Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang, Vol. II. No. 17, February, 1921
Moe Thompson’s Masterpiece
Captain Billy’s
Whiz Bang
OUR MOTTO:
“Make It Snappy”
February, 1921 Vol. II. No. 17
Published Monthly by
W. H. Fawcett,
Rural Route No. 2
at Robbinsdale, Minnesota
Entered as second-class matter May 1, 1920, at the post office atRobbinsdale, Minnesota, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Price 25 cents $2.50 per year
“We have room for but one soul loyalty and that isloyalty to the American People.”—Theodore Roosevelt.
Copyright 1921
By W. H. Fawcett
Edited by a Spanish and World War Veteran and dedicated
to the fighting forces of the United States.
Drippings from the Fawcett
By CAPTAIN BILLY
Along about the first of September last year, mycellar supply gave out and on the second day Ihad a look of languor like a homesick bum.Then it was that I met my old “Turk” friend, Casey,who immediately shanghaied me while he was cockeyedon a mixture of fusel oil, barbed wire, turpentine,tuba, rotgut, red-eye, wood alcohol, ether and dynamite.In fact, his mixture would make the Dove ofPeace challenge the American Eagle to mortal combat.
Casey is a vagrant minstrel of human interest andI was only too glad to accept of an invitation to joinhim at his country home in Golden Valley. But here itis necessary to explain that Golden Valley is differentthan most communities in these good old dry UnitedStates. In Golden Valley it doesn’t appear to be necessaryto distill the corn. Nearly every shock containsits gallon jug hidden away in the darkened recesses.The farmers merely leave the empty receptacle andcome back later to find it has been mysteriously filled.
Well, friends and fellow-countrymen, Casey and Isurely worked hard that night in the corn fields andabout the last thing I can remember was Casey mumblinga story about a colored family in St. Paul named[4]Henderson—man, wife and two grown daughters, whohad been suspected of bootlegging for some time.
“There is also a coon in St. Paul named Johnson,”Casey e