South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-01-17
Personals & LOkaIS Inter.
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Lash Smiley says its almost cold
enuff to freeze the horns often a muley
COW. A muley COW amt got no horns
on her to freeze off, you dogblamed
fool
Be that as it may we'll all be turrible
glad when this cold snap is over. With
the thermometer Is to 20 degrees be-
low zero it don't seem possible that il
was as hot in Bingville last summer as
il was does it? Anser-no il don't
Doc Livermore, our expert veterinary
& human speshialist was off feed 1t
couple of days this wk Doc says he
thinks his stummick went back on him
being as he overet when he was invited
out to dinner TO Lem Quigley's last Sun-
day. Doc diddent take none of his own
medisin when he was sick although If
he would it would give his other pash-
tents more confidence in him
Miss Milly Underwood went & lost a
silver bracelet which Sam Winters who
she is engaged to give her for Xmas &
amt been able to find it ennywheres.
Sam says he had to pay a dollar & a
half for that bracelet and he might as
well of kept the money in his pocket
for all the good it done Milly.
Liman Peterson is Shedding logs for
Jim Hicks sawmill down on Snake
Bend. Lime says it's turrible cold set
tin up on sledload of logs this bitter
wether and sometimes he almost wishes
he was one of the oxes pullin the load
for then he could manage to keep warm.
Hez Underwood recently received a
letter from his brotherinlaw Sim Peck
who migrated out to Illynois several yrs
ago. Sim writes that he is in good
helth and prosperin. LATER-Hez was
jest in the Bugle offs to say that the
letter from Sim is dated July Is, 1913
1t srems that Eph Higgins our accom-
modating P. NJ. mislaid the letter when
It arrived and only found it tother day
when he was cleaning up. Hez SAYS his
brotherinlaw may be dead or in bank
rrs2sy at the present writing for all he
kIS.Ns.
Jason Tucker the brave chief Of the
Bingville Fire Dept, has been putting
new hoops on some Of the water pals
in the dept lately being as he saws that
some of them leaks and otherwise would
De no good to carry water in to a con-
flagrashion.
Jim Hendricks says he has never saw
as hard winter as he has saw so far
this winter and Jim has saw a good
menny. Sometimes Jim says he is o. yrs
old and sometimes over a hunderd. The
facktS in the case is that Jim problv
don't know jest exackly how old he real
ly is. It's been so long sinst he was
borned that he has likely forgot the
exackt date.
Wild driving snow roller along the
road west of Bingville to break out the
road last Wensday Gid Smalley got cold
and numb and fell often the roller
which passed clean over him and like
10 of smasht the daylights outen him
Gid says he thort his last day had come
when that roller started over him and
that ne prayd in a loud voice as long &c
ne mad emmy broth at all left to pray
with When the roller past over Gid
and left him alive he got up and cussed
like everything.
Abe Witherow desires us TO nounce
in his behalf that he has decided to be-
come a candidate for Town Constubble
OF Bingville at the spring election. We
make the a nouncement with great cheer.
but we wish to state that at the present
we amt made up our mind 10 support
Abe for constubble. Seth Dewberry has
allus made a turrible good constubble in
our oPunyun and Seth also keeps his
subscripshion to the Bugle paid right 90
to the scratch. If Abe was TO paw In
his back subscripshion and hand us enuff
ready cash to pay it in advance for
few yrs we mite see our way 10 suDport
HIM for constubble, but not otherwise.
One of Lem Gookins COWS give brit