The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-01
GRASSHUPPBRS!.
Awful visitashlon of These PuslIani- nous Iassekts on BingviIIs GEasshoppsrs Is Thicker Than Hops in Our Midst as Wa Go to Press What Bs Ws Going to Do About IL?

As fur back as the oldest inhabitant of Bingville can recolleckt and prob ably further back Han that probably there has never been sich a scourge of grasshoppers in our midst as at the present writing, and if things go on as they have for the past week the goshrammed grasshoppers in Bingville and vicinity will eat us outen house and home and this naberhood won't be nothink but a desert waste devoid of |vegetashion and most everything else.
 Where all these grasshoppers come from is a mystery, but everybody hopes that they will soon go wherever they come from and remain there forever. Grasshoppers has been so plenty in our midst that as fur as most folks is con- cerned they don't care whether they ever see a grasshopper again as long as they live. Now, if grasshoppers was any good for anything that any body could think of it would be differ enA but what good is a grasshopper in this world except to use to bait a fish hook with, perhapsr No good, we an swer. What was grasshoppers created for! Nobody knows. It is said that all critters was created for some good use, but if sombuddy will kindly rise up and state what good a muskeeter is or a bedbug or the brown-tail moth or the typhoid fever, we would be very much obliged. indeed.
 These grasshoppers struck Bingville about two weeks ago, and sinst that time they have multiplied theirselves many fold until things has come to sich a pass that a person cant scairsely step outen their back door without stepping on grasshoppers. Some places the ground is covered with them The trees and shrubs has mostly been skinned of leaves by them and they are a plaguey nuisance, dog-gone 'eml
 In some instances they have went and got into houses and have chewed up clothing and gnawed the varnisf offen furnishure, and next thing they will be eatin the paper offen the walls. A grasshopper will eat anything it gifts its teeth on, no matter what it be. Sim Hooker says his stable is full of 'ern and that they have neari" -:ddled his harness to pieces eatin of 1t. It ain't no use to try to kill 'em by exterminatin clns DcCuL tHc Horc you XIII t1c more Igrasshoppers there seems to be, and, as Dad Henderson says, the only way we cEn ever hope to redooce their numbers is to leave 'em alone.
 Last Sunday Rev. Saml Moore, our beloved pastor of the Bingville church, preached sermon on the "Grasshopper Scourge." Hank Dewberry, who don't never go to church except on speshial occashions and who wasn't there last Sabbath, when he heard what Rev. Moore had preached about, said he cal kilated the parson must be purty hard up for a subjeckt when he would preach about grasshoppers.
 Rev. Moore he said that the grass hoppers which have been in our midst is divine visitashion because of our
 sins. He said that it ort to be a warn ing to Us that we must live nobuller and better lives or else Bingville is liable to be wiped out like Sodof1 & Camniorrah. Rev. Moore preached that in Bible times locusts and frogs and various other pests was sent on the people to make them behave theirselves and live more according to the dick tates of their conshiences, and he cal ldlates that's what we have SO man, grasshoppers ih our midst at the pres. ent time for.