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Show AWFUL STORM! , Including Lihtnia Thunder I Win. Which Yisitted 6in.il!e list Tuesday Terrible Excite-nent Excite-nent in Our Kidst While It listed Full Pirticklers of Sasi Below been truckl A (tm tree which stands at the Aorth end of town wa struck and split dean open. , , Ik Hawley, who live two mile weit of Bingville. had a cow to be truck for him aad lulled instant She wa a food cow, too, and it is a aad blow to Ike, who drett her and told her out for beef. A great many folka wouldn't buy any of the beef on the grounds that n wa full of elecktricity and wasn't fit to eat We took a chunk from Ike, however, in exchange for year' back subscription, and we didn't notice any alecktricity m it to tpeak of. There wasn't much rain with the storm it was mostly thunder and light-nin light-nin and wind. The wind don considerable consid-erable . damage.' . Mrs. Lent Brown washed on Tuesday, being as she hada sick headache on Monday and couldn't Well, she had her wash out on the line about the time the storm com up and along com blast of wind and tore th clothe often the lino and carried car-ried them alt over town. After the storm was over she found everything but a shirt and one sock of Lem's, which she couldn' find hide nor hair of. Widow Skinner says she seen the shirt in Mrs. Hank Dewberry' back yard a hour after the itorm, and Mrs. Brown is of the opinion that Mrs. Dewberry got it and pertenda that the don't know who it belong to, being as she says it ain't a been week linst she' heard Mrs. Dewberry say that Hank wa tumble hard up for shirts. She says Hank will be watched like a hawk and if be i caught with her husband's shirt on he will be persecuted to the full extent of the law. Bingville has not yet recovered from the awful thunder and lightnin storm which visited our midst last Tuesday, It begin to grow black in the west, about 9 a. m. Several of our prominent promin-ent citirens was setting out in front of Hen, Weathersby't More at the time, and Brad Hinslev remarked that it looked like rain. Jim Petersby he said he calkilated them clouds wa mostly wind clouds and wouldn't amount to much. The fellers they continued to sot around and whittle and chat and the clouds come a-rollin up outen the west and bye and bye there come a awful glaring bolt of lightnm right down outen out-en the sky, as you might say, foUered by the loudest clap of thunder you most ever heard.. The bolt of lightnin was so awful bright that it most blinded blind-ed everybody out ia front of the store, and they all started for home a one man a haid as they could run and put down the winders and kicked the door. For the next half hour the awful display of lightnin which follered beg-gers beg-gers description. Seth Dewberry, our Other damage was did by the wind elsewhere. Ranse Smiley went out his back door to set the rain barrel under the spout and the wind blowed brick often the kitchen chimhley and the brick fell on Ranse's foot, the one which has th corn on, and Ranse says that corn has 'ached him ever sinst worsen a tooth. . - lion hearted town constable, couldn t do anything to strip ft. Seth said it beat any Pourth of July exhibishion of firework fire-work he ever seen. After the first two or three flashes Seth retired to his celler and crawled into a potato bin, and his wife couldn't indooce him to come upstairs until a hour after the storm was over. Mrv Hod Perkins as making Hod a shirt on the sowing machine at the time with the winder up right in front of her. and she says that one bolt f lightnin come in through the winder and s:ruck the macheen and glanced off and passed nut through another winder, but the chance are Mrs. Perkins Per-kins was skeert so bad 'ie didn't know what the was talkin about. , Bill Hepburn, our artistick blacksmith, black-smith, was working at his forge at the time and. Bill says a bolt come in the front door of the shop and played around the anvil and run up his leg and then bounded on right up through the roof. Bill has been showing folks a hole in the roof to prove it, hut everybody every-body krows that hok lias been there for fiv years or more. Bill was awful skrert. He throwd down his hammer and cut for home, and when he got there he sot down on his knees and prayed and promist his wife that he wouldn't never drink another drop of licker as Icng as he lived, being as he felt like a if he desired to live a better and nobullcr life. LATER Bill went to the Co. seat yesterday and got full a usual Ever sinst the storm Bud Hinckley, who ain't quite right' in hi- head, has been so nervous and worked up that he ain't had no pleasure outen life. Bud he ain't a mite afeard of the lightnin, but the awful claps of thnnder like to of skeert him plum to deth, and ever since the storm all you haft to say to him is "Boo!" to see him jump and yell and run for home. The next day after the storm, while Bud's mother went to hang up the dishpan after washing the dinner dishes, she let the dish pan fall and the noise skeert Bud so bad that he almost bad a fit and run outen the house hollering, "I've bee struck I I've |