Show BITE FITE IN BAND 1 Members of of Bingville Horn Band an Get All AH Het Met up About Money With Result T That at Horn Band Will Vill not Perform at Co Fair According to Custom Read About Fite The he m Hod known to ev every ry as the Bingville Horn Band which has lightened d so manny of our more weary ary mom moments with w ith the strains strains of musick sometimes s a trifle sour but always always' has had a fight within itself arid and a d as a r result its ch cheery ry notes will wilt not this jr yr r ring ring 0 out upon the assembled multitude at the Hardscrabble Fair It has been well said that money mon y is is' the root of all evil for it was nothing more or l less ss than mon money y which was at atthe atthe atthe the bottom of this fite file jt t is a pitty that there cannot be a organization which h cannot preserve its fr freedom edom and its aloofness ss from the comm commercial taint by remaining free from the of th the Golden Calf The committee e ov over r to the Hardscrabble bl ble Fair made the Horn Band a offer in in accordance with their ral- ral ness in the past The which the Horn Band was to receive for going ov over r to Hardscrabble and pla playing ng from 9 in in the a a. a m. m until 6 in inthe in the p. p m. m was 3 which is a generous I sum that the band will be bethere bethe bethere the there e only two days day and it will m cost them nothing to git inside the gait gaites s and ands the and ever ever- ever ever- s see e the fair and p people thing else As soon as the genn rous offer off r of the I Fair air Comm Com was made known J Jed d Peters Peters Peters Pet Pet- ers our intelligent nt school t teacher acher and leader of the Horn Band called a a. a meeting meeting meet meet- ing of th the band to b be held in the back backof of Hen Weathersby's store last so Sao as as' as to decide about e everything thing S E w was as on time those pr present present pres pres- s- s ent nt being Eph Higgins base drummer Seth th Dewberry rr trombone Harve Hines I. I picolo pi i- i Bige g Barker arker cymbals and Iz I Gookins base horn I J Jed d P Peters first a pounced that the was wis 3 and that this I would be divided equally among the members thus giving gh each member 50 50 0 apiece for his 2 days day's work To there was wali a off offal l holler hotler Eph Higgins I spoke right up and said that he was horn if he be thought Jed P Peters ol ought hi to g get t that much for waving waging a littel stick in the air when he had t to f harry a big base drum aro around nd on his St pounding it Eph said Be Tie ought to to g get t 1 dol and that th the other idols 2 dols ought to be divided equal amo among lg the other oth r five members m At this Iz 7 Gookins and S Seth th D Dewberry Dewberry Dew Dew- w. w berry s set t up a yell jell Both Seth trombone and the base basel and andla Iz said the l horn took a pow powerful amt of wind to blow and that they would be blamed if th they y would divide equal with Harve vho lio only had to now and then thenon on a measly littel piccolo and Bige Barker who pl played y d on a a instrument which it just like the cymbals was pleasure or loafing to play Both Seth and Iz said they thought th they y ought to have the other 2 to divide between n them Jed and Bige jest sat and at t ther 3 and took the stand that all of them possess possessed d the th skill and brains of the part party while m merely merely mere mere- r ly Iy poss possessed the brute strength Th They y 1 said if was going to lose money it was Eph and Seth and I Ir Iz and not them Eph spoke up and said Do you mean to say say Jed p Peters you you littel runt that it dont don't take more skill to play a abase abase abase base drum so as to make it than it does to wave a littel l stick inthe in inthe inthe the air Jed says Tb ts t's what I Im m mean an I r reckon ckon x With that Eph pulled the top off the crock and lamm d Jed in the h head d with it rained me and wh when n p peace ace was final finally r restored st r d it was found that th there re wasn't wasn no band Jed J dand and Harve and Bige were w re willing to be a a a band and so was Eph and S Seth th and Iz but yau ou u cant can't g get t a band out of a base drum and a tr trombone trombone m- m bone and a base horn nor can you Jou get one out of a l leader ad r anda randa and a piccolo and anda anda a ad a cymbals So Son now w there aint no no band |