The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-26

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 SmOky's buddy set fire to his house and burned it to the ground while trying to destroy a white faced hornets nest. To cap the climax. the man got stung so badly that he had to spend a week in bed.
 Lyman Green has the WPA clearing up his pasture and fence lines again. According to the regu- lations, a sponsor" of a WPA poject has to put up 25@o of the cost thereof. Lyman hasn't put up anything that we have heard about, but this is an election year. We saw four men, one dog, and a single scythe operating at the Green Farm on Wednesday last. Just downstreet, our town road gang was cutting roadside bush at a much lower cost to the tax payer and all hands were working.
 One of the HicOck lads has been cutting roadside brush with fine, new tractor. Moving along at about five miles per hour, he turns a neat job and 8 wide swath.
 The Methodist church narrowly escaped destruction when large maple limb crashed the gable end. Luckily, nobody was attending service at the time. If we had the Reverend Fuller as a preacher there, he would have had that limb cut into firewood, the brush clear ed away, and fresh paint on the scared boarding by this time. Unfortunately, the Reverend Full CT is now in Vermont, but we'll bet he has a good woodpile that he cut himself. MT. Fuller never sponged on anyone.
 We heard about 8 Yankee just the other day who very thriftily purchased a parcel of canned goods from 8 grocery that had been burned out. The man found that all the labels were destroyed, SO every meal became an adven- ture and a guessing contest. He never knew whether he had se- lected a can of tomatoes or 8 container of pineapple. The supply lasted for months and the mans nerve suffered severely. He fi- nally became so expert that he could tell the difference between canned baked beans and tinned cabbage just by the swiShing sound of the liquid in the cans.
 Attention! Henry Mccarthy had a customer the other day with a foot so. small that not a shoe in the place fitted.
 Put Smith went fishing the other day and caught only few very ordinary pumpkin seeds. Put said he knew he was fooling away his time because the sign was wrong. MT. Smith fished by the almanac, by signs of the zodiac. and by feel. He's miles ahead of all the scientific piscat0rial ex- perts. Put says that almost any good patent medicine almanac will do. He will furnish instructions to anybody on the art of sign fish, ing for half dollar.
 The Lest fishing we have ever heard of is obtained where the sign reads "No Fishing Allowedl
 Squaw Rock is as peaceful as a graveyard since that last battle. We haven't heard of . single riot up that way in weeks.
 The old Kohl place is having another face-lifttng. The state paid about s35.00o for that prop erty and the house was supposed to be an excellent value ct that price, according to the experts Now the taxpayers are nicked for remodeiing. someday. maybe well have m economical administration of state affairs or shall va say "intelligentS"
 Mrs. Pratts husband Charles WI acquitted Of . Kidnapping chars brought in Massachusetts by h daughter and her husband. At thi time. the parents and grandparen agreed io Hhare custody os the chll whom the pFntts conlended he been given Co theif care tg Ai