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Show BUSY BEES TAKE CHARGE OF A GROCERY STORE The Bees Took Possession of the Grocery Store. Minneapolis. In total disregard of the fact thnt It was Saturday and thnt customers on that day bought their supplies for over Sunday, n swarm of bees took possession of tho grocery store of M. H. Johnson, at Thirty-fourth Thirty-fourth street and Nlcolott avenue, and hold It against nil comers, for tho hoes had detected an open sugar bin and other sweets, and would brook no Interference In-terference in tholr plans. Ovor In tho vlclnltv of Median Homo there is an nplary, and. according accord-ing to bee fanciers, thu winged brigade which Invaded tho storo caino from tho Hothany hlvos. A broken window gavo tho foragers their chance, and beforo the clerks In thu store realized whore tho attacking party came from thoy wero driven Into tho streot. In the respite between tho rotreat of tho clerks and tho first attack on tho Invaders, tho boos continued to swarm through tho broken window, and when tho clorks advanced to tho chargo tho storo was woll filled with Insect occupants. All nttoruoon thu battle waged, and although tho clerks wero ablo, aftor a determined stand with brooms nnd other Implements of warfare, to handle tho orders which como In by telephone, tele-phone, thero was a decided lot-up In trade, and the majority of customers who personally conducted their marketing mar-keting tours stood on tho sidewalk outside and veiled their orders through tho open door. On tho next duy Mr. Johnson and his assistants, armed for tho fray and wennng nmciai ncoitofiDers costumes, cos-tumes, started In on a campaign of extermination that tho last stand ot tho beo warriors had boon overcomo and tho last assailant of thu sugar bin had succumbed to suporlor forco. Trndo h progressing as usual. |