The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-03

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Pillbeck, which took place unexpect-
edly last Thursday, Betzville lost one
of hcr most sober-minded female citi-
zens, and by order of the city council
a Grape streamer was tied to the Pill.
beck box in the Betzville post Office.
As there has been very little doing in
black goods in Betzville lately the
Bankrupt Store next the post Office
supplied the Grape at half-price. The
Bankrupt Store is one of Betzville's
Oldest and most enterprising mercan.
tile concerns, and is conducting
mourning sale all this week, in mem
ory of Grandma Pillbeck, who used to
trade there. Anyone expecting to
mourn in the near future should take
advantage of this sale.
When interviewed as to the cause
of Grandma Pillbeck's sudden demise,
Orlando Pillbeck. her son, informed
our reporter that she was simply worn
to q frazzle. As he remarks in the
graceful obituary poem, published on
another page, right under Uncle Ash
dod Clute's hog and cattle sale adver-
tisement:
''Grandma Pillbeck has gone and went
Where the angels brightly dazzle: =
And wored her to a frazzle."
In this connection we wish to re-
mark that Ephron Quat, proprietor of
the Bet1ville Furniture Emporium,
says that II Orlando had opened up
little and had bought grandma one of
the patent spring beds he is now
showing, she would have lasted much
longer. these beds being bouncy. and
more resilient than the slat bed on
which Grandma Pillbeck frazzled away
to eternity.
1t seems that some years ago Grand
ma Ptllbeck read in a paper that over.
sleeping In the morning could be cas-
lily avoided, and as she was a regular
oversleeper, she took the article to
heart. It said that 1t was only nec-
essary to get clock, and before re-
firing, set the hands to point to the
desired rising time. and stare at them
long and we'll, and when the hands
reached that position In the morning
the sleeper would unfailingly awaken.
SO Grandma Pillbeck got tin clock
for a. cents and tried it. She set the
hands at six o'clock. and stared at
them for ten minutes, and then set
the clock 1T the proper time and went
to bed, and, sure enough, at exactly
six o'clock the next morning she
awakened. She was delighted, and
did it again the neIt night, and the
next morning she again awakened at
six o'clock precisely. After that she
kept it up regularly. and 1t never
failed. For about three years she
gazed at six o'clock every night, and
awakened at six o'clock every morn
ing, and by that time she had &C.
quired the habit of rising whenever
the hands Of the clock pointed to six
She found that she had looked at the
clock 80 eften that it was no longer
necessary to look at It before going to
bed-whenever the hands pointed to
six she had to jump out Of bed.
About five weeks ago, while Grand
ma Pillbeck was sleeping peacefully
in the middle Of the night, she sud-
denly jumped out of bed as ii i'm
pelled by an irresistible impulse, or,
as she expressed It, as If some one
had kicked me out" and when she
lighted her lamp she saw that the
clock was pointing to six o'clock.
Something had gone wrong with the
works of the tin clock, as things are
apt to go wrong with the inwards of
those S4.cent clocks, and the clock
was running too fast, but as long as
she was up she thought she might as
we'll stay up, 50 she did. But in three
hours the hands of the clock had run
around to six again, and Grandma
Pillbeck felt herself irresistably I'm
PEELED to get into bed again, or, as
she expressed 1t, las If some one had
kicked me into bed
AS she lay there, thinking what
would be the best thing to do, she fell
into a doze, and she must have slept
three hours, for, the first thing she