, 1923-03-07

us the following story:
Recently an inmate asked TO inter
view the warden. On coming to the
bars he said, "Mr. Warden. 1 have
just received word that my wife is
seriously ill-sick nigh unto death
and if l could get back some of the
good time that you have taken from
me / might get home before it is too
late"
The warden said, "My man, l have
just heard from your wife and she is
in her usual good health and says
that she doesn't ever want too look
upon your face again."
warden, may | talk to you as man
to man instead as of prisoner to War
DEM"
Certainly, ease your mind"
ado you know, warden, we are two
of the damnedest liars on record, I
never had a WIFE"
Having purchased the interest of
C. Conger, a job printer formerly
ment of the Enterprise, we now take
considerable pride in the fact that we
are its sole owner, and hope hat some
allowance will be made if we toot our
own horn a little.
This paper was in the hands of a
receiver when we acquired an interest
in it a little more than two years ago.
1t was about to give its last gurgle
and expire. 1t had a little adj
~ ,.ticipr NO rDt,nfu ~. rttu prtnfinn
its subscription list consisted chiefly
of persons who were dead, moved
away or had not paid since they first
subscribed for the paper, while to look
at its front page with poems entitled
Eternal Peace" and three column
clippings from the Literary Digest
as the leading news stories, vas to
weep.
Since that time we have purchased
all other interests, eliminated the
dead ones eliminating dead les is
our speciality and added hundreds of
live ones to the subscription list. The
Enterprise is now the official city and
county paper,.r receive sits share of the
local advertising, and for eternal
Peace" we have substituted the Wa
ter Wagon.
In addition, we have reduced the
mortgage against the paper to a min
imum, purchased a $1,000 Intertype
machine and bought a new building
to put it in. In view of the fact that
we had so little business training we
did not know a day book from a led
ger, and was so inexperienced in pub
fishing a country newspaper that we
tried to read the congressional rec
ords, we do not feel that we have
done so badly, though we hope to do
better when we are-older.
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How strangely names run among the
reformers. There was DR.. Swallow,
who once was the prohibition candi-
date for president; DR.. Triple also
ran for office in that party; DR.. Bowl
by is out for the prohibition of thea
tres on Sunday, and Col. Mutt has
gone to California to stamp out the
coke hounds.
Word was received from Miami,
Florida, a short time ago that Dem
~ocratic leaders from many sections
of the country were meeting there
with James NJ. Cox, former governor
of Ohio and presidential nominee in
1920, and that the issues in the COM
ing campaign were being freely dis
cussed. The name of Governor Smith
of New York was mentioned as u
possible candidate and one for whom
there was n stronp santimNrt nil ovar
the country.
To refuse to admit that prohibition
is the big question in the United
States today is the height of absurd
ity, to our way of thinking.
What with Samuel Gompers an
nouncing that the American Fedora
ton of labor is preparing to get into
the fight in earnest, with the anti
prohibition societies enrolling thou
sands of members, with revolt against
the law and disgust with the kind of