The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-04-29

|sgs FolE Are Preparing To Re
neive, and Protect President Of
United States.

nExxRL.Y, Mass.. April 29.-Now
That g1(b become the summer capital
Of nc United States. guess folks will
4 Gctsover calling Beverly dead town.
Everybody is sure stirred up about IL
around here
y o. Hill knew what he was about
when he picked out this town TO live
Ia He had all the places In the coun-
try 20 pick from. What he wanted
WA nice. quiet. refined place where
[foIkB l11ow each other and were neigh
+bor1y. and -where "a man can sleep
{Quiet -nightss and get three square
meals. and have cool breeze from
the. ocean.
Course IL will be a lot OF respon-
oibility for the town, receiving dipio
mats and kings and senators and the
like. but folks around here Gale late
Beverly will be equal to II. all right.
Probably the heaviest job is Al Good
hue's. He was talking shout IL the
other night over at Woodbury's store
n figger that the greatest danger
n from anarchists and office-seek-
ers.y Al says. Il been reading up
about 'em in the cyclopedia over at
the Carnegie library nights. The anar-
chists are little and lean and dark
completed, and they sneak through
the alleys and carry bombs and knives.
Il think I'll ask the town meetin
TO put an extra man on the force. Oh
Bill has got TO feel safe. day and
night. you know. Pribably I'll go
70 work at noon, and work through
till midnight. Don't suppose the presi-
dent will get up very early mornings.
anyway. and by midnight all the ex-
element will be over and a new man
can work on the job all right"
And IL any office-seekers go 10
botherin' the president, we'll guess
I can take care of iem.. Al says. You
see, Al Is q great big fellow-weighs
pret' nigh as much as oil Bill himself,
and 10 pretty quick On his feet.
Mother fellow that's going 10 have
his troubles when Bill comes is Jim
Brown. the mail carrier. Jim figgers
out that he'll have TO get a big wagon
OF some kind to carry the mail in.
With all them reports and messages
10 congress. and letters from the for
elm iegacies. and seed shipments to
O. X. and all that. Jimll have his
hands FULL
Frank Norwood--he's the postmas
ter here--was telling Jim the other
nieht that he'd write the postoftice
department at Washington to Gee II
they. can't hire extra clerks and car
riers and things. Frank and Jim are
both good men, but they're going TO be
swamped unless they get help.
They say. too that Bill Ferguson.
the fIre chief, Is going to have some
practice drills next week. Ring the
bell when there amt no FIRE, and see
how quick the volunteers can get the
hose cart out. Good thing. too.
One thing that Beverly is proud OF.
something that Oh Bill couldn't get in
but very few towns in the country. is
that he can have his own town his
torian.
Amt many historians in the coun-
try that have got II on Charley
woodbury.. He's the fellow that runs
the grocery and dry goods store, you
recollcct. Charley knows everything
that Unopened In this town clear back
to 1875. Beverly In one Of the oldest
towns In New England, and Charley's
ancestors built one of the first houses
here. Charley Is a member OF the his
toricaI society, and has made speeches
before them several times, telling
about elA things that other historians
didn't know.
Be pretty nice for the president.
when he don't feel like playing golf
and -itS too hot TO do anything but
Just sit around on the porch. to have
Charley Woodbury. come over and tell
him all about-th history OF the town.