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Show on the roads until lale fait as usual, and then being as it be so late they will probably wait until the follermg summer. Lafe Whittacre broke the big blad oaten his pocket kniie cutting kind mg wood with it totlier morning. Why don't you use axe, Lafe that's what a ax is for, 'not a knife. Hen Weathersby desire us to say that he ia all out of motquiter screens, but expects to have in another fine tin next week. If you who ain't got no screens as yet can put up with the mosquitert just a few days longer Hen will help you - out Patronize home trade, even if it's a inconvenience to do so. , Solon Tripp has been limpin for a -week and toth night Solon happend to think to look into his shoe when he took it off in the ev'g. and what wa his eonsternashlon to find a sharp nail sticking up on the Inside about half an inch. Then Solon know'd what made him limp. Mrs. Lige Creen papered her front parlor all herself from her butter money which she made lat winter. It is a good job, too, and looks real nice, Dave Smiley purchased a empty mo-lasse mo-lasse barl from Hen Weathersby for . 75 eta. last week, and then Dave hrt up the barl on th stove and blamed if " be didn't get two gallon of molasse outen it. When Hen found this h charged Dirt up with the molasses, but Dave says when he pays Hen for thos molasses it will be the coldest day Bingville ever seen. Jabex Crura had a cow to have I ealfs last week. Who can beat thia " for cow harin 2 calfs at once? They are both healthy and doing well as could be expected tinder the circumstances. Personals & Locals Miit What we need at w go to press is rain, but we have notised that we don't git everything we nerd in this world. Several hens have been stole from our midst by foxes lately. A hen is too much of a hickshury to be et up by s thievin fox. Let this be stopped. F.b Simpson varnished his buggy and left it standing nut in front of his barn to dry last Tuesday, and he hadn't enny more than got through the job until up come that wind storm and blowed the varnish so full of dust that Kb will haft to go to work and sandpaper it all off again and do the job over. Eb says it most makes him sick to think of it. . Lon Peters had a three-year-old colt to step on his foot while leading the animal lo water last week, and it made Lon so allfired mad that he hauled off and kicked ti e colt in the ribs, and the colt pulled the halter strap outen Lon's hand and run off. and he didn't find the brute for to days and then had to pay for its keep. Miss Mary Ann Whittacre has purchased pur-chased material for a dimity dress at Hen Weathersby'a store and will have it made np soon as she can decide what is the latent style. Rufr Atkins went to bed late tother night and was so sleepy that he forgot to blow out his candle, and as a result it burnt out and filled the room with wick smoke, and Lon woke up and hollered hol-lered 'Tire!" and disturbed all the neighbors in the vicinity before he realized what was the matter. Then he went to bed and went to sleep again, but from that time until morning people kept knocking on the door below to find out partickler about the fire, and Lon jdidn t scarcely git any rest all night But it serves bim right for hollering "Fire!" We haven't noticed that the town Selectmen Se-lectmen have done any work on the roads so far this summer. We calkilate the town Selectmen won't do any work |