The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-10-10
IN THE EYE OF THE CAMERA
By X. o'D.Ler

"Wine and beers opposed by
Methodist preacher" is the flaming
headline in a contemporary. That
is a startling piece of news. We
wonder what caused the brother to
get that way.
A Bonar Law, an English
brother who it is expected will try
and succeed Lloyd George as pre-
mier of England, has created some
thing approaching sensation by
suggesting that England follow the
general attitude of the United
States and devote attention to safe
guarding the immediate interests
of the empire. Mr.. Law is in
favor of the immediate withdrawal
Of the English troops of occupation
from Germany and let France take
care Of herself, unless the latter
comes into line with the British
policy in the near east.
Down in Latimer county Okla
homa a preacher mounted to the
pulpit with loaded gun, which he
unostentatiously laid alongside the
Bible and then proceeded to the
expounding of the gospel. This was
the way the parson answered
threat telling him that he would not
be permitted to hold services. After
the preacher read his text a squad
of men attired in the regalia of the
Ku Klux Khan quietly filed into
church and occupied pews, and
from then on things were so quiet
in that church that when the
preacher would pause for breath,
the shores of a baby asleep in a
house a block distant from the
church, disturbed the meeting.
Late news dispatches set us at
rest over a matter that has been
giving us some worry. Baby Guy
Stillman, whose legitimacy has been
question of dispute between his
mother and supposed father, for
some weeks past, and who has been
quite sick, is reported much better.
California prohibition enforce
ment officers have just siezed 400,-
900 gallons of wine from Sonoma
country wineries. Wineries do
you get that? And they had on
hand 100000 gallons before the
officers discovered that they were
doing business. The chances are
that the owners had distributed as
much as six or seven quarts before
the booze hounds grabbed them.
The Standard Oil company Of
New York has just declared a divi-
dend of 200 per cent. This is
practicularly interesting to us as it
gives us cause to reflect over what
we would do If we owned half Of
its stock.
at is terrible crime," says the
Tonopah Times, ''to charge James
G. Scrugham with spending more
money than his predecessor"
'Twould be, dear heart, if the
charge were not backed up by in
controvertible proof.
Murder will outw The Tonopah
Times releases the cat from the bag
thuswise: soften before the in
terested parties to hearing could
leave the court room or homestead
where they had given evidence,
Scrugham was off in a cloud Of
dust" That is the principal reason
for complaint: Scrugham kicked
up lot of dust and the people
have tired Of a dust-fogged at
mosphere.
From Washington comes the news
that selected seed corn, during the
year 1921, was planted on 1,600,-
900 acres of land in this country.
We are not going to say that the
authority that issued that informa-
ton deliberately falsifed, but we
do not believe it, at all. It just
can't be true-there's nothin' to it.
Else, why, is there so much blamed
poor corn whiskey on the market?
Selected corn-faugh! Two laughs,
in fact.