The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-24
MILK TEAM
 RUN OFF.
Heck Peters Meets With q CaIammltty and His MIX
 & WagIn Is a Total Loss

There was a horrible thing happened in Bingville early last Thursday morning, which stirred our inhabitants up to tur- rible pitch of anxiety for a while, which they hope they may never feel again. Luckily nobody was hurt, but there was many narrow excapes and instead Of writing this thrilling account of what took place. we might jest as easy be writing obituary notices with tear dimmed eyes.
 Last Friday night Heck Peters. who had been colleckting milk and cream and buttermilk in Bingville and vicinity. and had colleckted a whole wagon load of same in cans, left his wagon standing in front of his residence on Main street, and put his hosses up for the night, expect ing to take a early start for the Co. seat the next morning (Thursday) where he sells all his milk, making one trip per wk It was about o'clock the next morning that Heck was all hitched up ready to start At the last minnit he thought he would go into the house and ask his wife If she wanted him to do any ernds at the Go. seat for her. so he left the horses standing and went in.. |. While Heck was inside they was a gust of wind blowed a old copy of the aBing- vile Bugle offen Cy Hoskin's front piaz- ga, rite acrost the road and under the noses of the horses, and blamed if they didn't rar up and start down Main street attached to the wagon full of milk in cans lickety split
 Heck heard the horses start, and rushed from the house in time to see them dis appear in a cloud Of dust. The mad brutes continued down the middle of Main street at a turrible rate, with the wagon swinging from one side to the other and the cans rattling with a deef- ening roar that sounded like a thunder storm coming up, only louder
 Seth Dewberry. our lion hearted town constable. who was sitting in front of Hen Weathersby's store thinking up som clews or something, saw the runaway horses coming and run out and stood in the middle of the road and waved his hat and tried to shoo them back and otherwise intimidate them. But the horses was scared to death and wouldn't in- timidate worth cent and when they was within about a hundred yds. of Seth he got out of the road as fast as he could lick 1t and the wagon swung by and a five gal. can of sweet milk bounced outen the wagon and struck Seth a crack on top of the head. Seth wouldn't of cared for this except the plug come outen | the can and our brave constable was blame neer drounded with sweet milk which soaked him up and run down his
 neck and made him feel out of temper and uncomfortable. From that on the cans continued to spill outen the wagon and bust until the street was swimming in milk as you
 might say, and all the cats and dogs in town was out in the road tapping 1t up
 and no doubt glad that 1t happened.
 | At the lower end of the town was Hod Quigly driving up street with a load of manure, and when he seen the runaway
 team coming, Hod he was afeared~ they
 wouldn't be room enough to pass in the
 road so he turned his team back tother
 way and licked 'em into a run, spilling
 most of the manure in his wake When
 Hod reached the crossroads below town
 he turned out jest in time to let the
 team shoot past. Hod says at that time
 they was only four cans of cream in the
 wagon and they was having a awful
 rough time of 1t.
 Plutarch Stone of Sorrow Hollow hap
 pened to be in town with a horse and
 buggy which was hitched in front of the l P. o. and Heck and him got into the
 buggy and druv outen town in quest of
 the team which they calkilated they would
 haft to go as far as the Go. seat for. All l the way along they come acrost milk
 cans and Heck would ring his hands and
 say. "oh. my milk, my milk r'
 Two mile outen town at the foot oi Noodle Hill they found the two horsel