The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-14
SWOrmd!
ED Hoover's Bses on the Rampage Awful xsItement In Binsv'"s While It 1 asted-The Bees HoIed up In a Tree
 Several Stuns

Eb Hoover's bees has swarmed again and are at present at large somewhere in the vicinity. ED. Hoover's bees has always been more or less of menace to this neighborhood. and since this last swarm there has been considerable talk of getting out a injunckshion re- straining Eb against keeping bees.
 Last Tuesday morning ED noticed that one butt of bees was some rest less, but he didn't attach any partickler importance to it at the time. As ED saws. A bee is more or less of a rest lesst critter at all times. so ED tux chew of tobacker and sauntered down to Hen weathersby's store. where he got into a argument with Brad Slo- comb as to whether or not the earth is round. Brad claimed 1t was fiat. but Brad allowed 1t was square like block of wood. only some larger. While they was argvine Mrs. Hoover come running down Main St. hollering to Eb to for goodness sakes come homo irmejit be- ing as one of the bee hives was swarm ing up awful. ED he struck out Tor home, follored by a large crowd of our we'll knowed citizens. including their wives and childern By the time Fps residence was reached there was large attendance present.
 Jest as the mob reached the Hoover home the swarm of bees rig straight up in the air and started to fly over Bing- vile. Everybody present followed. with ED Hoover, owner of the bees. and Seth xoxx ufrrh leading the crowd. The possy climbed over fences and tramped up vegetable gardens in their mad efforts to keep up with the bees. and the wimmen and childern, not being able to do same. was left some distance in the rear. After the bees had flew about quar- ter of a mile they begin to sag down, and blamed if they didot go and light on a red wool undershirt hanging on the clothesIine in the backyard of Glenn 1 Perkins house. Mrs. Perkins had her wash out yet. being as 1t rained Mon- day and the clothes didn't dry The | red undershirt which they lit on be- | longed to Glenn, and we persume the 1 beAs selected 1t to swarm on because | it was of sch giddy hue. Clem said afterwards that he would tarnashion sight ruH uHler have the bees swarm on that shirt when 1t was on the clothes line than when 1t was on him. We per sume Glenn is right about this.
 l We'll as soon as the bees had lit the crowd stood off at some distance and of fered sujjestshons as to how to ketch the bees. Constable Dewberry sujjested for ED to walk right up to where the bees was hanging from the red shirt and
 pick out the queen bee and take her back home when the other bees would all fol Ter after ED said somehow or other he hated to think of prodding around among
 that swarm hunting for the queen for
 fear he couldn't find her. He said If he
 should find her and take her along he had
 no doubt that the other bees would fol-
 Ter fast enough, but that was sometbine
 he desired to avoid if possible. Eb told
 Seth to go ahead and pick out the queer | if he fS,t that way about 1t. but Setf
 said 1t wouldn't look well for hisser tc
 do 1t being as he was a stranger to tht
 bees and not so we'll acquainted with
 them as ED was