Newspaper Page Text
WE PRINT
Accident*: ^Marriages'! .aVut
Scandali, With Qreat^Cheer
BECAUSE
WE KNOW, i
WHONOUR SUBSCRIBERS!*
WEx’ALSO ’ PRINT |
JOB WORK i
a
mrit NEWTON.NEWKIRK
. ’c5»VH«*ir'Toi iT br'a. v K , #mii» 1 .
• •• • Myii»-.~v»»v»ae •*>•••••• •••••••••••• •••••••••*•••■•••'• • «i:*« ••
EVERYBODY
WANTS
SUMTHINK
what is the result?'
THEY GET NOTHINK
lADVERTISE
ilN THB' r
BINGVILLE BUGLE*'!
And See Whet Vou Oct j
fi\ ri>w^£;o ! sT*\x*e
HOW’/.'MJJCH.
HoXiJy, 16'
‘I'KfcEOl Itfi
THEJ
'brass''
Wou Vo.
r-A rHEit'
[?**-&*■ IvT,
.1
VtoZ<STJ_tz, j,
irtrEtoEaR, iw
^**®»*Pr» 'of* !*rt® 6xa&L ASRtftttKb
M /spare
4
IWHIRE
HAVE I v
HEARnTHbT
VOOKC otFonEj
Sf
t^Ti 1 I 1 1
BTu Cot; down on ttis knres ahS
provuS'bd ms yn*z ntvEKTe brink
ANOTHER, DROP ASUONCr'AS wt LlYejQ
THE BIN0V1LLB BDBLB
The Leading Paper of the County
Bright, Breezy, Bellicose, Bustling
! 7«n toll*** Id tdT«rti»iaf 1
jotapTn “
VYH-DCKTS
■ BUT Ttt Ml
BUNYOR .
t ACtttS^t
•rt.ft?v\& uu
JASPER TTR'Bia
i* TROUB'UtDf
wTlt.h f A Son ion
C LATtVf The r rt A Sl
To wt AR/A
'ON ONE. FOOT^AnB
A-NO. <\"0N> THE.
TCiTRE.^.)
[the OLD LADY WM
)Give me THUNBER,
TOpE HIS PANTS i £ f)/- —
TOTH E R .L AY
YOU have FOuRTi
&-JJ.E5.5ES/ WHERE
The regular meeting of the Se
leetmen was held in the Town HjJ!
last Wednesday ev’g, and as a re
sult a black cloud of callumny and
disgrace and contumely hangs over
Hank Dewberry, our Town Clerk,
who, when eleckted to office, swore
to perform the duties of his office
to the best of his several ability.
After the selectmen had set
around in meeting assembled and
chewed tobaeker and talked about
crops and horse racing and about
everything they could think of ex
cept something pertaining to the
best interests of the town, Eph Hig-
S ins, our P. M., who is also First
electman and had charge of the
meeting, called on Hank to make
his report and to state plainly be
fore the meeting what amount of
funds, if any, had accumulated in
the town treasury.
Hank ari* kind of white around
the gills and said he regretted to
state that the amount of $1.74
which he had received from his
predecessor he had went and lost
outen a hole in his pocket, and
hadn’t been able to find same, and
that therefore there was nothing in
the treasury.
This was a turrible shock to
them present to leant that all the
town funds has been swep away at
one fell swipe, as you might say.
Hank he sat down and leaned back
and took another chew of tobaeker
kind of deefiant like. Chairman
Higgins said he calkilated that
something ought to be did about
losing the money, and asked Ama-
ziah Gookins and Hen Weathersby,
the two other selectmen, what they
was in favor of doing. Amaziah
and Hen said they was in hearty
sympathy with anything which the
chair saw fit to do about it. Eph
asked Hank if he was willing to
make up those $1 and 74 cents back
to the town. Hank sai4 he was
willing to make it up as far as he
was concerned, but that there was
oneobjeckshion to doing this. Asked
what this objecksion was, Hank
stated that he didn’t have a red cent
to make it up with, and didn’t ex
pect to have, being as times was
turrible hard and money very
skeeree with him.
After the selectmen had talked
hile the meeting -vac adire-rned
There has been a awful lot of talk
going around town about what
really become of them $1 and 74
cts, A good many people say that
Hank Dewberry is a grafter and
that Eph and Hen and Amaziah.
our selectmen, is in with him on it.
Some has been so bold as to say
they believe that the four divided
up the $1.74 of the town’s funds
among themselves, and fixed up for
Hank to say that he had went and
lost the money outen his pocket.
We don’t know whether this is
true or not, but if it is, we insist
on the matter being investigated.
LATER—‘We have just learned
that the town selectmen “arc very
indignant because they have been
accused of graft and will hold a
secret private session in the Town
Hall next week to investigate their-
selves and prove their innocents to
their own satisfacksion. The se
lectmen state that the-reason they
have been trying to shield Hank is
because if they done anything to
him they was afeerd that Seth Dew
berry. Hank's brother, who is Town
Constable, would arrest them and
put them in the lockup.
Let this matter be sifted down to
the bitter dregs.
Including lightnin', Thunder &
Wind Which Visiited Bingvilie
Last Tuesday—Terrible Excite-'
ment in Our Midst While It
Lasted—Full Particklers
Same Below
It Exploded
There was turrible eommoshlen In
Hen Weathersby*s store tother night
Hen don’t have much faith in the Bing
vilie fire department and being as he
is always afraid that fire Will break
out In hit store and bum him out he
has taken precaushioni to fight the
flames. When Hen was to the Co.
seat tother day he purchased a con
trivance which is called a fire extin
guisher and brought it home with him
and set it inside the store door where
he could git at it handy if the store
should get on fire.
Tother ev-g while all the fellera was
sitting around in the store chewing,
smoking and talking. Bill Hepburn, our
irtijticl; blacksmith walked into the
store. Soon as he seen the fire ex
tinguisher Bill grabbed it up and
turned it upside down and says, "What
the thunderation’s this thing, Hen?”
Before anybody could answer Bill the
fire extinguisher began to squirt and the
stuff which was inside of it hit some of
the fellers in the face and it went all
over the store and the show cases and
put out the lamp and left the room in
darkness which waa worse because then
nobody could tee where to dodge and
it’s awful being squirted on in the dark.
"What’ll I do with itr hollered Bill
“Take it oat!” yelled half a dozen
voices but Bill waa so exsited that he
didn’t hear and he put hia hand over
the nozzle and tried to stop it that
way and the stuff flew into his eyes and
wet him all over and finally Bid got
mad and hauled off and throwed the
fire extinguisher through the winder
breaking out a whole sash of glass.
Hen Weathersby was turrible mad and
said Bill would baft to pay for dair.a-
rii'i, but Pi!* s fc* wont
Bingvilie has not yet recovered from
the awful thunder and lightnin storm
which visited our midst last Tuesday.
It begin to grow black in the west
about 9 a. m. Several of our promin
ent citizens was setting out in front of
Hen Weathersby’* stor* at the time,
and Brad Hinsley remarked that it
looked like min. Jim Petertby he mid
he calkilated them cloud* was mostly
wind clouds ana wouldn't amount to
much. The feller* they continued to
tet around and whittle and chat and the
clouds come a-rollin up outen the weat
and bye and bye there come a awful
glaring bolt of lightnin right down out-
en the aky, as you might say, follered
by the loudeat dap of thunder .you
most ever heard. The bolt of lightnin
was so awful bright that it most blind
ed everybody out in front of the store,
and they all ifarted for home at one
man at hard as they could run and put
down the winders and locked the doors.
For the next half hour the awful
display of lightnin whieh follered beg-
gers descripshien. Seth Dewberry, our
lion hearted town constable, couldn’t do
anything to stop it Seth said if beat
any Fourth of July exhibition of fire
works he ever seen. After the first
two or three flashes Seth retired to hit
edler and crawled into a potato bin.
and hit wife couldn’t indooee him to
come upstairs until a hour after the
storm was over.
Mrs. Hod Perkin* was making Hod a
shirt on the towing machine at the
time with the winder up right in front
of her, and she says that one bolt of
lightnin come in through the winder
and struck the maeheen and glanced
off and pasted out through another
winder, but the chances are Mrs. Per
kins was tkeert to bid the didn't know
.what she was talkin about.
Bill Hepburn, our irtittick black
smith. was working at hia forge at the
time and Bill says a bolt come in the
front door of the shop and played
around the anvil and run up hia leg and
then bounded on right up through the
root. Bill hat been showing folk* a
hole In the roof to prove it, but every
body knows that hole hat been there
for five years or more. Bill was awful
tkeert He throwd down hit hammer
and cut for home, and when he got
there he got down on hit knees and
prayed and promitt hit wife that he
wouldn’t never drink another drop of
lieker at long as he livdd, being as he
felt like as if he desired to live a better
and nobuller life. LATER—Bill went
to the Oa. seat yesterday and got full
as usual.
Ever sinst the storm Bud Hinckley,
who ain’t quite right in his head, has
been to nervous and worked up that he
ain’t had no pleasure outen life. Bud
he ain’t a mite afeard of the lightnin,
but the awful claps of thunder like to
of skeert him plum to deth, and ever
since the storm all you baft to say to
him is “Bool" to tee him jump and yell
and run for heme. The next day after
the storm, while Bud’s mother went to
Hare 'ip *'-* duhoan ai*cr mg the
been struck!’’ A elm tree which stands
at the north end of town was struck
and split clean open.
Ike Hawley, who lives two mile west
of Bingvilie, had a cow to be struck
for him and killed instant. She was a
good cow, too, and it it a sad blow to
Ike, who drest her and sold her out for
beef. A great many folks wouldn't buy
any of the beef on the grounds that It
was full of elecktridtv and wasn't fit
to eat. We took a thunk from Ike,
however, in exchange for a yearia back
subscription, and we didn't notice any
elecktncity in it to speak of.
There wasn't much rain with the
storm—it was mostly thunder and light
nin and wind. The wind done consid
erable damage. Mrs. Lem Brown
washed on Tuesday, being at the had a
sick headache on Monday and couldn’t
Well, she had her wash out on the
line about the time the storm come up
and along come a blast of wind and
tore the clothes offen the line and car
ried them all over town. After the
storm was over she found everything
but a shirt snd one sock of Lem's,
whieh she couldn' find hide nor hair of.
Widow Skinner says she seen the shirt
in Mrs. Hank Dewberry’s back yard
a hour after the storm, and Mrs. Brown
Is of the opinion that Mr*. Dewberry
got it and pertenda that she don't know
who it belongs to, being a* the says it
ain’t a been a week sinst the heard Mrs.
Dewberry say that Hank was turrible
hard up for shirts. She says Hank
will be watched like a hawk and if he
is caught with her husband's shirt on he
will be persecuted to the full extent of
the law.
Other damage was did by the wind
elsewhere. Ranse Smiley went out his
back door to set the rain barrel under
the spout and the wind btowed a brick
offen the kitchen chlmbley and the brick
fell on Ranse’s foot, the one which hat
the corn on, and Ranse says that com
has ached him ever ainat worsen a
* 00th - !
Personals & Locals Mixt
What we need as we go to press is
rain, but we have notisea that we don’t
git everything we need in this world.
Several hens have been stole from
our midst by foxes lately. A ben is
too much of a luckshury to be et up by
a thievin fox. Let this bo stopped.
Eb Simpson varnished hit buggy and
left it standing out in front of nis bam
to dry last Tuesday, and he hadn’t enny
more than got through the job until' up
come that wind atorm and Mowed the
varnish so full of dust that Eb will haft
to go to work and sandpaper it all off
again and do the job over. Eb says it
most makes him sick to think of it.
Lon Peters had a three-year-old colt
to step on hit foot while leading the
animal to water last week, and it made
Lon to allfired mad that he hauled off
and kicked the eolt in the ribs, and the
colt pulled the halter strap outen Lon’s
hand and run off, and he didn't find the
brute for two days and then had to
pa v^ for its keep.
its Mary Ann Whlttaere has pur
chased material for a dimity dress at
Hen Weathersby’* store and will have
it made up toon at the can decide what
it the latest style.
Rufe Atkins went to bed late tother
night and was to sleepy that he forgot
to blow but hit candle, and as a result
it burnt out and filled the room with
wkk smoke, and Lon woke up and hol
lered "Fire!” and disturbed all the
neighbors in the vicinity before he
realized what waa the matter. Then
he went to bed and went to sleep again,
but from that time until morning people
kept knocking on the door below to find
out particklers about the fire, and Lon
didn’t scarcely git any rest alt night.
But it serves him right for hollering
Fire!”
on the roads until late fall as usual,
and then being as it be so late they
will probably wait until the follering
summer.
Lsfe Whittaere broke the big blade’
outen bis pocket knife cutting kindling
wood with it tother morning. Why
don't you use a axe, Lafe—that’s what
a axe it for, not a knife.
Hen Weathersby desires us to say
that he it all otft of raosqulter screens,
but expect* to have in another fine line
next week. If you who ain’t got no
screens as yet can put up with the
motquitere just a few days longer Hen
will help you out. Patronize home
trade, even if it’s a Inconvenience to
do so.
Solon Tripp has been limpin for a
week and tother night Solon happend
to think to look Into his shoe when he
took it off in the ev’g, and what was
his conltemashlon to find a sharp nail
sticking up on the inside about half
an inch. Then Solon Icnow’d what
made him limp.
Mrs. Lige Green papered her front
parlor all herself from her butter
money which the made last winter. It
is a good job, too, and looks real nice.
Dave Smiley purchased a empty mo-
Isstes barl from Hen Weathersby for
75 cts. list week, and then Dave het
up the barl on the stove and blamed if
he didn’t gel two gallons of molasses
outen it When Hen found this he
charged Dave up with the molasses, but
Dave says when he pay* Hen for those
molasses it will be the coldest day
Bingvilie ever seen.
J 'abez Crunj bad a cow to have 2
f» last week. Who can beat this
for a cow havin 2 calf* at once? They
are both healthy and doing well as
could be expected under the circum
stances.
Country Correspondence
SLAB CITY
Mrs. Jemima Pepper had a calf !as|
week whieh fell through a hole in the
cow itable and broke its leg.
Jaspar Tarbell has been troubled tur
rible with a bunion of late which is why
Jasp has to wear a No. 11 shoe on hia
right foot, whereas he only has to wear
a No. 9 on hit left This is tho only
wty he can seem to get relief.
Arioch ’Perkins met with what might
be called a peculiar axident last week.
Arioch went to slide down out of the
mow hole in hit barn and the scat of
his pants caught on a projectin board,
and took the hole teat outen his pants,
at you might say. When his wife teen
him she said the pants wasn’t scarcely
worth patchln, being as there wasn't
hardly anything left to patch to. She
says Arioch is the hardest man on
pants the knows of and that he
usually wears em out first in the seat
Why shouldn’t he? There’s where ha
uses em the most settin around doing
nothing.
Hester Jones, who lc»t her husband
a year ago and was married again last
month, don’t get along any too well
with her tecVxnd husband, so roomer
says. We calkilate Hester would of
been better if site bad let well enough
alone.
Jake Haines was down to Pingville
last Sunday, where he Sundayed with
his brother Amri and family, returning
horr.e Sunday ev’g in time to help
ith the milking He says Bingvilie
is a very lively place
Slab City is growing very fast these |
days. There was a new family