The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-05

mite and to the point. It IS sup posed to have read: '"The critter you wrote about is a farmer, and has no value"
 Farmers may be valueless, but their houses aren't, not in this vale of inequality. The reporter for . rival paper, who is also one of the SOuthbury assessors, chOr- tied in great gIee that the "Grand List Increased" Say, that's g mild way of putting 1t! That Grand List not only increased but it multiplied! About the only thing they failed to levy tax on was that hundred dollars the church gave to the preacher for the upkeep of his automobile. Ac- c0rding to published reports, mod est little Southbury increased her Grand List by $117,33O. Nauga- tuck, thriving village just over the hill, chalked up an increase of only $1OO,0O0.
 Since we reported a five-to-one increase in valuation caused by a shingling job on the Nancy Nit chell house, many other taxpay- CTS have come out of hiding and made their complaints. When the Democrat can spare page or two, perhaps we will do as the Wash ington correspondent does list them all.
 TIP! SURE FIRE! The best advertising stunt we can think of for 1940 will be the pulp hcation of a list of assessments in SOuthbury.
 Smoky Jenson, that Shadow Hollow Miser, was seen digging in the chip pile behind his shanty the other day. After he had re- tired, two local collectors scratched around to see what Smokey had hidden. It was some of those Nancy Gold Mine Sharesl Smok- ey was afraid he would be taxed for having them.
 . Anybody with any large-sized cedars, big enough for saw tim ber, should get in touch with Johnny Reynolds, (Third Select man), Miss Whats My Name" Airline Francis, or MT. Agnew the movie tycoon. According to rumor, new addition on the Agnew house will be ceiled in cedar Chats the way. Folks al- ways want something different. HemlOck should be plenty good enough for ceiling for anybOdy.)
 Teddy Liebreich, Bucks Hill pig, fahcier, isn't going to let MT. Agnew corner any cedar market. Ted aivertises that he will swap either shoats or turkeys for cedar posts. We're betting on Ted. He's content to take fence e-poSt-Size cedars. Why wait for trees to grow into saw logs when Ted will take 'em four inches at the tip? 5
 Cedars are slow-growing. They grow almost as slowly as intelli- gence. Years ago, South Britain people subscribed literally toward financing creamery. The cream cry failed. The property was sold for taxes. The creamery pro- moter next started selling real es- tate,, until 8 Georges Hill farmer caught him snooping around the barnyard, las reported in this column), and invited him to take distance. Now, that same pro- moter is' writing glowing accounts of Florida Indian Pumpkins, hop ing, we presume, to entice some innocent Yankee to plant Q mess and thus lay the foundation for another cannery venture. Pump kins are swell rations, but we bet- ter stick to sugar pumpkins, COW pumpkins, and jack lanterns. As sure as we embark on the cui- tiare of anything from Florida. we're asking for trouble. Sam Rierce, went tO Florida seeking re- lief from the cold and. snow of Pie.ce Hollow. Last we heard, Sam was sleeping under eight blankets and wearing trousers t0- bed, Florida is out, in 1s40'.