Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1909 — MORE USED TO THE SCENT OF BOOZE. [ARTICLE]

MORE USED TO THE SCENT OF BOOZE.

A nubbin ridger from Jasper county saturated through and through with the odor of the skunk and muskrat, entered Dr. Solt’s office yesterday and demanded 50 cents worth of morphine. Dr. fearing the man contemplated suicide frankly told him so and refused to sell him the dope. Sir, do I look like a man who would kill himself? Lord, no, said Doc, but the way you smell one would think you had been dead six months.— North Judson News. One couldn’t stay around North Judson over two or three hours until he would reek with a stench stronger than the latest packing house scandal or a Salome dance, and one day’s confinement there would send him in search of a dose of rat poison.