow Hollow, pattlcd his way back to civilization ths other day and questioned the au- thority of this column. Smokey claims that our First Selecumar isn't James Edward Coer III. as we have sometimes identified rll1.. Smoky means well, but !.e doczrE read. On Page 537, Volume III c. Burpee's monumental book caL toned "The Story of Connecticut" Smoky Jenson can find more than a column of copy headed James Edward Coer, IT."
 That story is the factual des- scriptiOn of the life and accom- plishments of our leading town official. The tale relates that MT. Coef bought a farm 'near South- bury" in 1921, that "He secures and preserves farm implements of former times and incidentally, maintains two oxen, now rare draft animals on our farms" s. That historian should have gone up to see Nate Beardsley if he thinks oxen are "rare." The book lauds MT. Coer's keen apprecia- tion of the importance of agricul- ture and states that 'Interesting and enlightening is his hobby for bringing to life modern under standing of some of the features of past agriculture, somewhat af- ter the example of Henry Ford"
 All-in-all. MT. Burpee does Mr. Coer proud. Folks should read this book and get 8 line on things before they criticize us for add ing numerals on names. In pass ing, 1t should be noted that Smoky Jenson doesn't appear in the book at all. He just didn't have the subscription price handy when the canvasser came around and, if he had been so fortunate as to possess $35 at one time, he probably would have found more productive ways to invest 1t. Stick around, Smoky: where there's a market for books like that, may be there's a market for charcoal. City writers who flip the pages of 8 dictionary to find fancy names for common things are sometimes painful. Ton don't maintain" oxen, you keep them! If anybody asked Nate Beardsley how many oxen he maintained" Nate just wouldn't know the an- swer. MT. Beardsley. keeps about 60 head, he buys his grain locally, he doesn't pattern after Henry Ford or anybody else. Nate is just Nate, which is another way of saying he's the salt of the earth!