The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-31
COURT OF INQUIRY
INTO ALLEGED BOOZE
PREVALENCE IN CITY

Behind locked doors, In strictly exec.
utive manner, Mayor Freeman con.
Quoted u court OF inquiry Friday morn.
ing in an effort TO ascertain from
still with which certain ones of Ard.
more's citizenry have been irrigating
their interiors during the hot and dusty
weather since the national drouth be.
came effective. July |.
Notwithstanding the popular assump.
tion that the benevolent congress of the
U. s. A., backed up by the concurrent
votes of the people at large has sent
forth the decree and issued the ultlmat
um that bone dry shall this nation be-
bone dry to remain until the cycles of
time cease to revoute the mayor as
serts. and the records Of the municipal
court bear out the assertion. that an
oasis exists somewhere within the city
OF Ardmore, or within the territory in
close juXtaposition thereunto.
And it is said that the records of the
court will show that drunkenness has
materially increased during the past two
weeks. Such being the case, the mayor
assumes that the inebriation is not of
the spontaneous sort, but believes that
II comes through the regular, good old.
fashioned manner of absorbing and lap.
ping up the distillate which drips from
the worm.
In other words the mayor. and the
police department as well, believe that
there is II fountain filled with conver-
SltiOn pf
cealed behind the doors which are un.
barred and thrown ajar to all who have
the necessary open sesame
1t is also believed that some of those
who know where the fount of hilarty
bubbles forth, may be persuaded to di.
vulge that secret to the officers. and
1t has been whispered that some of
those have already impaired valuable
information which will be used. at an
early date, by the enforcement officers
of the city the county and the federal
governments.
Be that as it may, however, it has
become a patiently well established fact
that the officers are after the violators
of the liquor laws, and that they are
going to get the fellows goat who is
making the dope, as well as the goats,
the whole drove of them. of the ones
who are putting the drunk maker into
general circulation.
What took place at the inebrietto in |
quirendo, on Friday, is thus far a secret
of that dark and mysterious kind of
which the romancers prate. the poets /
sing and the historians of political |
economy write.
This secret, however, is not being |
kept from the masses in the same man |
ner in which the secret of the constitu |
ton of the League of Nations was at |
tempted to be concealed from the rank |
and file of the popular ma ajority but it |
is kept under lock and key in order
that the ones who have been fractur
ing the amendment to the constitution
of the great American aggregation Of
states may not be tipped off as to who
told the secret and why he told it,
The secret is also remanded to soil
tary confinement, there to remain be
hind bolts ANA bars until after such
time as due process in the shape Of
signed and sealed and delivered subpoe
mas, shall be served upon the witnesses
wanted to testify for the prosecution.
In the meanwhile it is currently ru-
mored that officers of the state and
nation, as well as those of the city
and county, are looking for the possible
Illicit and ilegitimate dstillery which
is blossoming as the rose and, like the
rose, shedding its fragrance on the des-
ert air.
And, speaking along these lines, the
officers aver that while many rose
may be born TO blush unseen the illicit
has never been invented, in
stalled, operated and made the home of
the pomme de vim, the pomme de corn
or the pomme de rye that did not, soon
er or later, uncover its rosy features to
the rude and ravishing glances of the
inquisitive laws officers