Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1914 — House Lined With Honey Found in Southern City [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

House Lined With Honey Found in Southern City

MOBILE, ALA. —Mobile haß a real, sure-enough “honey" residence. It is .At the corner of Kentucky and Marine streets, and carpenters say that the walls are practically interlined with honey. Several weeks ago the floor-

lng in the attic of the building, now occupied hy Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Gray, and- owned by Mrs. Annie B. Fields, began to show unmistakable signs of rotting, although it was far from the ground. Before the floor was taken up, honey began to appear through the boards, and despite efforts to mop the sticky stuff up, it continued to appear. Mrs. Fields was notified and after being told about the honey she recalled that about five years ago while

she was living In the house she had a large flower garden in the yard and that it attracted a colony of bees to the place. When tiie flowers were removed the bees also disappeared. The honey-, makers had discovered an abandoned water spout and through this they gained access to the walls and beneath the weatherboarding they proceeded to -make pound after pound of honey. •- ■' ' i A carpenter was summoned and on the orders of the owner he cut a hole in the Bide of the house and attempted to smoke the bees out For his trouble hp was Btung severed times. Between twenty-five and thirty pounds of honey waß found near the hole, and this was removed, but it is believed that several hundred pounds must be in other parts of the walls. The carpenters are of the opinion that a dozen or more colonies of bees inhabit the Gray home. f ‘ ~