The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-19
ON THE BOOM!
That's What BingviIIe Is at Pres
ent Tread all About the Mise
Improvements Which Is Taking
Place in Our Midst!

The other day we made a tour OF
Bingvi11e and vicinity to ascertain if
possible what is being did and going to
be did this spring in the way of building
and improvement in Our town and vicin-
ity.
| You can always tell how town is
prospecting by the amount of building
and improvement which is being made
| in its midst. When you see how struck
| shures are going up then you know that
| the town is growing and that If it keeps
on at similar rate for an indefinite per-
iod will some time become one of the
metropollisses of the county in which it
is located If on the other hand you
can't find any signs of building or other
Improvement, then you know that the
town has stopped growing and has
drifted into innoxcious desuetude, as
you might say, or in other words is
as dead as smoked herring. It was to
kind of place our editorial finger on the
pulse of progress which beats in our
midst that we made the tour of Bing-
vile above alluded to and below we give
the results of our investigation.
Deacon Butterworth announces that
some time next month he will erect on
his premises back of his palatial resi-
dence on Main st. new henhouse. The
deacon has been in need of new hen
house for several years. The one he is
keeping his hens in at present is warped
and cracked and shaky and has holes in
the roof and elsewhere and is delapita-
ted to such a extent that he finds it i'm
possible to keep the skunks and foxes
from stealing his chickens whenever
they become hungry. These varmints
have now got him down to five pullets
and one rooster. Deacon Butterworth's
new hcnhouse when erected will add
greatly to the rear portions of his back
yard
y Snide Petersby is talking some of
shing1ing one side of his barn some time
during the coming summer, but he may
not Snide has been threatening to do
this now for several years. Five years
ago he shingled the opposite side but
could not at that time afford to single
the opposite side that now needs sh1ng-
ling, and as a result one side at present
needs shingling and the other side does |
not Snide says he has got started |
wrong on that barn. If he shingles the
side that needs shing1ing now, then in
about five years it will still be good but |
the side which is now good will then
need Singing Snide says he calkilates
he'll never be able to come out even
on it
Ranse Hi11yer gives us notice that he
will shortly erect Tightening rods on his
barn. This will greatly enhance the
beauty of the barn.
LATER-Since writing the above
Ranse says that he has changed his
mind. He says he now understands that
a barn which has tightening rods onto it
attracts Tightening and is liable to be
struck and that he don't want that to
happen to his barn.
Glenn Goolzins viii give his buggy a
fresh coat of varnish this spring. 1t
will be remembered that Glenn set out
70 do this last spring. He even went SO
far as to order gallon of varnish
which he emptied into pail and left
n the buggy shed, intending to start in
IN the vanishing early the next morn
ng, but during the night his old cow
Spot broke into the buggy shed and
trunk up all the varnish, and as a re-
;ult died
The Widow Skinner tells US that she
intends to paper her front parlor with