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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
EDDYTORIUL

We r agoing to write a breef
eddytoriu1 this wk. on the subjeckt
of what Good is a Muskeeter ?"
The anser to this q%uestshion is, eft
amt no goodt"
What in tarnashion muskeeters
was eve made for is more than
our powerful eddytoriul brain can
comprehend. Why this pusilani-
nous inseckt was ever put on this
earth is beyond human understand
ing. Nobody has W ansered the
questshion as to "What Good Is a
Muskeeter ?" and we don't calki1ate
they ever will anser it.
Muskeeters amt never been so
thick in Bingvil1e within the recol-
1eckshion of the Oldest inhabitants
as they have been this season, and
as a result the pain and anguish
resulting from same is simply I'M
bearable and immense, as we might
say.
Most everybody in Bingville,
inclooding Our most respectable &
prominent citizens (becuz muskeet-
ers amt no respecters of persons
of either high or low degree) has
been bit up somethink awful. A
person cant set out on their front
piazzer in the evg. without being
pestered to deth by muskeeters IN
til they become disguised and git
up and go into the house and slam
the door behind them and go to
bed and shet down tite all the win
ders in their bedroom and then
sleep with the bedclothes over their
heads no matter how hot it is,
ruther than to be ct alive by these
pestiferous pests.
If we could think of annythink
meaner to say about muskeeters
than we have said we would say it
with great cheer and we believe we
voice the sentiment of the very best
element of the community when
we say that everybuddy will be
turrible glad and rejoiced when
the muskeeter season passes.
Then, and not until then, kin we
have peace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

out just as they preferred. It was
about dusk when Hi entered the P. o.
for his mail, and being as he can't see
very well anyhow. and being also tired,
he set down on the box to rest, and
when he got up the fly paper stuck to
him and Hi went on down to Hen
Weathersby's store without knowing
that it was fast to him, and when the
boys in the store saw it they hollered
and yelled and LATED and when Hi
found out he grabbed the sheet of fly
paper and pulled it off, and then it
stuck to his hands and he would pull it
off of one hand with the other hand
and it would stick to the other hand
and then he would pull it off with the
other hand and it would stick to the
hand he pulled it off with, and Hi got
mad and swore because he couldn't
seem to get rid of the fly paper, and so
he stepped on it with one foot and
pulled it from his hands and then it
stuck to the sole of his boot and he
then went outside of the store and got
it off on a foot scraper at last. P. M.
Higgins says Hi will have to pay him
for that sheet of fly paper or he cannot
get his mail at the P. o. in the future.
Hi says he will walk to the Co. seat
after his mail before he will pay for
the sheet of fly paper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
This is all this week. News are veEy
scarce. More a non. SCRIBBLER
Society

Hen Weathersby, prop. of our general
store, give a smoking party in his store
last Saturday night. Hen furnished the
tobacco and the others furnished their
own pipes. The affair was a great sue
cess, and it is our opinion that it ought
to draw trade to Hens store. The to-
bacco was some Hen had had on hands
for 20 or 30 years and was so musty
that he couldn't sell it, but it didn't
smoke bad.
Miss Sally Hoskins sent her regreti
to a party which was perpetrated By
Miss Amelia Tucker last Friday ev'g
Some says that Sally done this just ia
cut Amelia and some others says thai
Sally used some new kind of face paint
which she rubbed so much Of on her
face that she had to scrape some of il
off, and in doing so rubbed her face
most raw until it wasn't fit to be saw
in publick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
Marriages

Willie Pike and Miss Samantha John
son of Calamity Corners drove up to
the parsonage of our beloved pastor,
Rev. Samuel Moore, last Saturday and
asked to be married. Rev. Moore re-
fused to marry them at first on the
grounds that they was too young.
Willie offered Rev. Moore SIS to per-
form the operashion, however, and
promised that he would get the license
as soon as he was of legal age. In view
of this the parson reconsidered the
questshion and spliced them up good and
fast.
The Bugle extends congratulations
and hopes that as this happy young cou-
pie embarks on the turbulent sea of
m~atrimony that they may have smooth
sailing and a fine crop of children.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

the shoe on the horse wrong end to and
famed the horse so as it couldn't scarce
ly walk.
By Friday Bill had drunk up the CT
der, so on Saturday he lit out for the
Co. seat to get a jug of whiskey and he
was turrible ragged lookin and sick
when he left Bingville. He arrived back
in Bingville late Satterday night, how
ever, in good spirits, and Sunday morn
ing he come out of the house about 10
a.. m. just as people was IN their way to
church. Bill went to his blacksmith
shop and got a 12-pound sledge. Then
he went out into the street in front of
the shop and begin to pound on the
sidewalk with all his might. Deacon
Butterworth with his Bible under his
arm walked acrost the street to where
Bill was pounding and askt him what in
thunder he was ADDING.
"I'm killing snakes" says Bill. Look
at that big reptile, will you'll There it
is right under your feetPs
With that Bill struck at the snake
and come within a inch of smashing the
deacon's foot into a pulp. The deacon
went into the air with a yell and got
outen Bills way. 81 don't see no
snake" hollered the deacon, and then
he continued to church on the run. Yves
Woodruff next come along, and being
as Yves didn't know of Bills condition
Yves helped Bill tear up about a rod of
sidewalk to find the snakes which Bill
said was under it. Then along came
Seth Dewberry, our town constubble.
Seth told Bill to stop tearing up board
walks on Sunday morning and dishg-
gering the own or he would put him
under a rest. With that Bill grabbed
up the sledge and took after Seth and
chased him clean outen town. Seth said
afterwards he would have a rested Bill
except he was going so fast that he
couldn't seem to stop hisse1f. Bill then
went pack and throwed the sledge ham,
mer through the winder of his black
smith shop breaking five lights of glass.
Then he went into the house and got
into bed and went to sleep.
Later he got awful sick and got to ho1-
1erin and yellin, and Doc Livermore, our
horse dockter & human specialist, was
called in, and when he examined Bill he
pronounced him suferin. from delirium
trirnins.
AS we go to press Bill is still in bed.
His wife says he don't pea to see as
many snakes and elephants as he did a
few days ago., but is still KEEP awake a
good cal at nights by green spiders in
his bed. This only shows what a two
gal. jug of hard cider, follered by a lit
tie whiskey will do to a person.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
Locals

Gideon johnson paid this office a
visit last Tuesday and went to sleep on
a stool and fell over with his face in a
pan of paste which we had just made
fresh and which was still hot. Gid
woke up with a yell and run outen the
office and never stopt running until he
got home. He sent us back word by
his little boy, Sammie, that he had a
turrible time getting the paste outen his
whiskers and to stop his paper at once.
Mrs. Jerushy Perkins has our thanks
for a canned blueberry pie which she
left on our desk last Thursday. The
office cat had ct up the most of the pie
by the time we got back to the office,
but what was left was prime. Person
ally we are a great hand for BURBERRY
pie. So is our cat. We amt noticed
any of our subscribers leaving any
strawberry shortcake on our desk so far
this season. Why is this?
Jabez Crum was in Bingvi11e one day
last week. Jabe lives two miles west.
He says he notices a great many
changes in Bingville since he last visited
u midst seven years ago. We are
glad to hear this. Jabe is a man who
sticks purity close to home and tends to
his own business.
Eph Higgins, our accommodating
postmaster, had a letter to come into
the office with a speshia1 delivery stamp
on for Ranse Smiley, who lives three
miles west last Monday evg, and there
was nothing for Eph to do but shut up
the office and take that speshial delivery
letter and walk all the way u to
Ranse's and deliver it. Eph waited to
heal what was in the letter and it was
a notice from a man in the Co. seat for
Ranse to pay a bill he had been owing
there for several years, and this made
Ranse so mad that he ordered Eph to
git often his premises or he would kick
him off. Eph returned to Bingville
and weary. He a y he hates
the very sight of a speshial delivery let
ter now.
Me- Skinner is shingling some patches
the open places on the roof of his
barn. Mel intended to shingle the whole
roof this spring, but now he thinks he
can patch up the roof so as it will do
another year or SO. Let Us hope so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
SNAKE BEND

Seth Winslow, while repairing his
fences last week, came upon a black
snake which Seth say was seven feet
long if it was a inch. Seth started tor
the house, not stopping to kill the snake,
being as it was just about his dinner
time. !.
Miss Barbara johnson, the bell of
Snake Bend, appeared put last Sunday
in . new chintz dress which her mother
made I'D for her. 1t is a turrible nice
fit and looks awful becoming to Bar
bara.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22


DON'T BE A TIDEWAD II
Pay up your back subscription to the
Bug1e & thus fill a long-felt want on our
part. We Can't Run a First Class News
paper ON Hot Air and Cold Potatoze.
P. S.-If we are mot in leave the money with
our wife next door.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
Hiram Perkins
C~losepinneu
III.

BingviuA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
Country Correspondence
HOLLOW

Ben McAllister has a bealing in his
ear. Last year about this time Ben had
a bealing in his ear and a boil on his
neck. Ben is better off this yea than
he was last.
Jemima Hoff, while counting out eggs
to sell to the market man one day last
week, had three eggs to fall outen her
hands and break on the floor.
A fox run through the main street
of our village last Monday. Jim Haw-
ley's hound took after the fox and Jim
amt saw the hound sinst. Jim's hound
is a turrible good fox chaser.
UNO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
Stuck Up Ell

Hi Cranky met with what you would
naturally call an axident in the P. O..
the other ev'g. There has been a great
many flies in the P. o. of late, and at
last Postmaster Higgins purchased a
sheet of fly paper and placed it on a
box and set it just inside the P. o. door
60 ketch the flies coming in or going
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

Pins

I have took to whiting out close.
pins for saIei There is several VIM
men in Bingville and visinnity as have
told me that their cIosepins is al.
ways going back on them-gettins
broke, getting lost or something, and %
l am whiting out cIosepins in or.
der to fill a long felt want. 1 make
these closepins during the hours l am
resting in Hen Weathersby's store. NV
capacity is 2 %cIosepins a hour per-
viding my penknife is whet up sharp.
How are you off for closepins7 Bet
ter try some of mine and see how
you like them. Don't go and buy
store c~losepins. They break or get lost
within a week. 1 charge for these close
pins according to whatever you are able
to pay. If you are well off I'll charge
you rs cts. per dozen, but if you're
poor as dirt I'll charge you onIy 2
cts. apiece. These ~closepins Is all
hand made. Give me your order
right away.
us--- Dill
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-12-08
trolling grip on the finances of tn

trolling grip on the finances of tm
country,
Under the direction OF Reprcse0
tatiyc pujo and samuel untormyel
Of New York. special counsel for the
committee. experts have prepared au
elaborate compilation OF siatisti
embracing practically every financial
and Industrial Institution iu th,
country, and tracing the relation %.
each individual concern to Other
"ourors
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-12-08
A. { N. COLLEGE
REPORT IS MADE
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR
SCHOOL MADE TO Gov
ERNOR COLQUITT.

Special 10 Daily se~..
College Station. Texas. Dec -
Walton Peteet, president OF the
board OF directors OF the Agricultur-
al and Mechanical College OF Texas
has submitted TO Governor Colquitj
the biennial report OF the board co..
ering the two years ending August
1871. 1912. The report reviews ~
work accomplished by the various de-
partments OF the college and contains
recommendation for the expansiol
and support OF the school. Figures
are given showing a comparison b.
tween Texas and some other agricul-
tural states Az TO what they are do
Ing for the agricultural and mechan-
ical colleges Texas compares fay-
orably In the number OF students,
but ranks very low In the amount
given for support.
Perhaps the most significant fea-
ture Of the report Is tho recommen
dation asking for the establishment
OF a school OF veterinary medicine.
/ Copgent reasons are given showing
\ the need Of such a school II Is
pointed out that the total value OF
the livestock OF Texas approxlmates
1850. 900 900 and that this enormous
amount OF property IL without ade-
quate protection from diseases IA
appropriation OF sl50.000 is asked
for the establishment OF such q
school
The growth OF the school OF agri-
culture Is indicated and the need for
more Instructors and better equip.
ment Ii emphasized. During the SEES
sion OF ls06-O7. 5i5 students were
enrolled In the college OF that
number SIS or seventeen per cent stu
died agriculture. During the session
of BILE. out OF total OF ll2v
students. $40 or a little over 81 per
cent took courses in agriculture
These figures show a gain in the
past five years OF 5Ig.5 per cent.
Notwithstanding this remarkable IN
crease In the number OF agricultural
students. the appropriations made By
the state for supplying teachers and
equipment for the school OF agricul-
tudo has remained practically un-
lchanged
The legislature is urged TO pay of
the loans made by citizens OF the
state on the deficiency warrants
amounting to 100000, made TO re
place the main building and ths
mess hall which were destroyed b'
fire during last session.
The amount for the school OF az
riculture include veterinary sci
encc building to cost $4,000 q
stock Judging pavilion TO cost $40.
900. a hog cholera building TO COS
$4,000. and hog. sheep, horse and cat
tie barns To cost In all 81 goo. Othei
new construction outlined for ia,
next two years includes a dormltory
cottages, campus roads and walks, /,
new stand pipe and water mains
pumping machinery and one new
we'll. a new boiler. a new air com
prcssor. and now electric light and
power lines
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-12-08

Washington. u G., Dec. After
months spent In gathering data and
compiling statistics. the House COM
mittec on banking and currency
through i's chairman. Representative
Pujo OF Louisiana. announces ir-
rcad.Dsss % resume ou Monday the
taking %. testimony bro The cNhaus
tive rt0 ..-.D1n 10 has dcrtnkpr
with "a yIea tn discovering whether O.
small group OF rich men has q con-
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-12-08

500 Pictures ~ select from al
Pickerolls iewelry Store
Middletown transcript., 1912-06-15
Anthrax In Dogs
LUCY CARTER

WEST GRoyE, Pa, June deadly an
thrax has broken out here in the dairy
herd of Evan Storey, and four of his six
cows have died within few days.
As further evidence OF the malignant
character of this disease, six of the best
fox hounds in the pack of Master of
Hounds Samuel E. Worth of Chatham,
died after feeding off one of the carcasses,
as did also lis thoroughbred hunter, in
fected by the bite of fly that had pre-
viously fed on the diseased meat.
Ignorant OF the cause of death of the
first animal, the carcass was hauled to the
Worth kennels, where the hounds 2t in
all, fed freely. Among the six that died
was numbered Dutch leader of the pack,
and champion fox hound of southern
Chester county, having record of four
foxes holed and captured in one day. A
fiy lowering about the kennels later in
fected slight saddle sore on Mr.. Worth's
crack hunter and the horse valued at $500
died within "a hours.
Middletown transcript., 1912-06-15
TO AVOID DROWNING

w ilh the advent of the opening of the
swimming and bathing season, number
of accidental drownings is greatly incTeas-
ed. Although the sunni er has not at
rived, several accidental dFownings have
already occurred, and in every instance
the accident can be traced to two reasons
going into the water too soon after eat
ing and taking too many risks. A few
ra ;tical suggestions for the benefit OF the
inexperienced swimmer are herewith
given by swimming instructor. When
person is rescued from drowning the
reason is invariably given as cramps. In
nine cases out of ten the cramps are not
in the muscles of the limb, but stou ach
cramps. When persons enters the water
with full stomach the pressure of the
water against the body is SO great that
the food cannot digest; consequently the
person is seized with paroxyms OF pains.
Cramps also are due to entering the
water when overheated or if the water is
too cold. If one is bent upon taking q
plunge soon after partaking of food, let
him take little exercise for l5 minutes
on shore. 1t is generally believed that a
drowning person sinks and rises three
times and then goes to the bottom but
this is not a proven fact. find it de-
pends greatly upon the manner in which
a person goes overheard. person may
fall into the water from height of sew
eral feet aud strike on his back in such a
manner that he is forced to sink and
never rise. Others have been known to
remain on the surface of the water for
many minutes, bobbing up aud down
number of times before they meet death
through suffocation.
Then, too, cases are frequent where
person loses his head and dies through
sheer fright. Many a drowning person
could have been saved ii SOIL cone on
shore would jump overheard to his aid
when he cries for help. Instead OF so do
ing those on shore Will run a mile to get
someone to do it for them. There are
very few swimmers, even experts, who
understand how to rescue the drowning
with safety to themselves. In swimming
to tie side of a drowning person if the |
distance is great, reserve your energy un-
til the spot is reached, for if fatigued upon
arriving at the place your services will be
of no avail When withiH about 40 feet
of the spot dive under and come up under
the person and grab him about tile waist,
bringing him to the surface in a vertical
position. When on the surface get the
body in a horizontal position as better
speed can thus be made getting to shore.
Swim slowly and keep the head we'll back
and if the person is conscious talk to him
in a reassuring manner and allay his fears
as much as possible.
Middletown transcript., 1912-06-15
SNAPPY JUNE STYLES
NEW YnRK lime In

NEW YORK, June 10Th
Surely never before did the girls have
such chance to look their prettiest for
the straight silhouette which remains
fashionable is varied endleesly in all sorts
OF becoming way. With the new wrink.
les in coates, sashes friis and pipings it's
an easy matter to so change the aspect OF
last years gown that its own maker
would fail to recognize it.
CONTRASTS IN COLOR AND MATERIAL
Color contrasts and the mixing of odd
materials are carried to the limit of COM
bination seemingly a there are others.
Pipings and facings and bands of odd
co!ors bring out the ines of a costume or
turn trying somberness of hue into stun
ming beComingness. No one need hesi-
tate to select black, brown, or gray, be-
cause it does not accord with ones color
ing. White accessories at the neck, and
a dash of blue, yellow, red or lilac will
Middletown transcript., 1912-06-15
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF The PENINSULA

The Rev. Percy E. Hall, rector of St.
Timothy's Episcopal church, Catonsville,
preached the bsccaIsureate sermon Sun.
day to the graduating class of Tome Insti.
tute. Their annurl commencement was
held Monday morning.
Middletown transcript., 1912-06-15

Professor Twitmeyer, of Wilmington,
was the commencement speaker Of the
Lewes High School Friday night, when
Misses Margaret Burton, Helen Wilbank
Adelia Lank, Gladys Russell, Ethel Mar
tin and Ell Nicholson and Charles Jen-
kins, Rowland Ingram and Donald Evans
graduated.
Middletown transcript., 1912-06-15

Announcement has just been made of
the marriage of Miss Edna, daughter of
B. Frank Gray, of Milton, and George
Brasure, son of the late Senator Isaih
Brasure, OF SelbyvilIe. They will reside
in SelbyviIle; where Mr.. Brasure has busi-
ness interests.
Middletown transcript., 1912-06-15
THE NEW COMBINATIONS

THE NEW COM B1NATlONS
Skirts OF combination lingerie have such
way of riding up that the new corset
covers that finish with slim knickerbock
ers confined at the knee p romise to be al
most universally adapted by Fall. Some
made of white Chira silk, and thin pom
gee, are especially comfortable when the
thermometer scars to distressing heights.
FRILLs AND FRILLs AND FRILLs
If you don't quite know how to change
or improve the appearance of your coat
suit or blouse study some of the frills that
have broken loose like an epidemic, and
find the kind that suits you. There are
frills wide. narrow, fiat, faring, plain,
trimmed, pleated, rufled, adjusted in
every variety of line. Goats have a frill
on both sides of the front opening, that
flares out toward the face, or lies meeEly
down on the outside like continuous mar
row revers. Sleeves of all sorts have these
same finishes, draperies are edged with
them, hats uss them for brms, crowns,
and outstanding trimmings. They add
touch of grace and becomingness to any
rig if you apply them discreetly and are
sure that they are fresh and dainty for
surely nothing is more unattractive than
a mussJ fri!l.
LUCY CARTER
Middletown transcript., 1912-06-15

The funeral of W. Clifford Kirk, a popu-
lar farmer of Calvert section, who drop
ped dead from heart trouble was held
from his late home Sunday afternoon.
The Rev. William Schouer, rector of
Trinity Episcopal church, Ekton officiat-
ed.
Middletown transcript., 1912-06-15

Miss Elizabeth c. Poplar. of Havre de
Grace, and Herbert J. Clark of Whining
ton, announced their marriage Sunday
that took place in Wilmington on Novem-
ber q last.
Middletown transcript., 1912-06-15

Former County Commissioners Charles
A. Benjamin of Cecil county, and Mrs.
Abb Matthews Morris of Washington, D.
c., we're married in that city Wednesday
both being more than SO years old.
Middletown transcript., 1912-06-15

Mrs. Nettis Edwards aged S5 years wife
of William Edwards of Camden, N. j.,
died Sunday at Union Hospital after sew
eral weeks illness of blood poison. A
widoweE and three children survive her,
Middletown transcript., 1912-06-15

The graduating class of the Havre de
Grace High School attended st. Patrick's
Catholic church Sunday evening when a
special sermon was delivered to the class
by the Rev. James Filzerald.
Middletown transcript., 1912-06-15

Six children sustained broken arms in
as many days while roller skating in Cool
Spring Park, Wilmington, so the park
guards have prohibited the use of the
sport.
Middletown transcript., 1912-06-15

John J. Denver, a moulder at the Elk
ton foundry, sustained broken nose and
other injuries when he was struck in the
face by piece of iron thrown in play at
another workman.
Middletown transcript., 1912-06-15

The Wilmington Consumers League is
striving to have all stores give the en-
pIoyes halt-holidsy each week in July
and August.
Middletown transcript., 1912-06-15

Receivers of the American Brick Manu-
featuring Company on Saturday sold the
real estate and personal property of the
company at Stanton. subject to $4,000
mortgage, to the bondohlders for $I5, 900.