The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21
LOOnatick
 COmmisshiOn
Bud Hinckley Who Ain't Quite Rish In His Head Almost Set the Town Hall on Fire and a Commission Examined Into His Sanitary
 Condishlon-Nothing
 Done

Bud Hinckley, who ain't quite right in his head. has went and got hisself into I trouble again. Last Tuesday morning as Lem Brown was going along Main St. in front of the new Town Hall. he seen smoke emanating from around the cor~ ner back of the building. and going around who should he find there but Bud Hinckley, who had got holt Of some matches somewheres and had built fire outen some old dead grass and sticks right close up to the Town Hall' which was gaining rapidly when Lem arrived. Bud was stooping over the fire warming his hands and didn't hear Lem come up behind him until Lem give him a kick where it would do Bud the most good and Bud run home crying. Then Lem he tramped out the fire. If Lem had not of arrived just when he did. the fire would have spread and like as not our new Town Hall. of which we are so proud. would be in ashes. Soon as the word got out what Bud had did, people said he ought to be put into a asylum somewheres before he would burn up the town. Being as Bud aint quite right in his head he has always been more or less of a menace to this community. Bud don't seem to see no more difference between right and wrong than between a couple of peas. and he ain't safe to let run around loose.
 Finally the talk got so high that Seth Dewberry, our lion-hearted town con stable, decided to appoint a loonatick commission to examine into Buds sani- tary condition, and if it was found that Buds reason was tottering on her throne, as you might say, Seth said he would have him removed to the Town Farm, Seth appointed Anne Hillyer, our we'll known lawyer: Eph Higgins, r. M, and Cyrus Hoskins. one of our most re- spectcd citizens, to examine into Buds mental works. and instructed them to make the examinashion the hrst chance they got
 We'll. the chance came on Thursday. Lem seen Bud on the sidewalk in front of his office and raising the winder told him to come inside and he would give him a stick of candy. Bud went right
 in and then Lem passed out and locking Bud in run for the other two members of the committee who returned with him. When they all got hack to Ames office it was a awful reck. During Ame's ab- sents Bud had upset tables and chairs and spilled the ink on the floor and scat tered Ame's papers everywhere so that he ain't found some of them yet and also did other damase too numerous to mention. Anne said he considered this was sufficient primy tachie evidence that
 
 ther. but Cy said thcv had better ex- anime Bud and ask him a few questshions which was done,
 "Rud Hinckley," says Amo very j1di- cious, eff the President of the United States would die who would get the joh?"
 ''The undertaken" says Bud very prompt.
 What does a man have to he in order to get buried with military honors?" asks Anne.
 "A corpse" says Bud
 Bud IIinckley. if you told your mother to go down cellar and get a pail of coal and she didn't do it. what would you do?"
 "I'd get it myself or I'd get 4 alltired good lickn'," says Bud
 Cy and Eph was most tiCklcd to death at the answers Bud give and they laughed at Anne until he got mad and told them to ask the witness a few questshlnns their self if they thought they was so blamed smart But Cy and Eph said they hadn't any ouestshlons to ask and they didn't