The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-07
LETTER FOUND DURING
ARDMORE'S WATER SHORTAGE
by W. X.

10y W. Is.
Dere Pop:-PleeZe excuse the riteing
becauz my eands are full NV mud
becauz l haven't washed them fer 9
days hecauz there wuz no water be-
cauz the top of the city lake is now
even with the notion becauz the
source of the water supply at the
l1icry erik is dry becauz there wuz
no rain 10 fill it up becauz the city
administrashun did not build or give
a damn so that they mite store water
ther becauz-well, you know why.
My face feels like as if there wuz
a sheet of fly-paper stuck all over it.
also becauz Of the aforesed reasons.
The other day there wuz a fire
and when | heard about it, rushed
home and filled the bathtub with water
while the high pressure was on. But
when / got in | sank in feet NV
mud which was part of the feet
Of water And after my landlord
has succeeded in extracting me from
an impending dirty death, | procured
a set of mud chanes and again waded
INTO the mud bath. / waved myself
after the bath and found that l wuz
twenty pounds heavier than before
took the mud wallow.
went 10 the moovies that mite.
and when / tried TO take a seat.
the manajur told me to get up in the
galury and sed, I'VE don't allow col
ored persons down here"
There wuz "a rush on the haber-
dashree stores when the water wuz
cut off becauz everybody wanted TO
buy high collars. In fact 90 out NV
every hundred men on the street, in
clooding men who had never wore
high collars befor in their life, wuz
wearing them. | can't rite YOU the
the reason becauz this is not that kind
of a letter, but it wasn't becauz they
wanted TO dress up or becauz the
weather was cool, becauz 1t wuzn't,
for it wuz hot day. mite hint that
their necks wuz not a natural color.
According to reports the county
officials suddenly decided that II wuz
time for them TO test out the liquor
which had been captoored in rades
by the seruff. and which wuz sed 10
be stored in the court house. Now
don't tell anybody I'm riteing YOU
about this but they say that there
will be a crate lack of evidence when
the trials of the boo;leggers comes
up
The reason | say, don't tell anybody
about the liquor story Is becauz a
city official is soolng the locul paper
fer $4,000 becauz the editor spoke
about the water that wuzn't on the
shorcs NV Ardmore, and II the coun-
try people find out | said that the
choc wuzn't on the shelves In the
court house, they mite 500 me fer
a similoor amount
Dooring the water shortaj the roof
Nv the city barn burned to ashez. And
after the fire. the water commits
shuner threw out his chest and sez
We'll, we got the water to the fire
fifteen secunds after il started"
And a week later another commits
shuner seq. THE cause OF the fire
was doc to the fact that there wuz
no water with which TO wet down some
garbaj in the bilding the nite before
the fire. And so, pop, you see that
water is used for several purposez.
red an article In magazeen wot
sez that In Switzerland there wuz
a town there wuz a similoor water
shortage. and II being n Distress
ing affair but the people are meeting
the emergency bravely by having to
drink beer and wine" Well, / dare
say that the peepul here are lust AZ
brave. only they haven't got the same
TO show It.
Well, pop. crave little humor-
Gus excitement. so I guess III 20 up
to the city eomisshuners meeting.
Yer sun,
Michael Sehlimiel.