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Show I THE BINGTILLE BDGLE The Loading Paper of the County Bright. Broiy,BalIicoao, Bustling eata a kn ma sae Inarova aJ hlatag aaaa Bar sUMrte w ear ra evarr ! lat saw. Tfca csaaprat anrUata la tM Canary. It jaa bna la aewttatae eaart I aad an aa. rar fartaar iaCanaatlaa aaU aa ar adaaasa tka aditar. Cy Hoskins, who made trip to the Co. seat last week, brung home with him a tumble rumor, which we hope won't never come true. Cy said he heard on good authority over to the Co. seat that some capitalists cap-italists from that place, who have considerable capital which they don't know what to do with, are going to use it up to build a street car line from there through Bingville, Bing-ville, as far north as Hardscrabble. Cy is big in for the street car line being as lie Aggers it will pass right through his land and that he will frit several times as much as the land is worth for right-of-way. Why don't outsiders let Bingville and its peaceful citizens alone? What business have they to build a street car line right through our midst whether we want same or not? So far Bingville has managed man-aged to wiggle along without a street car line and we calkila(e we can do so in the future. We have talked with several of our most respected re-spected citizens and from what they say we infer that a street car line come to Bingville is that while he has saw street cars, he has never rode on one and would like to try his hand at it five or ten cents' worth anyhow. Hank says he didn't have much trouble learning to ride a. bicycle when they first come out and he calkilates he could learn to ride a street car also, if he had a little chanct to practise. Hen Weathersby, prop of our general store, says he is dead set against the street car line coming to Bingville and he don't care who knows it. Hen says as soon as there is a street car line from Bingville Bing-ville to the Co. seat' he reckons folks will do all their trading at the latter place and like as not he will have to close up shop. . He says it is hard enuff to get Bingville folks to patronize home trade as it is, and that if there was a street car line to the Co. seat so that a person could ride there for a nickel, he would have to cut down his prices on dry goods, grocers, noshiont, etc., so as to sell as cheap as the Co. seaters in order to hold trade. Hen has enjoyed a monopoly of the store business in Bingville for lo these many years and hopes to continue to do so in the future. Let us rize up in our might and protest against street cars coming to Bingville. Let our town selectmen select-men who have the interest of the town at heart rise up in their might and pass an ordinance against street cars entering the town. Far be it from us as editor and prop of the "Bingville Bugle to stand in the way of human progress or in the way of street cars cither, but we feel it our sacred duty to fight against street cars coming to Bingville Bing-ville to the last ditch. line through Bingville will be very unwelcome. Who wants the quiet serenity of our peaceful town busted to smithereens smith-ereens by the offul rattle of street cars whizzing right past our doors ? We pause for a answer to this question. Who is there in our midst who desires to have their wives or their children, if they have any, or their cats or their dogs scairt to death by street cars buzzing buzz-ing past or like as not run over and injured or killed for life? I You can't scarcely pick up a city newspaper nowadays without' reading read-ing about some person who has been run over by a street car. Do we want that here ? Bill Hepburn, our artistick blacksmith, black-smith, and Hank Dewberry, who ain't got no visible means of support, sup-port, are both in favor of the new street car line, but thank goodness, neither Bill nor Hank voices the general sentiment of the community. commun-ity. Bill says if there was a street car line from Bingville to the Co. seat it would be very convenient for him to jump on a car and ride to the Co. seat on business and pleasure every Saturday, returning home on the last car Saturday night, probably In a comotose and inebriated condishion as usual. As for Hank.' he says that the reason be would like to sec a street car |