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Show come up the Deacon u pottering around out to the barn and blamed if a bolt of lightnin didn't come in through the winder in the gable of the barn and the Deacon said it come within ; ar foot - of 'going through him. Sinst then the Deacon Dea-con calkilate that the Lord muM of been too busy at something else to look after his safety and for that reason the Deacon will have lightnin rods put onto his barn. That thunder and lightnin storm ought to be a lesson to all of us to go and have lightnin rods ereckted. The lightnin' rod is a great invention. inven-tion. - ' L In condushion we desire to say that for the aecommodashion of the public we have went and had ourielf appointed a agent for lightnin rod company and are authorized au-thorized to sell lightnin rods to the people of Bingvjlle for all we can get for them. Give us a call and we will, show you. samples, with great cheer. Do not delay putting lightnin rods on your house. Another An-other thunder and lightnin storm might come up tomorrow and you git struck like as not Do it now I I THE BINGTILLE BUGLE Tk Leading Paper of th County Bright, Brecay.BeJIkesa, Bustling r n aw Mk W hart BtOa kw laann ck atlalas aw S cataatla kmr all Uaa ap ma wntf l ilia Saw. TV ebMant aarartlaaa utMB ij larUMt aatamatMB aaU ae ar aaama th a<ac. We are glad to sUte that sinst the terrible thunder and lightnin storm of last Tuesday, several of our cttirens has went and decidedj to have lightnin rods placed onj their houses and barns and others will foller their example. We have always said that we thought lightnin rods was a good thing, but have' been pooh-poohed, right to our face for saying so. Now we can set back and look pleasant and say, "I told you so," with satisfackshion. If there had been more lightnin rods in pur midst last Tuesday it is a safe pre-dickshion pre-dickshion that not near so many buildings would of been struck by lightnin in this vismitty. Cy H os kins, who hat , always been opposed to lightnin rods up to this time, now acknolledges the error of his Ways and State that he is agoing to have lightnin rods put onto his premises until they jest bristle with em. Cy's reason for not having lightnin rods heretofore here-tofore . was that -his house was struck with lightnin about three years ago and going on the principle princi-ple that lightnin never strikes twict m the same place. Cy he thought lightnin rods would be sooperflu-ous. sooperflu-ous. When,Cr was nearly getting struck hisself last Tuesday then he' changed his mind about lightnin never strikin twict in the same place. ' ' Bige Barker never would have lightnin rods about his place being as he didn't want to attrackt the lightnin, as he said. We had to go and explain to Bige that lightnin rods wasn't to attrackt lightnin but to keep it away and then the scales fell from Bige's eyes and he admitted admit-ted that lightnin rods might be a awful good thing. - Bige said he had alius been of the opinion that lightnin rods was to bring the lightnin and that for the life )f him he couldn't never understand why people would have lightnin rods about the house, because be-cause from Bige's standpoint lightnin light-nin was something' that a person would nacherly want to avoid if possible and go a long way to keep outen the way of. . Deacon Butterworth' was opposed op-posed to buying lightnin rods because be-cause they was to expensive and also because the Deacon believes that the Lord will prevent a person from being struck by lightnin. Last Tuesday, however, when the storm |