The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, January 28, 1909 ROBERT G. GORMAN, of Pleasant Township, spoke as follows, in conversation with a group of his friends: "I expect to go with a car load of chattels to Wyoming next week where I took a homestead and where I also purchased an acreage. After building a home I will come back, take another car load out and about the same time by family will start for the west. While my mother still holds the old homestead farm none of the name remains in Lucas County. * * * Said A.H. MCCOLLOUGH of the firm of McCollough & Brown: "Horses are certainly good property these days and the farmers are receivng gilt edged prices. Very recently we shipped three car loads from Chariton to the markets and two of these loads averaged over $200 to the head paid to those from whom bought. One very fine mare cost us $400 even money. This is what I call a good showing and we are not only here occasionally but 365 days in the year and certainly facts like these tell a mighty satisfactory story." * * * "Graft seems to be a national policy, just now," said TANDY ALLEN to the Leader, on Saturday, "from the highest officials in government to the most lowly, and it is non partisan -- they all seem to be in it. This must be rectified. And another thing needed is a curtailment of expenditures in our State. Excise demands are becoming out of proportion to the producing qualities of the things assessed." * * * "No, I was not playing pitch," explained JAY J. SMYTH, as he came down a stairway leading to a professional man's office, Sunday, "but I don't think it wrong to play pitch -- in fact I have played pitch in my time -- and may again, but that is a matter for the future to determine. However, I know several other fellows who can also play pitch, E.S. WELLS, J.A. CAMPBELL, CLINT MILLTHORPE, PHIL HAHN and others. They don't win as many games as I do -- but still they can play pitch. I think it's alright to play pitch if one does not gamble." * * * "I have a boil on the back of my neck, which is quite annoying," were the words of D.A. ENSLOW, Monday. "I guess I will go home, fill a beer bottle with hot water and poultice it; that is the best thing for a boil on earth. What will I do with the beer, you ask? Well, the bottle is all that is prescribed for boils. I really enjoy an occasion b -- oil and this is the third one in the same place." --------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert May 6, 2005 iggy29@rnetinc.net