Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1910 — LOWELL AND SHELBY “DRY” BY REMONSTRANCE ROUTE. [ARTICLE]

LOWELL AND SHELBY “DRY” BY REMONSTRANCE ROUTE.

Eagle Creek Township, Lake County, Temperance People File Success* ful Remonstrance. Lowell and Shelby and Eagle Creek township, Lake County, have by a majority said to be 27, remonstrated against the license of saloons and will be “dry” as fast as the prevailing licenses expire. There are about six saloons at Lowell, two at Shelby and one at Water Valley. The Shelby saloons are run by Jim Doty and H. Peterson and the Water Valley saloon by George Struble. Doty’s saloon is said to expire today, Monday, while Peterson’s will run for about a month. Niel Brown, an influential farmer and ranchman, is said to have been the chief pusher of the remonstrance in the neighborhood of Lowell. The saloon -men knew that the remonstrance was being circulated but they felt secure in their belief that there was a big majority in favor of the saloons. They were greatly surprised when they found that the remonstrance contained enough signatures to make it good, and they were further surprised to find that a number of people presumed to be friendly to the saloons had signed it. It is said that the better people of Shelby became disgusted at the constant string of

thirst crazed people that kept coming there, largly the trash of the surrounding dry territory. The saloons were dirty, almost filthy, there was a number of old hangers-on that scarcely ever left the saloon and there was .considerable lawlessness. As Shelby was a cross-roads town and there was no other loafing place there but the saloons many men put in their time there between trains and imbibed freely of the booze served by Doty and Peterson. Others went there purposely to get liquor and Shelby had built up a bad name that Mr. Brown and others thought it should not have. The remonstrance will remain in effect for two years. The surprise was as great at Lowell as it was at Shelby.