Eureka Reporter | 1906-04-27 | Page 4 | Had Legitimate Use for It

HAD legitimate USE FOR IT farirer needed intoxicant for me chan cal purposes in rural maine when one has an especially hard or disagreeable basli to p rford one calls in the neigh bors at such times the work pel formed Is done without money and without price except that the host must provide abundant refreshments both nourishing and intoxicating at such times the winter supply of alre wood Is cut the timber felled and piled the frames ot buildings raised often the host has trouble to find the intoxicants maine being a state this was clancy s dilemma when he entered the city agency at danger front of him a sign hung liquor sold for use in sickness or tor mechanical purposes only I 1 want two gallons of old rum he announced the agent pointed wearily to the sign I 1 saw that said clancy I 1 been reading it are you sick ino got a prescription no what do you want it tor queried the agent i got to have it replied clancy cheerfully for mechanical purposes im going to raise a barn