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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
Doc Livermore Says Bust
ness Is Picking Up

Doc Livermore, our horse dockter
& human speshialist, is purity cheerful
these days owing to the fackt that
sickness IN our midst is on the increase
and business in Docs line Is quite brisk
as you might say.
Doc says he don't know as he ever
seen more sick folks in Bingvi1le dur
ing the month of September, which is
very encouraging to him. Doc also
saws that soon as the cold fall rains
come on he looks for a big praoktise
in colds. coughs and pneumonia, and
has a big lot of medisines for these
diseases all bottled tip ready for use.
There for spell during the summer
Doc was a good deal discurridged. be-
ing as he dident have more than one
or two pashients, and talked some of
locating somewheres else where there
is more sickness, but now that sickness
is on the increase in our midst things
look very bright to Doc and he thinks
he'll stay on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
Editor BingviIIe BugIe
G~L EAR N 40
0URSELF
TO Dance

Being as I am acknowledged to be
the most graceful dancer N Bingville
and vicinity, l have decided to give
them as wants to learn to dance q
few lessons in the art and have rented
Cy Hoskins' buggy shed, in which I
will give lessons every Tuesday ev'g
until further notice.
The shed will be lit up with a Ian.
tern, and I will have Eb Gray to play
the fiddle for music. If you wish to
learn how to dance without falling all
over yourself, come to me and I will
show you. What good does it do to
go to dance if you can't dance? You
only tramp on ladies' feet, and ladies
don't like this. If there is anything .
lady likes it is good dancer.
All kinds of dances teached by me.
Shottiches, wa1tzes, 2 steps, cotillyons.
jigs and everything in this line, so that
when you go to a dance you won't
haft to set around and be wall
flower and a ornament
Anybody can learn to dance if thew
have any sents and their feet amt too
big, and they amt as awkward as a
COW. In order that these dancing les
sons may be in reach of all / will
charge for them at the rate of 10 cts.
lesson, or 3 lessons for a Quarter.
That's not so steep, all things con-
sidered. See me about it immediate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
Lem all Stuck Up

Lem Hankins had a awful disagree
able experients into Hen Weathersby's
store tother evg. Lem was leetle mite
late getting around to the store, being
as one Of his cows had excaped from
the pasture jest about milking time
and Lem had to chase her half way to
and when he had driv her back home &
did his milking it away after dark.
Well, when Lem went into the store
he noticed that all the chairs and
boxes and kegs was took up and there
dident appear to be nothink for Lem
to set on except a bari of crackers that
madden been opened, so Lem he set on
that. Finally LENS pipe went out and
he got often the bari to cross over to
the seegar case to git match ruther
than use one of his own, and then ev-
erybuddy busted out 1affn, being as
Lem had set down on a sheet of sticky
flypaper unbeknownst to hisse1f when
he set down, which had adhered to, and
that's what the boys in the store hol-
Tered and LATED at.
paper was fast to him, he used lang
widge which you wouldn't skeercely ex-
peckt from a stanch piller of the Bing
vile church. Deacon Snodgrass, who
was present, said, "Lemny, Lemmy
don't forgit, dear brother. that you are
a member of the church" Then Lem
turned on the Deacon and cussed him
until he invited Lem to step out into
the street and call him the same things
agin if he dared. The Deacon was so
mad that he swore almost as vilent as
Lem did.
Finally Lem succeeded in getting the
fly paper often himself, but it stuck
to his hands. Then when he'd git it
often one hand it would stick to tother
and vice versa. Lem kept Citing mad
der all the time. He wanted to know
of Hen Weathersby, prop of the store,
why in tarnashion he had f1ypaper lay
ing around keerless on top of flour
barls for his customers to come along
and set in and git all messed up, being
as the flies had all went by ennyhow.
Hen told Lem he ort to allus look be-
fore he set. Lem told Hen if he ever
got unsnarled from that gosh-ramrned
flypaper he'd newer buy another cents
wort hoffen him (Hen) as long as he
lived. Then Hen told Lem it would be
a good riddance of bad rubbish, being
as he Gem) done most of his trading
at the Co. seat. and allus had to be
trusted for what little he did buy at
his store,
One word led to another, until final
ly Lem lost his temper and pushed the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20

Me1ancthon Skinner desires us to an
nounce that he has red cow to sell.
Abe Watkins says that whenever Mel
about to GO dry. There may be some
thing in this.
This year has seemed to went awful
fast. 1t won't be long until we are in
the fell clutch of winter agin.
Gideon Johnson Sundayed with Gid's
brother Sol over on Pea Ridge last
Sunday. They report a very pleasant
time.
Little Tommy Barker had a severe
attack of sore throat one night last
week which was almost Group. Doc
Livermore was summoned and give
Tommy big dose of horse medicine
by mistake which seemed to help him
some because his sore throat is gone
now. Doc says that hereafter he will
give this horse medicine regular for
sore throat to man and beast alike.
The Bugle office cat caught mice
last week. She is a turrible good
mouser if we do say it ourself.
If you don't get your copy of the
Bugle this week you will know that we
didn't have enough Bugles to go round
to all of our subscribers. We had to
miss somebody and we thought we
might as we'll miss you.
Miss Milly Henderson appeared in
church last Sunday in a new dress her
mother made for her. 1t was lovely.
The other members of the quire were
that jealous of her that they would
scarsely speak to Milly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
EDDYTORIUL.

| There is somettink turrible bu-
tifewl & inspiring about poetry.
There is sornethink in pottery which
lifts person away up above the
sordid and baser things of earth &
,, permits him to sore in the clouds
for spell until the spell wears off,
as you might say Pottery is to
the mind what butifewl picter is
to the eye.
We have a11us been a great hand
for pottery. Personally we don't
claim to be no pote, you under
stand-our writing talents don't
seem to lay in that direckshion.
Potes is born, not made, and we
didn't happen to be horned a pote
We have discovered that on sew
eral occasions when we have tried
to dash off a pome on some ospi-
shus occashion or other, but we
can't seem to find words which
will rhyme and as result we allus
haft to give it up in deep disgust
We all have different talents give
to us. Now our talent is to dash
off from wk. to wk. red hot eddy
toriu1s for the Bugle, and we don't
want to brag or boast, but when it
comes to writing eddytoriu1s, which
is so deep that half our subscribers
can't understand 'ern, we don't take
back seat for nobuddy.
But what we have to say is that
we have butifewl pote and porne
writer in Our midst which we per-
dickt will some day astonish the
world. AS it is, some of her PONIES
have been published as far away
from home as the Co. seat, and
now she is looking for new worlds
to conker. We refer to Miss Sally
Hoskins, one of Our most estimable
young ladies of Bingvil1e
AS fur back as last July we have
been Fostering Sally to write pome
for the Bugle, which she promised
to do as soon as she got suffishent
inspirashion to do the same. Like
all CRATE potes, Sally can't jest set
down and dash off a pone emmy
tine-no, she has to wait for the
inspirashion to come to her. Then
she siezes her pen in hand and
writes with turrible genius
Well, the inspirashion for pome
for the Bugle didn't seem to come
to Sally until last Thursday ev'g
Jest before she went to bed. While
the fires of genius was burning in
Sally's buzzurn, as you might say,
she hunted up pen and ink and set
down and wrote a pome which will
go down in history as a masterpiece
for other porne writer's to pattern
after.
It is with great pleasure that we
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
Personals

Miss Sally Hoskins, the poet and
bard of Bingville, has agreed to write
Us a pome on Spring" some time next
spring. Look for it later. Also read
Sally's pome on September" in this
ishue.
Miss Molly Underwood had light
in the front parlor last Saturday ev'g
until half past eight. Was it you,
Sam?
Hank Dewberry made a trip to the
Co. seat on # also on business and
pleasure last wk. Hank said there
wasn't much pleasure in it, being as it
had rained the night before and the
roads was so muddy. However, FERN
Rankin overlook Hank in a wagon as
Hank was returning and give him a
lift as far as Simpsons crossroads, which
helped Hank out considerable What
Hank went to the Co. seat for was a
pr of leather IL soles to sole his boots
with. Why are not leather half soles
kept in Bingville? Hen Weathersby
the Co. seat to trade and thus discur-
ridging home trade as long as he don't
keep what they want in stock.
Lime Peterson purchased a new clay
pipe on last Saturday ev'g. Sunday
morning he filled it up and set down
on his front piazzer to have a smoke
just after breakfast and went to sleep
and the pipe slipt outen his mouth and
fell on the floor and broke into 1000
pieces. This made Lime so made that
he swore off smoking and went to
chewing.
Miss Emily Dewberry nit very
handsome tidy last wk. 1t is made
outen yeller and blue yarn and is gor-
jous. Miss Emily is a expert hitter.
Hez Underwood shot a partridge at
the lower edge of town just back of
his place on Thursday morning with
the shot gun, which upon examinashion
proved to be a half growed chicken of
a brood which was Matched out by a
hen of Hezze's own, which stole off her
nest in July. Hez was considerable
surprised when he discovered he had
went and shot one of his own pul1ets
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20

persent this porne as folders to the
readers of the Bugle, and we hope
you will all read it over carefully
several times so as to be sure that
you git outen it all there is in it.
We read it over seven times, and
every time we read it we got new
meaning outen it. Perhaps you
can do the same. However, here
is the pome:
SEPTEMBER.
September, here you are agin!
You come round quick as anything;
The summers went & so I sigh;
My goodness, how time does flyi
Thares coolish feeling in the breeze
& I notice the leaves has begin to drop
often the trees;
It won't be long until the good old
Summer has passed & then it will git
cold
But there-it amt no use to sulk-
What's the use crying over split milk?
We mite as we'll dance & sing some
& take things as they come.
SALLY HOSKINS
NOTICE-Other papers please
copy Sally's pone, and thus boost
her along to fane.-Editor Bugle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20

flypaper, which was stuck on his hands
into Hens face, then it stuck to Hens
face instid of to LENS hands. Hen
started for Lem, and Lem started for
the door. Hen couldn't see where he
was going very we'll for the flypaper
in his face, and as result his toe
ketched on the sawdust box and he fell
with his face in box of bride herring.
By this time Lem had excaped from
the store and was on his way home.
Willing hands finally helped Hen to git
the flypaper often his face. but he says
if Lem Hankins desires to be kicked
out jest let him come into his store
apin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
LOkaI Items

Hi Cranky put a new pain of glass
in the front window of his residents,
which adds greatly to the attractive
ness of that part of the residentshial
seckshion of Bingville Being as HIS
house stands right on the street the
absents of this pain of glass which has
been broke out for several yrs. and
has been took the place of by rags
stuffed into 1t has been a eyesofe to
everybody,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
Entertainment

The Epworth League of the Bingville
Church will give a pie soshial in the
church basement on Thursday night
next Pies of various kinds will be
served also coffee
A admisshion fee of cts. will be
charged at the door, but the pie and
coffee is free. After you eat pie there
will be music & littery entertainment
give in which well knowed Bingivillians
will take part. Come one, come all,
and fill up on pie & intellectual feast
ing.
BY ORDER OF COMMITTEE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
Country Correspondence
SORROW HOLLOW

Bill Woods tried to sharp his axe
last wk. holding the axe with one hand
and irving to turn the grindstone with
tother It was awful slow work, and
Ri11 saws he guesses he will put off
eharpine his axe until he can get some
BODY to turn his grindstone for him.
Mrs. Ben Wade has hen that wants
oset Who can beat this for hen
wanting to set this time of yr-F
Lafe Henderson's sons wife present.
ID him with a lob baby boy last WIKI,
and as result Lafe is passing around
his plug of tobacco. We haven't had
the plug passed to US as yet, Late, but
nevertheless we congratulate you.
Jabe Parker complains that he don't
get his Bugle any more. Jabe says he
don't know why this is unless it is be-
cause he amt payed his subscripshion
sincst 1888, and he regards that as
very poor excuse.
Mrs. lane Truman done big wash
last Sunday and had it out on the line
bv 10 a. m. How's that for getting a
wash out early? VERIIAo.
HARDSCRABBLE
Bill Haywards bunion is giving him
trouble of late. Bill says
he don't see what bunions was ever in
vented for, unless it was to torture
people with:
Sim Goodwin, our enterprising Hard
scrabble postmaster, says he don't sell
near as many stamps as he used to,
and he reckons this is because there Is
SO much compensation these days,
lake Hanover killed calf last wk.
and sold most of it to his naybors- We
got chunk. 1t was fine veal
Trip Mulligan, who used to live here,
and now holds lucrctive posishion in
a livery stable at the Co. seat, was here
on a visit over Sunday with his folks.
OBSERVER.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
.. atch .
This SPACE
next Week

It Is liable to have something in it
that will interest you'll
We couldn't find anything to fill il
TIP with this wk., and so we haft to
let it GO to waist, as you might say.
But by next week we hope somebody
will appreciate the value of the Bugle
as a advertising medium suffishunt to
fill it up with something worth reading.
See us for terms on this space.
The herald., 1913-10-30
METHODIST NOTES.

The revival continues to grow in
numbers and interest. The house has
been full the last few night. The Mems
Wesley Glass have attended in body
three times, and on the other Occa-
sions have been we'll scattered through
the congregation.
Brother Morris sermon Sunday
night on What shall it profit man
was pronounced by some prominent
men to be the best they ever heard on
that subject Brother Morris address
ed the young people Monday night.
Tuesday evening he spoke specially TO
the older folk. Wednesday, to the Ma
sons, and next Sunday at IL a. m. he
will have a Mothers" service.
The meeting will continue through
out this week and probably longer. The
evening service begins at 7:30 p. m.
and lasts about one hour. The p. m.
meeting has been discontinued.
Many have made a public confession
of faith, forty-five of whom have ap-
piled for church membership. This
makes a total of eighty members re-
ceived this year. The recent appli-
cants will be received in a class at the
close of the Sunday night service. They
will later be formed into classes, ac-
cOrding TO age, for instruction and
guidance All have greatly enjoyed
the children's songs and the special in
strumental music by Mrs. T. P. Bell,
Ed. Daniels and Wallace Hebert Mrs.
Summers, Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson
have contributed sweet vocal music.
The herald., 1913-10-30

summer, for instance? Clinton, Iowa
Guess again. How about Reno? You
don't believe that. Well. let me tell
you there was letter in her hand
writing with Reno postmark in the
mail box last Tuesday, and another
one, document size and the address
typewriter, same postmark, that I'll
bet the cigars come from her lawyer,
and when Jippers got 'em, he opened
hers right there in the vestibule, and
when he had read it, he swore and
crumpled 1t up and showed it In his
pocket, then went right past me as II
hadn't been there. chewing on his
moustache. He didn't come home that
night either. Well, 1t amt no busi-
ness OF mine, as told my wife, but
you can bet there's one apartment In
this building that's going to be sublet
this summer.
Il don't blame her." declared the
1anitor. II kept pretty close tab on
that mail box Of theirs when she was
over to White Lake with the kid last
year, and there was some letters to
him IN dinky square envelopes with
sealing wax on them that was kind
OF curious about, and after she got
back, and up to the time she went to
visit with her mother, In Clinton, Iowa
not, she had trouble with her eyes
all the time. They was generally red
and swelled up, but one time, one of
EN- was black and swelled up. He's
lalapaloosa, that Jippers guy. Fer
guson wanted to go over and beat his
head in *hen told him about it.
What do you think would happen
II got to tattling? Suppose got to
buzzing over the hack fence what the
Gollops kept that trained nurse for.
Old Lady Gollop's subject to heart
trouble or something, amt she? You
bet she is-something. If | had the
kind of trouble she's got, know what
kind OF a nursing I'd get from my
wife. Shed serve notice on eyery'
saloon In the neighborhood inside of
two hours. Yes, l got hep to that
before the nurse came. Them tonic
prescriptions the old lady got from
the druggist on the avenue about ey
cry other day, used to tone her up a
plenty. She got reckless once and
left about three fingers in the bottle
she put out, and l wouldn't have con-
sldered l was taking any particular
r1sk II I'd drunk it. Most generally
though, there wasn't much left in
them bottles but the cork and the
smell. Mrs. Anglin, in II, said she
suspected it on account of the flushed
look Mrs. Gollop had all the time.
she's a wise dame, Mrs. Anglin is, but
she's kind Of careless with her bot. |
les herself. Peroxide, they are,
mostly. But that's her look out. It's
her own hair. too. If you come to that
put 1t won't be long if she don't let up
lsing that dope.
Sure there's plenty going on here
The herald., 1913-10-30

II you're inclined to be nosey. Neis.
my friend" said the janitor. IF
wasn't naturally close mouthed, could
surprise you Them Brudnicks. for
instance Great front they put up,
don't they? You'd think they had
money to throw to the birds, wouldn't
you? Well, they have, and what the
birds don't get. they burn; but they're
shy when it comes to digging up what
they owe Strunck's market, and from
what I've found out by putting two
and two together out OF their waste
paper basket, it won't do Strunck
much good to sue. All he's gets his
judgment, and you can't buy shelf
full OF canned goods with a court
house full Of Judgments. That's what
/ told him. 1t amt my business, OF
course, but Strunck treats me pretty
white and | don't want to see him
throw good money after bad. II / was
as slack-jawed as you. l might make
trouble for that oldest girl of Tup
pers, too Not but what the boys all
right and she's all right, but he amt
the one that old man Tupper has got
picked out for her. | know that from
what heard when | was cleaning the
windows on the floor below.
Certainly II a man wanted to talk,
there's enough happening here all the
time to talk about" said the janitor.
81 could run a society journal with
less than l pick up every day, but
amt inquisitive and amt gabby, and
won't have nobody working for me
what is. You understand that. don't
you, Nels. my friend? That's all right
then.
Hold on a minute. Nels," called the
ianitor, as his assistant turned to go.
did understand you to say that they
was throwing dishes or just that some
dishes got smashed? Who began the
racket anyway. Was it him or herr"
The herald., 1913-10-30

indianapolis News states. The may.
or said it was the most exciting thing
that has happened since he has been
laid up with the lumbago. He be-
lieves a bird fight has a cock or dog
tight backed of the boards when II
comes to genuine excitement.
The trouble started when the baby
oriole few from the nest of it's par.
ents In a big maple tree across the
street, to huge elm tree in the may.
or's yard. Here, proud of its first
flight alone, the little oriole perched
itself on a limb to rest.
A woodpecker, peeping out of its
nest in the elm. saw the intruder and
made an attack on the oriole. The
watchful parent orioles, Just across the
street. saw the attack and fed to their
baby's rescue. Mrs. Woodpecker ar
rived on the scene, and the fight began
In earnest
Feathers few. and the fighters gave
vent to birdland profanity. First the
woodpeckers would seem to have the
best OF 1t, and then the orioles. When
the fight was at its height a robin that
had its nest In the elm tree with the
woodpeckers decided to take a hand.
presumably as peacemaker. The rob
In would fight one bird and then anoth-
er. Once all five birds fell to the
ground, but were on the wing again
In an instant and the fight was re-
newed.
A crowd of probably rs people liy-
Ing In the neighborhood gathered. The
robin did not make any great headway
as peacemaker and the mayor was
OF the opinion that he just butted in
for little excitement. At any rate
the robin did not appear to have any
favorites in the melee.
The birds fought for more than hall
an hour until they were almost ex-
hausted. Finally the orioles few back
to their maple tree and the woodpeck.
ers flew to limb In their own tree
The baby oriole, the cause of the
trouble. was found hanging from
tiny limb, dead.
1t was certainly great fight" said
the mayor, but feel sorry for that
poor little baby oriole."
The herald., 1913-10-30
BELLEVILLE NOTES.

The three best records last weel
were made
In attendance
5th Grade A, Miss Stenhouse, teach
er. 1887.
4th Grade A, Miss Crane, teacher
1896.
Sth Grade B, Miss E. NJ. Rees, teach,
er, 1866.
Which gave the flag to Miss Stem.
houses elias of the 5th A grade.
In Spelling
Sth A, Miss Duvic, Z perfect papers.
1929 average; sth B, Miss E. NJ. Rees, !
perfect paper, .9O2 average; 7th A. Miss
Seller, 8 perfect papers, 80 average.
The morning exercises are proving
quite an attractive feature of the day
at Belleville School. Each class takes
turn to provide either instruction or
entertainment for the rest of the school
assembled in the west basement, and
the element of uncertainty as to the
numbers to be presented attracts the
girls.
The herald., 1913-10-30
homemade Cedar Chest.

Get large pine packing box Hinge
on the lid and putty up the cracks if
there are any, but it is better to get
one without cracks. Purchase a bot
tie of cedar oil from the druggist and
paint the inside OF the box with this,
being sure that the oil soaks into all
creyices. Use the oil plentifully. and
when thoroughly dry line the box
with cambria. Cover the outside with
any preferred material. The cedar
oil will retain its odor for years, and
Is as mucL disliked by moths as the
cedar wood itself.