, 1922-07-19
AS SEEN FROMThEW WATERMELON
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When Hams Jubilee Singers drove
up to the Irma and stopped, a large,
rompous, ebony-hued gent reared back
and commanded a bystander:
Tell Newton Use hyar,"
TaTG
We'd like to know how a letter ad-
dressed like this got in our BOX:
Wyoming Booze Paper
Cody, Wyo.
Y fTTf
When this section went dry it was,
as We recall, by a vote of about two
or three to one In the same ratio
1t would go wet again should 1t be
left to the wishes of the people if the
ballots now going through the postof-
ice in the test vote being polled by
the Literary Digest are any indica-
ton of local sentiment.
3 G1GT
Thomas Osborne, Jr., of Meeteetse
has announced his candidacy for the
Ifour-year term for county commission
er. The voters are in luck to have
the opportunity of voting for a man
like Mr.. Osborne for this position.
His opponent is S. A. Watkins. Mr..
Watkins, we are informed, is very
sanguine of his reelection.
Who was that ~giggled?
ddIT
We look to the Basin Rustler to
keep us informed on the grasshopper
situation, and it seldom disappoints
us. 1t has the same p~enchant for
grasshopper stories that we have for
snake stories.
Last week we learned that grass
hoppers ate up 80 acres Of beans on
Art Wrigley, and this week we read
that Alphonso Moncurs turned $50
head Of chickens loose on Is acres of
alfalfa and in ten days there was not
a single grasshopper left for a sam
pie.
A1-FaE
We should have included the
names of Harry Wizard, Sam Forrest
and Garlic Downing when mentioning
those who worked hard for the SIAM
pede without remuneration. Our pop
ular cop loaned his team and his pi-
ano and vas always On hand when
needed, while Mr.. Forrest, our near
water commissioner, was on the job
for hours taking tickets at Wolfville.
AS for Garlic Downing, he was every
where and space is too limited to nu-
merate the many things he did to help
the Stampede committee both at the
chutes and in the office.
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M~'goodness! Listen to what hap
pened down in Riverton last week.
Seems as If the more we hear about
these prohibftionists and reformers
who are bounding us into the Straight
and Narrow, the less respect we have
for them. Sorta looks as if an appall-
ing number of them are hypocrites
making a lot of noise about other peo-
pies shortcomings in order to cover
up their own activities.
Mr.. E. H. Luikart, president Of the
Farmers State Bank of Rivel.cn, has
been loud in his denunciation of those
who violated the Volstead Act, &C
cording to the papers in that locality.
He has stood for the strict enforce
nient of the prohibition law and mer-
CHESS in his attitude toward these
who violated 1t.
Without knowing, we take it he is
a Methodist.
Then, two weeks g last Friday,
while the sheriff was cached in the
shadow of the Masonic Temple of Riv-
erton waiting to grab a b%ootlegger, he
caught Mr.. Luikart rolling a barrel of
whiskey up a plank into the back
door of the bank building.
Ordinarily we would admire and
commend the presidents prudence in
putting it in a place of safe keeping
and regret the misfortune which over
tool him but in the circumstances we
cannot refrain from cackling gleefully.
1G1G
Archie Campbell. the part Indian
boy from Riverton who rode five buck
ing horses in one afternoon at the
Stampede and was knocked out twice,
is what is known among the "hands"
as a "ridin' fool" This is not intend
ed as disparagement but the last word
in praise.