Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1911 — CARPENTER TOWNSHIP WILL REMAIN DRY. [ARTICLE]

CARPENTER TOWNSHIP WILL REMAIN DRY.

Remonstrance Filed From Carpenter Township and the Second and Third Wards In Rensselaer. A saloon remonstrance was filed from Carpenter township Saturday containing 288 names. This was more than sufficient to keep the saloons out of that township for the next two years and the commissioners so held at their meeting Monday add made their finding a matter of record. Remonstrances were also filed from the second and third Wards in Rensselaer, which will shut out the saloons here for the same period. The remonstrance from the second ward contained 90 names and from the third 114 names. Rensselaer is now covered by blanket remonstrance in all the wards and will continue dry. A petition is on file from Wheatfield township asking that an election be ordered held there. At the time of going to press no action had been taken, but there is little doubt that an election will be ordered, as the commissioners, under he law, are compelled to order such an election, when the necessary petition is filed. At the last county option election Wheatfleld voted “wet” and it is thought by some that another election will result the same way. Miss Ada Stockton spent Sunday with her parents near Brook.