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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-12
An Apology

It Is with deep regret we haft to send out this weeks Bugle with our editorial somewhot mixed up and natchurally our army of readers will look for explana- shion somers in the paper and 90 here 1t is:
 Last Friday morning Bill Hepburn come into our offise and sed he had to make a speshial trip to the Co. seat to get some bolts and supplies and asst us to accom- pany him. We accepted the invite with grate cheer. being as we have been stickin purty close to work this winter and went with Bill At the Co. seat we met sew eral old friends at five or six different places and after dinner Bill hitched up and we started for Bingville. On the way Bill he liekered up and before we reached Teck's Hill he managed to throw us out of the buggy twice while he sot in the wagon and laffed it to bust. When we finally reached Bingville at o'clock Bill went to his shop while we unlocked our ofise and went to work. We was that tired from riding in Bill's rick ety old wagon that we could hardly walk and stept on the offise cat with one foot and into the ash pan with the other be- fore we got our coat of. Then we tried to take our boots off without using our boot jack and we lost our balunce and tipped the paste pot all over us. By that time our head begin to ache so bad we could scairsiy see whot we was doing when we set our editorial. and begun at the bottom and set it all up back end to. as you might say As we broke our specs when we fell we couldn't see this until we went to press and 1t was too late for us to change and git the Bugle out this week. As for Bill he ort to be ashaimed of hisself for gitting drunk when he has a respectful feller townsman with him and editorially speakin we will never again go to the Co. seat with man that drinks strong Ticker mot by a jugful.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-12
ELDERBERRY GAP.

Adam Cutler vissited Hardscrabble last week and bought A haff bushel If clans.
 Hans Dorflinger while dressing a steer had the knife to slip and cut two fingers. Hans was awful surprised but took 1t good natured being as the fingers was on a nuther felier's hand who was helpin him.
 Rebeeca Spriggins has had to let out the seams in her Sunday dress she's git tin that stout. Nine years makes quite a differents in a persons stoutness or thinness, as you might say.
 Seth Dobbins, who has shaved hisseif all winter and put cts. in china apple bank each time. broke the bank tother day and found S113. Seth says he must of cheated hisself outen cts. some time or other
 Snide Emmons had a fare-up with Mil iy Hobbs Wednesday night or acct of Hank Skinner askin her to go to a party with him. snide didn't find 1t out until the next night after she went.
 Ligs Simmons druv to the O. seat last Tuesday and bought pr, of whot he calls pegtop pants. He looks like bottle bug in them.
 Andrew White while maSin some hot ginger tea for his cold yesterday had the kettle to slip on him and spill some boil ing waiter on his feet. Only for his cow hides he migh' have been burned to deth
 SIC sEMPER TRYANN.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-12
Personals

Slime Peters had occashion to look into one of his bee hives the other day. and to his turrible disgust he found that all his bees was froze dead. Slime sed he didn't dream 1t was sich 6 cold winter we had went through
 Hen weathersby. prop. of our general store. has receeved a stock of ladies' stockings wich he ordered for last fall and sold two pr. right of to Phoebe HiI- derbrand who brought them back the next day. Phoebe sed they looked long enuff, but when she put them on it made them too short for her.
 Miss Jane McCrsckin is havin a new dress cut out by her mother. Unless 1t fits Jane better than the last one her mother made for her. we feel sorry for Jane. for that last dress caused a good cal of talk around town.
 Mrs Cy Hoskins went to the co seat last week and bought a bari of flour and a big box of groceries and the next day Cy went into Hen Weathersby's and paid Hen the bal. of whot he owed him. Cy sed he saved that much on his goods by gettin them in a lump. Hen says he is glad to get his money, but that aint no way to paternise home trade.
 Mrs. Martha Tucker Is now able to get out and talk with the nabers after being housed in all winter with a bunyan on her right foot. She cut hole in her shoe so her toe joint could stick out and now enjoys every steps she takes.
 The Bingville church needs painting awful bad. The Deacons talked some of painting it last fall. but somehow or oth- CT they didn't get around to 1t.
 Israel Goodwin. more familiar knowd as "Iz." caught his hand in a glass jar at the store satterday night while tryin to Ash out twisted peppermint stick and had to smash same before he got 1t out.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-12
TAs Leading Paper of the countyi
srisht-Brsezy--BellicOse-B -BustIins

to do and we are glad of it. | those of our citizens who have nothing this? This would furnish work for Why don't the Board of Trade see to fackshuring enterprises to come in here. 1t. Whot we now need is a few manu- and growing as town We are glad of last yeer, shows that we are prosperin face of a poorer business outlook than respectful. citizens has begun, in the This building enterprise wich our most boom wich Bingville has ahead of it.
 All these things show plainly the as our time was limited.
 ing on wich we did not Tern of being There is doubtless other buildings go-
 Two bee-butts by Amzi Gookins. cali. (Adv.)
 Work done on short rotise. Give him Hepburn, our artistick blacksmith. Wagons, drag sleds, etc. by Bill ing private boxes for their mail matter. for the accommodation of them desir- Eph Higgins, our popular postmaster,
 Several new boxes in the P. o. by Smalley.
 Fourteen rod of stone fence by Gid Weathersby, prop. of our general store. several bales of breakfast food, by Hen
 Two new shelves, to make room for Hoskins.
 New door put on his cellar by cy l Skinner
 Several chicken coops by Widow and J. of P.
 by Anne Hillyer, our talented legal light ] An addishion built onto his kitchen Bradbury.
 Front palings repaired by Deacon builder
 barn by Lem Brown, our carpenter and
 New grain bin in Doc Livermore's by Hez Andrews.
 Hen house, g, if boards hold out, J ing list, viz, towit:
 givin in this conneckshion the follow be built, and we take grate pleasure in pose of hndin out jest whot is going to the interests of the Bugle for the pur- house to house canvas tother day in compleshicn without delay We made will be pushed rapidly forward lords and now the weather is gettin better ing in our midst wich has been laid out think else, is the large amount of build of this boom, perhaps more than enny- | OIlC that HIOWIH l is coming true
 it had time enuff Our prophetic words Co. seat) would grow and prosper if | (being as it is only IS miles from the ness to eivilisashion. as you nigh: cay to its natural advantages and its near ollus sed however that Bingville, owing are much pleased to note it. We have yeer of all yeers, but nevertheless we tribute this boom to. espeshially this country. We don't know whot to at with other populous eenters turnout the help this town take her place erlong will do more than ennythink else to will be far reaching in its effeck and that this is a presidential year, wich boom this spring. in spite of the facIlt dieate that Bingville will be on the
 There is menny indicashions wieh in-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-12
Locals

Miss Phoebe Hilderbrand. our talented dressmaker. has returned from a days visit to the County seat with large supply of patterns she bought at clos ing out sale at a little store that had been in business forty yeers. Ennyone whot wants a new Easter basque or poll onaise made must call at once. as she expeckts to be turribie bizzy.
 Heck Barclay has jest got rid of boil on his neck and now has anuther one comin. This Is the, fourth boil Heck has had since the first of the month. He says 1t is gettin to be turrible monotcnous with him.
 Dave White. our popular undertaken, has told the boys of the Bingville Horn Band that they could use his shop to pracktise in until business picks up this spring.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-12
Country Correspondence
FLINCHYILLE.


 Bill Hendricks wife of Zion Crossroads who has been vissitin Mrs. Ransom Tay- Tor. terminated her visit ruther sudden yesterday morning and has returned home for an indefinite stay.
 Jeremy Hooker druv to the Co. seat last week with a load of shook. He done several errunds for the nahers and come home with a purity good load.
 Miss Lucinda Watkins had the earache the other day erbout a. m, but is much better as we write this.
 Eben Williams who is workin over al Snake Bend spent Sunday at home.
 Miss Rose Snyder. the bell of Flinch. vile. attended a theatre show at the Co seat last week, and is now thinking some of going on the stage to sing and dance her way to fame and forchune. If she does. she will leave one sad heart be- hind, won't she, Hram7
 Your correspondent expeekts to get a new subscriber next week and has almost closed the dicker. The party wants sam pie copies for three mos. and we are hold ing out for two. LIBERTY.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-12
SNAKE CR|CK
 FLOODED! /!

As we go to press Snake Crick, wich passes through our midst Is on it's regu- lar spring rampage and Is rising at the rate of two inches a hour. It commenced last Wednesday to swell up following the thaw wich set in few days ago meltin the snow in the mountings and has grad ually increased in volume until the criclE is running over in some places. If them of you don't get the Bugle next week or the week after you will know that our printing oflce is warshed offen the map and that like as not we have got wet to the skin sailing around on a barn door and died of tiephoyd fever or some- think similar
 Erbout hour ago Abe Whittacre called at the Bugie offise to tell us that flame Wilson who lives right on the criek moved out this morning owing to the fackt that his wife objeckted to wadin around in water two it. deep in order to do her house work and dust of the furniture. flame intended to move out ennyhow erbout May 1st. but being as the waiter has rig so rapidly he mooved sooner. Hame's household goods and per sonnei chatteis. as you might say, is now on top of Teck's Hill where Hame thinks they will be safe for few days at least.
 Ranse Smiley, who also lives close to the crick Is now living in the seckoned story of his house. Ranse has boat and says he is going to stick to his house as long as there Is enny of it in sight above waiter. All his hens and a pig Is in one room up stairs and Ranse got enuff eggs for breakfast this morn ing to pay for the trouble of carting them up there.
 Some of our most respectful citizens have packed up their goods and are reddy to move If the waiter comes up much higher.
 LATER-Cy Hoskins was jest in and he says he thinks the flood Is subsiding, but as precaushionary move he has ordered the Snake Bend saw mill to start up full force to use up as much surplus waiter as possible. and thinks Bingville will exscape with the loss of only one hen house and several old chickhen coops.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-12
School Closed Thursday

The short wood in the BingvilIe school house shed is being used by some low down theef that's too blamed lazy to take the long sticks and saw them. and Jed Peters. our intelhtent school teacher. had to close school last Thprsday on that acct. Jed and some of the scholars then sawed enuff to last the bal. of the week and piled 1t up in the school room under lock and key Hank Dewberry heerd er- bout it down to the store and told the selectmen that he had erbout chords of wood that he had sawed up in his spare time. this winter. that he would sell cheep. and the seleetmen bought three cords offen him so that the school can keep open until vacsshion-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-12
Lank Spilled fl

Mrs JeFushy Perkins left q mountain of coffee jelly and cream on our desk last week and receeved our thanks. We was purty bizzy at the time and didn't think snnythink more erbout it until Lank Jones asst us whot in tarnashion he had sot on. We looked up, and to our horror and disgust there was our jelly and cream plastered all over the seat of his pants with the sawser bruk in erbout r pieces and still elinging to him. We invited Lank to clear out before we lost our temper and the last we see of him he was scrapin hisself on the palings of cy Hoskins' fence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-12
Bud in Trouble Again

Bud Hinckley. who aint quite right in his head. while playing hide and look tother day, got into -four bari and couldn't get out until his mother chopped the hoops offen it. Bud he was awful skeard at first but when he got out he jest erbout lafted hisself to deth until Mrs. Hinckley got mad and whaled him for makin sich fool of hisseif.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-11
How to Wash Veils.

If your white veil is very much sofl-
 ed 1t will not be difficult matter to bring 1t back to its original newness.
 Make strong father of white soap and simmer the veil in 1t for about a quarter of an hour. Rinse 1t in cold water carefully with a little liquid bluing. You can also add perfume to this water. Pass the veil through a thin gum arabic water, or water in which rise has been boiled, and clear 1t by shaking. Pin evenly on a linen cloth. When dry. lay between a piece of thin muslin and iron on wrong side. TO wash your black veil pass 1t through hot water In which a small quantity of OK gall has been mixed, together with some perfume. Squeeze but do not rub it. Rinse in cold water. putting bluing in the last rinse. Stiff en by dipping in very thin glue water made by pouring water on glue. Squeeze and shake out and dry and iron on the wrong side, the same aa the white we'll. ''-.~-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-11
How to Clean a Sweater.

If you wish to wash sweater make a suds of warm water. white soap and borax. Move the sweater up and down in the water until clean; then rinse in warm water, adding little borax. In regard to drying, always tie the article (all in a bunch) fin towel or cloth. knotting the four corners: then pin 1t to a line out of doors, where the wind will blow through 1t. The towel should be opened from time to time and the article shaken, then replaced. When fairly dry the process may be con- pleted in the house by laying, still in a heap, over the register or any place where it can get thoroughly dry. Pull into shape during the drying. and the garment will be found soft, fluffy and very little shrunken.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-11
WHEN SHOES PINCH.
How to Prevent the Trouble end In.
 sure Comfort.

How to Prevent the Trouble end ln.
 sure Comfort.
 There are few people who do not know some time in the course of the year where the shoe pincfRs, and it is hardly too much to say that fin nearly every case this is preventable and is produced by ignorance. Bathing the feet daily, cutting the nails and going now and then to the chiropodist pre- vent many ills, but there is more to be done in order to promote the good ap- pearancs of the feet and their abso- lute comfort. Special foot ills from which people suffer are corns, bunions and ingrowing nails. It Is necessary to be very careful in the selection of stockings, as also in boots and shoes. It is no economy to have only one pair of shoes or boots in constant wear. Three is far more beneficial. It is not good for the feet to keep to one pair, and three pairs will last much longer worn in change than one pair after the other.
 During the day many people go through various phases with their feet. They are often slightly swollen in the morning; then loose shoe should be worn, the size being sufficiently ample to allow the feet to spread and have perfect ease, the heels being not above the moderate height. On going out 1t is advantageous to change both shoes and stockings. The feet perspire a good deal, and fresh stocking Is healthy and cleanly. It is best to uss cold water for the feet in cold weather and warm water in hot weather, for the cold water hardens the feet and especially in towns prevents the pave ments affecting them and wards off chills. A little spirit in the water to ! bathe the feet rests and strengthens them, and little borax and a little ammonia in the water are very benef- cial. Those who have to stand about all day should change their shoes in 1 the middle of the day and before din- ner because this both cools and airs the feet. The leather dries and gets ! aired and well .cleansed too. Every pore of the feet and ankles is exhaling what the leather absorbs, so that 1t Is neither cleanly nor hygienic to keep i too long to the same boots and shoes, and the leather, which is thus allowed | to air and dry, lasts much longer. The reason why patent leather shoes are So i unhealthy and often painful in the wearing is that they cannot be yenti' lated, so that the feet perspire more The ankles are very sensitive; hence in cold weather high boots or gaiters should be worn. If the feet are too dry and hard, the skin beneath thickening cream rubbed fin at night Is specially beneficial. Those that perspire unduly should be treated by damping the stockings with little alcohol and ap plying a little powder, such as boracic or talcum. Half of the foot trouble: originate in improper footgear-toc high heeled shoes, shoes and boots that are too shorthand many an undue in crease of the great toe joint Is due tt wearing shoes too loose over the in step, thereby allowing the feet tc spread. Boots and shoes to fit should follow the actual outline of the feet whether short or long, broad or mar I r0w ....sF ..s.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-11
Strictly Fresh Eaas.

There are summer resorts. remote from any agricultural communities, where fresh farm products are even harder to obtain than in the city. It was at such a place that the new boarder, who had eaten four or five breakfasts there, began to wonder why the eggs were invariably served fried.
 "See here" he inquired one morning of the genial colored man who waited upon him, ''why do you always fry eggs hereT Don't you ever boil themT'
 "oh, oh. yes. sah!" responded the waiter pleasantly. "of co'se yo' kin have 'em boiled if yo' wants 'em, but yo' know. sah. 70 takes de riskg'- New York Times.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-11
CARE OF PETS. ~gsj
How te Keep Household Pets Well by
 Proper Attention.

There is no time in the year when animals need so much care as in the summer. Then they must not only be kept clean. but must be fed and water ed properly, for on this depends their health.
 Dogs should be given little or no meat during the warm weather, and water should be kept where they can get 1t at any time. Dog biscuits are the best form of food for them. Milk and oatmeal are also good. A bone with very little meat on 1t may be given for them to chew, but 1t is better to let the biscuits take its place. Dogs should be washed at least once a week to keep them in good condition. A soap containing tar Is best for the pur- pose.
 Cats should be fed mainly on milk and mush, and, strange to say, they are very fond of some vegetables. Corn on the cob does not hurt them, and great many like 1t very much. There have even been cats that liked canta- loupe. These animals also should have water where they may get it, and some cats may be washed with good results to the cat-although it is a very dan gerous operation for the unfortunate person who is detailed to perform the feat. Some cool place should be pro vided for them to sleep, but the cellar is not always good, for 1t is too damp.
 Dogs should not be allowed to sleep in the house, particularly in summer. The stable is the best place, or, lack ing that, the dog kennel would be all right.
 Canaries should be provided with daily bath. Drinking water should be kept in their cages at all times. Let tuce leaves, celery tops and chickweed should be provided for them about twice week, and bit of red pepper will do them no harm. Cuttlefish, of course, is always kept in the cage, which should be lined with gravel. Hemp seed is very fattening and should not be given to the birds very often. They should be fed on bird seed and rape seed, with lump of sugar as an occasional treat.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-11
YOUR OWN FACE.
Do You Think You Would Recognize
 1t on Another Psrson7


 'How strange if is." said the philoso- pher, that the person for whom you care most on earth, the one you see oftenest and who receives your most constant attention is the one whose countenance is least familiar to you" "Who is thatT' asked the visitor.
 Yourself" said the philosopher. "It Is fact that if people could be dupli- cated and could meet themselves in the street very few would recognize them selves. We look at ourselves many times during the 385 days Of the year. We say our eyes are blue or whatever color they may be. our hair brown, our chin peaked, our forehead high. We know every lineament of our face from constant study and attention, yet when we turn away from the mirror we can not conjure up picture of ourselves. We know just how our friends and even acQuaintances look. In fancy we can see them sittirz so or standing so and their varying expression under diff ferent circumstances is clear to us, V
 even though we have not seen them for years. But when it comes to our selves we cannot even fill in the out line of the picture. We may laugh. we may cry, we may frown, but we do not know how we look while we are doing it. Photographs do not help us. We have never seen ourselves in the flesh. Mirrors and pictures are poor aids when we sit down and try to see ourselves with the minds eye. That Is why people are so deeply interested in anybody who is said to resemble them. Just say to man, I know somebody who looks for all the world like you and he will never rest until he sees that person. Then If the like ness is really true he will own that up to that time he had no conception of how he really looked"
 The visitor smiled wanly. T wish you wouldn't talk like that" she said. Tt makes me feel so uncanny. am almost afraid of myself"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-11
WHEN FIRE BREAKS OUT.
Keep Cool and Remember and Follow
 These instructions.

In case of fire, if the burning articles are at once splashed and sprayed with a solution of salt and nitrate of ammonia an incombustibie coating Is formed. This is a prepara- ton which can be made at home at trifing cost and should be kept on hand. Dissolve twenty pounds of com mon salt and ten pounds of nitrate of ammonia fin seven gallons of water. Pour this into quart bottles of thin glass and fire grenades are at hand ready for use. These bottles must be tightly corked and sealed to prevent evaporation, and in case of fire they must be thrown near the flames, so as to break and llberate the gas con- tained. At least two dozen of these bottles should be ready for an emer- gency.
 In this connection it Is well to re- member that water on burning oil scat ters the flames, but that flour will ex- tinguish 1t. Salt thrown upon a fire if the chimney is burning will help to deaden the blaze. If . fire once gets under headway and prompt exit be- comes a necessity, a silk handkerchief dipped in water and wrapped about the mouth and nostrlls will prevent suffocation from smoke; failing this, a piece of wet flannel will answer.
 Sho,iid smoke fill the room. recall your physics-remember that smoke goes first to the top of the room and last to the floor. Wrap a blanket or woolen garment about you, with the wet cloth over your face, drop on your hands and knees and crawl to the win dow. Bear In mind that there Is no more danger in getting down from q three story window than from the first floor If you keep a firm hold of the rope or ladder. Do not slide, but go hand over hand.-New York Tribune,