The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-11
While they was wondering what it

While they was wondering what it
might be the noise crowd louder and
louder. 1t sounded jest like one FIRE
cracker after another goin off and
woked UP all the rest of the fellers on
the PLACER. All to onct Anne jumpt to
his feet as pale as deth and pointin his
finger at the sky hollers, What in time
is tibet, a bird or the d-l?" Every
buddy looked lords where Anne pointed,
and there away up in the air above
Bingville, but approachin at turrible
speed was a somethink that looked like
bird as big as house swoopin right
down on the town, All the time the
turrible noise become louder.
CONSERVATION rained soopremei
Hen rushed into the store and hid
under the counter expeckting every next
minnit to be his last. Alb Skinner al
most tainted away he was that scairt.
Hank Dewberry tried to pray, but Hank
amt had much pracktise in this line
and the words stuck in his throat Anne
he started for home as fast as he could
run, while Seth Dewberry tore off his
constubble badge and throwd it away
along with his pistol, calkilatin he would
have no more use for same, and jined
Hank IN prayer.
Things WAS jest as bad everywhere
else in Bingville. Them as lived clost
to Rev. Saml Moore, our behaved
pastor of the Bingville church, rushed
into his house pell-fnell and fell on
their knees and desired him to pray
for them. Old Dad Henderson, who is
deaf as a post and can't hear thunder
set on his front PLAYER reading a news
paper and was probably the only person
in Bingville who diddent know nothing
about the commoshion, so he jest set
there in his ignorunts and thus escaped
the skeer of his life.
Bill Hepburn, our artistick black
smith, was working at his forge at the
time and had stopped to take a drink
of ticker. Jest as he was about to put
the jug to his lips he heerd the noise
and walked to the door with the jug
still IN his hand, and when he seen that
turrible thing in the air Bill dasht the
jug to earth and busted it while nearly
half gal of good ticker run to waste,
and Bill TUX a sollum oath that he
wouldn't drink another drop as long as
he lived.
By this time the apparishion was
right over the publick square and about
500 feet in the air we calkilate. It did
dent stop but went right on In a
straight line and in a few minnits dis
appeared to the south lords the co. seat
Some of our most respeclcted citi-
Zens & citizenesses was so Frustrated
with skeer that they had to go to bed
and ever sinst the occurrence Bingville
has been a changed town becuz there
is 10 telling when the thing viii come
back. Rev. Moore says he calkilates it
was a token sent by Providence to warn
the folks of Bingville agin their sins,
and that In his opinion it was a good
thing, being as sinst then he has noticed
that the morals of Bingville is better
than he ever knowd EN- and that folks
hereabouts Is living better & nobuller
lives.
LATER TNFORMASHTON-Jest as
we go to press Slime Goolins has re-
turned from the co. seat with the in
formashion that what passed over our
midst last Tuesday p. m. was a airship
with a man in 1t and that the airship
come to earth at the CO. seat and the
man in it filed up his airship tank with
some gasolene there and then perceeded
on to the City, bat which City we did
not learn. Sinst this informashfon ar
rived BingviI1e has resoomed the even
teuner of her way. Everybuddy has
stopped prayin and Bill Hepburn says
he was q fool to wasted all that good
ticker in SIGH haste, being as he has
been repenting at leisure ever sinst- Seth
Dewberry, our Eon-hearted town con-
stubbie, says the next airship he sees
he'll take a crack at with his pistol and
see if he can't break wing or some
think