The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-06-08
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Here IN SlIARINS.
MILLIONS! OF FOSTERING INSECTS.
COME in 3FAlF2lAo Mt LATE LAST
I. AFTERNo DON -s BUTCHER AND
REsTR gFsAt ER DISCUSS STU.
ALTON.

Here's an unusual story and 1t Is
believed That it rs true; Last evening,
fof Father lht day afternoon the
,fiIass for tie season 5ot 1911 arrived in
SIcairm6nk Where they all came from
Isl beyond the comp ension of mar,
but iit ii d fact that, there have been;
tew iliesi m CHS 10 yest terdays
and now ~ appears that the usual
summer swarm Is now Sin our midst
TIC writing of this story was
prompted by a local meat dealer and
a restaurant proprietor talking about
the coming OF the flies yesterday.
The man who conducts the eating
house said that up to yesterday he had
very little use for his screen door
which he put up more than a month
ago ana the carver Of beeves said the
same thing, but both admitted that
they certainly had use for such pro-
tectors now.
Where do you suppose so many
flies came from SO quickly? l thought
this was going to be a season without
the tormenting insects" said the SELL
er OF the meal tickets.
Blamed II / know" said the swinger
OF the cleayer,. as he brushed a fly
from his nose, "but nevertheless, they
are here and they will be with US un.
til the birds have flown South as the
leaves begin to fall, replied the poet
ical butcher.
II be blamed II this fly-movement
this season has got me to guessin'. ;. {"
said the restalranter "for we have
had unusually warm weather lur the
past six weeks and flies were about
as scarce in my place and all over
FSa!rmont as eggs were when all Of
them were in cold storage; but the pc
culiar part OF the situation Is this:
that they came all Ola sudden, some,
thin like when the Almighty sent the
fly-curse on, Pharaoh in Egypt. don't
suppose there was a fly in that part
Of the country maybe not In the
whole world the Lord said
something like this: Let there be
flies, and there we're flies They must
have come as quickly there as they
did here yesterday afternoon.
II bet that made old Pharaoh hop
pin mad when the big swarm Of pes.
tering insects got on Is bear legs and
In his grub. Made him about as an-
CRY as l got last evening when seen
that the flies had suddenly arrived z
said the slicer Of the porter house.
"Well,r concluded the runner Of the
biscuit foundry, "thei only thing we
can do and the rest OF the good peo-
pie Of Fairmont is tolls to--do the
best we cam as he struck at large
black fly with sufficient force to
knock down one Of the butchers
steers. s
This is no joke, the flies have ar.
rived In Fairmont, and they came, as
stated, very snadeniy last evening
Now the question afises where have
they been all this warm season, and
why should they come so quickly ana
In such swarms? It has often been
remarked during the past few weeks
that there were exceedingly few flies
in this city for this season, and the
people were congratulating them
selves that the pestering insects were
not with Us. Some attributed the rea
son that the thorough" cleanup week
a short time ago was the. cause. The
season Is not known by any one that
.Ihas risen and "spake' as vet, but II
lis a known fact that they are here In
5Eiist as large q number as in the sum
liners gone by, ss.5
Eeres ssis 4 llIis.jiTn III 5arfiv here