Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1913 — MONNETT HOTEL AT EVANSTON A BEEHIVE [ARTICLE]

MONNETT HOTEL AT EVANSTON A BEEHIVE

‘Reporter Makes Good Story Out of Small Incident—Hotel Built by Fletcher Monnett. •- « ■ i i * The Monnett Hotel at Evanston, a subert) of Chicago, was erected by Fletcher Monnett, a former Benssela v er citizen, now deceased, but the-bostlery still bears his name. A swarm of bees took refuge in a room at the hotel Sunday and a reporter for The Record-Herald mokes the following story out of the incident: Patrons of the Monnett Hotel, 1834 Chicago avenue, Evanston, passed a sleepless night in sting proof beds, beseiged by an army of bees, which not only had taken possession of the rooms of the hotel, but had taken up a habitation in the walls and between the floors as well. On Sunday the scouts of the besieging army were seen reconnoitering about the place. Shortly before noon the queen bee led a cloud of her buzzing followers in the attack. N They poured through the . open window of a room occupied by David Hanson, a traveling man. Hanson, to his sorrow, tried to fight them off with a fly swatter. He was stung in a score of places. After their successful attack upon Ifcanson, the bees continued their Invasion. They found a hole in an uppojr floor where a heater pipe «onruw?ted, passed between tht flooring find spread throughout the walls. Failing to' lure them out by the usual methods, the hotel owners last night obtained several bee hives and filled them with honey combs. A hole was cut in the floor and the entrance to the hives was placed over it. It was hoped that the honey would lure the bees into the traps.