316-350-5841
  • Wheel of Fortune Ranch
  • About Donna Penley
  • Contact
  • Interview Real People, Real Life
  • Riding Lessons
  • What's In A Name
  • Western Novels / Poetry
  • Petting Ranch
  • Get Involved / Volunteer
  • Ranch Products / Services
  • Blog
  • Slide Show
  • Rehoming A Pet
  • Ranch Videos
  • 10 Commandments of the Ranch
  • Back To The Country
  • Chicks In School

CARRIE NATION

7/2/2016

 
CARRIE NATION
By Donna Penley
 
Carrie Nation was from Medicine Lodge, was a sufragette;
Came to Wichita with her hatchet - one of a quartet
Of women who hated demon run, and went on a campaign,
To smash up bars and gamin’ places, and herein lies her fame.
Carrie and the others, to that bar that day they went;
T’was in December, 1900.  With their eyes as hard as flint
They entered that dark den, and Carried spied a paintin’;
A nude behind the bar, and weak and nearly faintin’
She smashed that paintin’ with her hatchet.  Never missed a lick;
Then to a mirror hangin’ near she also did the trick.
The Sheriff, Mr. Simmons, he came on the run;
But, he didn’t get there until Carrie’s deed was done.
She and the ladies wrecked that bar.  Tore it up real good!
Swung their hatchets for the cause of put-down womanhood.
Carrie and the others were taken to the Wichita jail;
The other three, they bonded out.  Two Hundred Dollars bail.
Carrie turned the bondsman down.  Said in jail she’d rather be;
She said she’d rather rot in jail for an eternity.
If it would bring attention to the cause that she held dear;
She felt that many families were harmed by booze and beer.
Carrie’s husband, David, a lawyer he did hire;
Filed for a change of venue.  The judge fought it to the wire.
Her lawyer tried to visit her - so they might plot defense;
But, the Sheriff called a quarantine.  Said that smallpox had commenced.
They held a hearin’ without her.  Made her lawyer fightin’ mad;
There was no smallpox outbreak.  Carried Nation had been had!
Carrie then decided that she’d consider bail;
Tried to pay the Two Hundred gold - but that effort failed.
They finally got a jury up and took the case to trial,
But the jury ended up bein’ hung.  Most voted their denial.
Carried spent more jail time than her sentence would have done;
Finally bonded out with Fifty Dollars in June, 1901.
We must remember Carrie, ‘cause she had a lot of grit.
She fought against a man’s world, and made the best of it!

Comments are closed.

    Author

    Donna Penley is a Cowgirl Poet with deep Kansas roots who has been writing cowboy poetry for over twenty five years. She is a real Cowgirl and an ex-barrel racer.

    Donna writes about all phases of cowboy life, with lots of humor woven in. Her poem Carrie Nation hangs in the Carrie Nation Museum in Medicine Lodge, Kansas.

    As a benefit for the blind and sight impaired, Great Empire Broadcasting produced a cassette tape of her poetry and distributed it to all Kansas public libraries (
    No Preservatives Added : a collection of cowboy poetry).

    Archives

    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    July 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016

    RSS Feed

Donna on wheel of fortune game show

From game show to sanctuary, animals and children get second chance (Wichita Eagle Article and Video)

​pHOTOGRAPHY bY SCOTT wRIGHT:      www.thewrightway.smugmug.com/

We Would Love to Have You Visit Soon!   PLEASE CALL FIRST.   316 350 5841

Wheel Of Fortune Ranch, Inc: A Non-Profit Foundation
501(c)(3)  EIN: 81-2598456
 
“For it is in giving that we receive.”  - St. Francis of Assisi
Donations Gratefully Received 
  • Wheel of Fortune Ranch
  • About Donna Penley
  • Contact
  • Interview Real People, Real Life
  • Riding Lessons
  • What's In A Name
  • Western Novels / Poetry
  • Petting Ranch
  • Get Involved / Volunteer
  • Ranch Products / Services
  • Blog
  • Slide Show
  • Rehoming A Pet
  • Ranch Videos
  • 10 Commandments of the Ranch
  • Back To The Country
  • Chicks In School