The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-04
ABi94th
The Bsthday Of American lndspsn-
dents Was Celebrated With Much
Ausplshlousnsss In Our Midst
To Hear How Loud tho Eagle
Scrsechsd Llssen to the FoIIsrlng
Acct. Of tho Days DoIns:

The glorious Forth was celebrated in
Bingville in a fitting manner yesterday
and even at this hour as we 50 to press
the echo of what took place in our midst
has scarcely died away. In other words
Bingville done herself proud and the
celebrashion of the day will go down in
local history as one of the most ospish-
ious occasions which has ever took
place in this neck of the woods
The day was ushered in by Snide
Petersby s. Glenn Wilkins two of our
most patriotick citizens. Snide and
Glen thort they ort to do something to
start in the day right so Friday night
after all the inhabitants had went to bed
they TUX some drills and a hammer
and perceeded to the big stone mounting
block in front of Hen Weathersby's
store and drilled a hole about sixteen
inches deep and inch in diameter down
into the stone 1t was turrible hard
work and when they was through it was
nearly midnight Then they filled the
hole with blasting powder, put in fuse
and rammed it down tight and made It
already to set off at daybreak as kind
of saloot as you might say. Then they
went home for few hours sleep but
was back about day break.
Snide he fetched a match to the fuse
and then they both run up Main st., and
the powder went off with SIGH turrible
explode that it was herd all over Bing-
vile. The houses in the immejit vicin-
itty was shook and winders ratified.
Snide and Glenn come back to see the
effeckts of the blast and when they seen
that pieces of rock had broke five lights
outen Hen Weathersbys store they star
ted to run off home and wasn't going to
say anything about what they had did
lords the 4th, but Hen Weathersby who
was awoke by the noise as was every
buddy else in Bingville looked out his
winder and seen them running off and
recognized them, and Hen says he will
bring suit aginst them for mutilating
his winders no odds how patriotick they
be. Hen says patriotism Is all right, but
too much of anything is a plenty.
Prompt at 10 a. m. the Bingville horn
band formed in line at the Town Hall
and marched up and down Main st. dis
pensing loud musick and follered by a
long line of our most respected citi-
zens
At 2 p. m. there was a mass meeting
al the tOWn NAH WHeIc JcQ refers our
intelligent school teacher was advertised
to deliver 4th of July orashion, but it
was found that the crowd of Bingville
folks and them as had come into town
from the surrounding country was too
big for the Town Hall to accommodate
so Jed he suggested that being as it was
nice day the mass mtg. be held in the
publick Square where everybody could
hear and this was did.
Jed he stood on a table which was
perched on top OF some boxes so that
everybody could see and hear him and
he made turrible good speech There
was only one drawback to it-when Jed
had reached the climax of his speech
where he was stirring the hearts of his
hearers with patriotism by his fiery elo-
quence he swung his arms above his
head and throwed the table outen bal
ance and the table and boxes come down
with a crash with Jed on top of them.
Jed was picked up by willing hands con-
siderables stunned and his head was
bumped so that he said he guessed he
couldn't go on with his speech so he
went home in disgust to battle his head