Show For the past several days there has been tumble excitement in Bingville it looked like a manufacturing industry backed by prominent capitalists from the Co I seat was to locate its manufactory in our midst and by so doing furnish fur fur- nish employment to them as aint got no jobs in Bingville and also make this town a hive of industry as you might say so that it would take its place amongst the theother theother theother other big manufacturing towns townsand townsand townsand and but as we go goto goto goto to press it dont don't now look as if this great industry would build its plant here at all One day last week Mr Ezra Plummer and l Osgood both well known kno capitalists of the Co seat visited Bing Bingville ille and conferred conferred conferred con con- with our town Selectmen These gentlemen said they were looking for a place to locate a glue factory and if sufficient s inducement inducement inducement induce induce- ment was offered by Bingville it would come here Our Selectmen desired to know what inducement was expected and the gentlemen from the Co seat then said if Bingville would donate to them 15 acres of land on the shore of Snake Crick near Bingville where water waterpower waterpower waterpower power would be convenient and also make them a present of a bonus bones of 2500 they would build their factory here Cy Hoskins chairman of bf the Selectmen called a mass mass' meeting of Bingville's citizens s in the TownHall Town TownHall TownHall Hall last Monday night for the purpose of donating this land and raising the 2500 Cy was big in for it He said it was a opportunity ity that Bingville oughtn't t to let git away from her Cy opened the meeting with a speech in which he said it was the duty of the citizens to raise money enough to pay for 15 acres of land in to the 2500 before they ever left the Town Hall Cy said being as he owned considerable land along Snake Crick if them as was present present present pres pres- ent would raise money he would sell them 15 acres of land landat landat at the ridiculous low price of a per acre Cy said he would also like to hear hear- the matter discussed discussed discussed dis dis- cussed pro and con before the sub- sub was took and then he hebet set bet down Some was in favor of a factor factory y i coming to Bingville and others was not Speeches was made by Amos Hillyer J. J of the P. P Eph Higgins P. P M. M I. I Seth Dewberry town constable Bill Hepburn our blacksmith and Lem Brown our expert car carpenter enter Bill Hepburn said he was in favor avor of ofa a factory coming here and would subscribe a to have it come In fact all them as spoke up to this time was in favor of the factory factory factory fac fac- tory coming and they offered to subscribe amounts from 75 76 cents up Jp as high as 6 Suddenly Hez Rez Underwood who had been setting away back In hi the hall taking in r everything riz to his feet and andI spoke as I What in Sam ve want we-want vant vanta a gl factory in Bingville for What good would a glue factory do us us-it us it wouldn't do us no good They have got a glue factory overto over overto overto to Hardscrabble and ever it was built Hardscrabble folks have been wishing it had been built else If them present who is so anxious to have a glue I factory in Bingville could only get geta I a whiff of that glue factory over overto overto overto to Hardscrabble some warm day I when the wind is favorable I cal- cal they wouldn't want no glue factory in Bingville We dont don't need no glue factory here so long longas as we have Wes Ves Woodruff our expert hunter and ard trapper who I ketches skunks for a living living living-in in I my opinion Wes he answers every purpose of a glue factory I Iam Iam Iam am against this glue factory conning coming coming com conn- ing to Bingville first last and all the time Hez then set down others heard When the present this they sort of begin to pull puB in their horns and them as had subs subscribed subscribed sub sub- I s scribed to bring a glue factory here made more speeches and said they now saw the matter in a different different different dif dif- ferent light and couldn't conscientiously conscientiously conscientiously subscribe for a glue factory factory factory fac fac- tory to locate in Bingville As chairman of the meeting Cy got mad and hammered on the table with his fists until he nearly his knuckles but it wasn't no use nobody would listen to him By and by all of them as was present went home in disgust and it is our editorial opinion that when a glue factory locates in Bingville it will be a very cold day indeed |