Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1918-01-27

AS AAAAO R0ASacs
/ And crossed Miami county.
At the town of Osawatomie
I received a telegraphic message
From my love at Nicodemus
Hasten with the money" said the
telegraphic message.
Hasten with the money you are
bringing from my uncle.
From my Uncle Jethro. in Missouri.
For the man that holds the mortgage.
Banker Jasper Grinder. who holds the
fiendish mortgage.
/ Has said he viii foreclOSe it
And take away the homestead at noon
on Saturday.
I Or else III have 10 marry him.
To keep him from foreclosing.
Marry Banker Jasper Grinder to Keep
him from foreclOsing.
wQnld hate TO marry Grinder.
But on the other hand.
would have to lose the whole alfalfa
crop
Hasten with the money.
From my Uncle Jethro.
Hasten to your true love. Miss Elvira
Simpkins,
/ At Nicodemus, Kansas"
T Three hundred miles away
Was Nicodemus. Kansas.
Nicodemus. Graham county.
Not so far from Happy. Kansas. Z"
Could l do it in a flivver
In ten hours9
From Osawatomie started with a
burst Of speed
That carried me to QuenemO.
To Quenemo. in Usage county, Kan
i1f-o saS.
At the rate OF 40 miles an hour .
At a garage in Quenemo
I paused for gasoline.
At Quenemo. in Usage county. Kan
Is saS
But, the man that ran the place
With shrill bucOlic smoker
Said: There amt no gasoline,
Z The gasoline in Kansas
/ Has all been took and contributed.
I LeastwayS, Communicated,
just one hour ago.
BY order OF the governor.
I The governor OF Kansas.
On account OF military operations. -
No gasoline in Kansas,
And three hundred miles away. my
love.
Ny love. Elvira Simpkins.
Was waiting for the money had got
from Uncle Jethro
To save the home at NicOdemus
Prom the clutch of Jasper Grinder,
Il viii telegraph the money! |
shouted
Nth n flaSh 81 ;r-,s-,tso- = .
But the station agent told me.
There amt telegraph nor nothing
Runs into Nicodemus.
To Nicodemus. Kansas.
AS fur as can see in this here book
And I looked at the wire from Elvira
again
And saw it had been sent from Happy.
Kansas.
And all the time the precious
Minutes fluttered BY.
Banker Jasper Grinder. in Nioodemus.
Kansas.
Minute after minute.
Was approaching nearer TO the hour
of his desire.
| could hear him chuckle.
The dry and throaty chuckle that vii
lage bankers ehuckle
In the semi-arid regions -
Another inspiration came 10 me and I
cried:
4 will run my flivver
To .NicOdemus. Kansas.
On alcohol. by heck,
I can make the engine in nv little
flivver
/ Run to NicOdemuS. Kansas.
On alcohol. by Henry,"
But the crowd that gathered round me
LATED and LATED and laffed :
I They amt no alcohol in Kansas"
Said the crowd between its chOEiles-
kansas is a dry state.
I It's prohibition Kansas.
And you'll never get to NicOdemus.
[ Graham county. Kansas
Just then the village topper.
I A gentle creature and decaged.
Thrust into my hand gallon
OF Suffers stomach Bitters.
He handed me four big quarts
OF Suffers stomach Bitters.
And l poured EN- IN the tank and left
the town of Quenemo. with the
! engine doing lovely
And the flivver going strong
And I reached the town OF SSiddy.
/ The town OF Skidiy. Kansas. in Nor
ris county. Kansas.
And ! drew up by the drug store and
I ] yelled
For suffers stomach Bitters
i must reach Elvira Simpkins. IN
Nicodemus. Kansas.
I Ere the clock strikes Il
Give me hitters, give me bitters,
Fill the tank with hitters, Tor I race
20 raise the mortgage
But the druggist said; There's been
q run on bitterSi
Considerable collie in this watermelon
weather,
How about StewrOOna ."
On a gallon Of Stewroons I ran from
Skidiy. Kansas.