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FortWorth, Texas, August 29, 1907.

According to a statement made in the Fort Worth Star on the
evening of August 28th by someone in regard to the ringing of the
old-fashioned cow-bell, which is used as a means of calling the
hungry people to their meals, and which statement was made be-
fore the City Commission,asking that it be discontinued as it
was unberable to those who were in business for blocks around,
and that it caused business men in that locality to neglect their
business during the time it was rung;

So,according to these statements, We, the Undersigned bus-
iness men of the Court-house Square, will and do sign a peti-
tion to the effect that the Cow-Bell has not and does not bother
either merchant or business men either of [men?] in any way. And we further
state that the Proprietor of the Cow-Bell Restaurant has as
much right to use a cow-bell as some people have a
triangle or a plow point or a spring from a street car.