The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-03
WHEN IT COMES TO TAKING CARE
OF TAFT BEVERL Y'LL BE THERE
GUESS PEOPLE WILL QUIT
CALLING IT A DEAD TOWN
NoW-THE CONSTABLE, THE
PQSTMAN, THE VOLUNTEER
FlAEMEN AND THE VILLAGE
HISTORIAN ALL READY.

EGo MAN. TIE vOION EEh
Fh~EMEN AND THE VILLAGE
HISTORIAN ALL READY.
Special Corrsspoadcncs to The Press
BEVERLY, Mass, May 3.-Now
that it's become the summer CAPT.
tai of the United States, guess
folks will get over calling Beverly
a dead town. Everybody is sure
stirred up about it around here.
or Bill knew what he was about
when he picked out this town to
live in. He had all the places in
the country to pick from. What he
wanted was nice, quiet, refined
place where folks knew each other
and We're neighborly, and where a
man can sleep nights and get three
square meals, and have cool
breeze from the ocean to blow
across his bed in the morning.
Course he will be lot of respon-
sibility for the town, receiving
diplomats and kings and senators
and the like, but folks around here
calc'late Beverly will be equal to 1t,
all right. Probably the heaviest job
is AL Goodhues. He was talking
about it the other night over at
,Woodbury's store.
81 figger that the greatest dan
ger is from anarchists and Office
seekers" AL says. Il been reading
up about 'em in the cyclopedia over
at the Carnegie library nights. The
anarchists are little and lean and
dark complicated, and they sneak
through the alleys and carry bombs
/ and knives.
81 think I'll ask the town meetin'
\ato put an extra man on the force.
OF Bill has got to feel safe, day and
night, you know. Probably I'll go
to work at noon, and work through
till midnight. Don't suppose the
president will get up very early
mornings, anyway, and by midnight
all the excitement will be over and
new man can work the job all
right"
And If any Office seekers go to
botherin' the president, well guess
] can take care of EN-" AL says.
You see. AL is Il great big fellow
weighs pref nigh as much as OF
Bill himself, and is pretty quick on
his feet.
Mother fellow that's going to
have his troubles when Bill comes
is Jim Brown, the mail carrier. Jim
figgers out that he's have to get a
big wagon of some kind to carry
the mail in. With all them reports
and messages to congress, and let
tiers from the foreign fegacies, and
sheed shipments to o. k. and all
that, Jim1l have his hands full.
Frank Norwood-he's the post
master here-was telling Jim the
other night that he'd write the post
Office department at Washington to
see if they can't hire extra clerks
and carriers 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 oil Bill couldn't
get in but very few towns in the
country, is that he can have his
own town historian.
Amt many historians in the
country that have got 1t on Charley
Woodbury.. He's the fellow that
runs the grocery and dry goods
store, you recollect. Charley knows
everything that happened in this
town clear back to 1926. Beverly Is
one of the oldest towns In New
England, and Charleys ancestors
built one of the first houses here.
Charley is member of the his
torical society, and has made
speeches before them several
times, telling about old things that
other historians didn't know.
BE pretty nice for the president,
when he don't feel like playing
golf, and it's too hot to do anything
but just sit around on the porch,
to have Charley Woodbury. come
over and tell him all about the his
tory of the town.
I'm Tho latest