The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-06-28
A Little Buggy.

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that l ask for space in your valuable
paper for this communication, but
the heroic and persistent efforts on
the part of an outside friend
Totally disinterested, except to hold
job of saw bones on p. & l. n. and
add one more handle to his name) to
even at this late hour rescue the few
surviving citizens of our plague
striker city from the awful effects of
drinking Welser (accent on the ''wize"
because of an old dutch sourkraut |
who never lived here) water, is enough |
to bring the blush of shame to the
cheek of any old mossback refusing
to be rescued. Even in the face of
being accused of trying to get little
cheap advertising, | feel 1t my duty
to cast aside all modest pretensions
and boldly acknowledge my willing
ness to throw out (for considera-
tion) great chunks of life-preserving
dissertations on the death dealing
qualities of almost any old town,
provided it is not too near home.
have been feeling this way for
some time and when you attempted
to suggest some weeks ago that
Weiser water in its natural state was
better than Boise well water, or the
well water of any other town in the
country, in fact rather good, came
very near falling off the fence and
joining the reform forces right there,
but have such habit of hesitancy
that for the life of me | could not
make up my mind which side had the
best chance to win.
knew there was an awful smell
, around town sometimes, especially
at nights, and really suspected bugs
or bad air (the latter at Ashby sug-
gestion) but really could not decide
which was the most favorable loca-
ton to find the bugs. | discovered
an old we'll covered by drygoods
box and which had not been cleaned
out for so long that people had for
gotten its existence, or had irrigated
around it to make moss grow on the
E bucket until there was 30 much water
, in it that the bacteria ought to have
been drowned and the we'll not need
cleaning. l found another well
= which had been abandoned and was sc
close to closet that | thought the
latter be the best place for bugs, and
if there had been any bugs in the
we'll they would have moved by this
time. No man but one of pre-emi-
nent learning and numerous handles
to his name would have recognized
4 the well as the most favorable place
for bugs with the closet 30 close.
Had | not been so stupid l coulc
have tiled location on the bacterf
colony and had my son analyze the
water to find out how much iron haC
rusted off the old pump and if thu
> old cat was ripe yet, but l did no
:, have the brains necessary to evolv
4 such brilliant idea.
d You know as well as l do that il
&c dangerous bugs are not found il
:; those two wells so favorably located
" they are liable to be any time and
y one of them ever does bore throug
" that three feet of hardpan and &c
lr down into the water Of other well
,e that are kept properly curbed up an
~ the pup taken out every morning b
r would go on a strike for better fee
80 and shorter hours next day, or jun
onto the first member of the famil
',s appearing at the curb, with typhoi
repeater in each claw.
I 1t is our duty from humanitaria
standpoint to prevent these rockies
suicides and if you don't jumpin an
turn the journalistic dogs of WI
j loose on the bug found on the ca
cass of the cat soaking there in tt
we'll I'll smash you and hire few co
on umns of the Salt Lake Tribune al
ms have DIR. Shores spread himself Their