Show BUSY SEES TAKE CHARGE f OF A GROCERY STORE unn I r i t t I t r 11 l I 4 jr i V 4t j G I t 1I The Dees Took Possession of the Grocery Store Minneapolis total disregard of tho fact that It was Saturday and that I customers on that day bought their f r cupplies for over Sunday a swarm of I bee3 took possession of the grocery tai < store of M H Johnson at Thirty JIg fourth street and Nlcolett avenue and F hold It against all comers for tho bees ji s had detected an open sugar bin and I other sweets and would brook no In terforence In their plant Over In the vicinity of Bethany I N r Homo thero Is an apiary and according accord-ing to boo fanciers tho winged brigade which Invaded the storo came from the Bethany hives A broken window gavo tho foragers their chance anti before the clerks In tho store realized where tho attacking party camo from they wore driven Into tho street In the respite between tho retreat of tho clerks and tho first attack on tho Invaders tho bees continued to swarm through the broken window and when tho clerks advanced to tho charge tho storo was well llllod with Insect occupants All afternoon tho battle waged and although tho clerks wero able after a determined stand with brooms and other Implements of warfare to handle the orders which como In by telephone tele-phone there was a decided letup In trade and tho majority of customers who personally conducted their marketing mar-keting tours stood on tho sidewalk outside and veiled their orders through tho open door On tho next day Mr Johnson and his assistants armed for tho fray and wearing ofllclal bcokuocers cos tunics started In on a campaign of extermination that the last stand of the beo warriors had been overcome and tho last assailant of thesugar bin had succumbed to superior force Trade Is progressing as usual |