Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1917 — ROAR LIKE DOZEN NIAGARAS [ARTICLE]

ROAR LIKE DOZEN NIAGARAS

So Says Young Man With a Bee In His Ear. Canton, Ill.—With a bee in his ear and several more angrily buzzing about his head with their bayonets leveled and intent on a charge in mass, Floyd Hammond of the Newman store made a lively getaway when tapping a bee tree on the farm of his father, T. W. Hammond, near Bryant. He and his father were cutting down the tree when one of the disturbed inhabitants alighted on Floyd’s ear. The bee refused to be brushed off and insisted Instead on crawling inside out of sight. The elder Hammond Insisted that no bee was in there, but the buzzing sounded like the roar of a dozen Niagaras to the clerk. Some cold water was poured Into his ear and out came Mr. Bee, still much alive. Floyd says he feels none the worse for the experience.