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Show Pcrsonal Mention Eph Higgins, our accommodating P. M., wishes us to announce that until further notice he will lick stamps for customers with great cheer. Eph says that the gum on the last batch of stamps which come in has such a nice flaver to it that he kind of likes the taste and that it is a pleasure to lick the tamps. Eph says it tastes like vaniller flaver. Simon Watkins sold Hank Dewberry a setter dog last week for $2, of which amount Hank paid 25 cents on account. Sime told Hank that this setter was a good bird dog. btft Hank says the only birds which the dog has ketched is his chickens, being -as he has killed three and crippled several others. Hank says he will sell the dog cheap to anybuddy desiring a setter dog. Subscribe for the Bugle and pay cash in advance. Then if you ain't satisfied we will give you your money back providing pro-viding we ain't spent it in the meanwhile. mean-while. -Miss Amelia Tucker, our leading society so-ciety queen of the Bingville smart set. got stung by a bee in the back yard tother day while picking flowers, and as a result Amelia's face is swelled up considerable on one side. Amelia aays her face pains her tumble. A me Hillyer, our talented loryer and legal light, made a trip to Hardscrabble on the first of the week to raise some money to pay interest on the mortgage on his home, but come back empty handed. hand-ed. A me says it is easy enuff to lend money if you have it, but it is tumble hard to borrow any if you are broke. Hank Dewberry has been offered several sev-eral jobs of farm work this summer but Hank has refused all. being as he says he is afraid of sun stroke in the summer time. In our opinion Hank ain't near as much afraid of sun stroke as he is of a little work. Hen Weathersliy, prop of our general store, has showed a good eal of enterprise enter-prise by keeping a crock in his store Ailed with ire water for the benefit of customers. Hen said be thort this would draw trade, but he is mistaken, being as folks come from all over Bingville Bing-ville to get a drink of ice water for nothin and then uepart without buying an thing cutrn the store. As a result Hen says he guesses he will charge a cent per glass after this for k water. |