The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, January 11, 1906 Knoxville Journal: If anyone imagines for a minute that the poor inebriates that are soon to be sent to our new $200,000 boozotorium are to see a real tough time of it sitting on three-legged stools and sleeping on hard pallets, they can get that delusion both dispelled and expelled by visiting the home during these days of preparation. The furniture for the different wards which is now coming by the carload lots consists of the bedsteads, good soft mattresses oscillating springs with the humps eliminated and the elasticity perfectly adjusted, rocking chairs of the latest pattern with glove-fitting "cobbler seats," washstands with real beveled French plate glass mirrors, and all the other nicknacks in the way of furnishings which the heart could desire. The fellow who had that dream about our whiskacure being a "drunkards' prison" with 10 hours per day in a "dark coal mine and nights spent in cheerless cells," would do well to wind up the machine and dream the whole thing! over again. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert September 20, 2004 [email protected]