Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1910 — Will Be Forced to Celebrate Without the Bottled Beer. [ARTICLE]

Will Be Forced to Celebrate Without the Bottled Beer.

An early morning fisherman today witnessed a sight that is a rare occurrence in a dry town like Rensselaer. He was sitting on the river bank near the business part of town, when two women appeared with baskets on the stone wall of the river bank and began hurling bottles of beer in the stream. He was helpless to rescue the precious fluid that was floating down stream and some lucky fisherman in the Kankakee will probably come across the bottles about the Fourth and celebrate in proper style. It is supposed that the beer was thrown into the stream by women who objected to their husbands celebrating the Fourth in this manner.