Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1912 — License Granted to Run A Saloon at Wheatfield. [ARTICLE]

License Granted to Run A Saloon at Wheatfield.

George W. Tilton, of Wheatfield, whose application for a saloon license was rejected a year ago by the county commissioners on the ground that there were not a thousand people in Wheatfield township and who carried the case to the circuit court, receiving e reversal of the commissioners when the case was tried recently at Knox, was In Rensselaer this Monday morning and was granted a license. This will be the only saloon in Jasper county, all others having been voted or remonstrated out. Even the temperance people at Wheatfield seem to think that a licensed saloon Wlll be better than the bootlegging methods that have existed unmolested for a long time, and all say that George Tilton Is a good citizen and will run his place according to law. He has been paying rent on a vacant room for some time,,in order to be ready to occupy it with a bar when the license was granted and now he will start ,up within a few days. - ■ 11 — 1 ■■■' I'.f Jim Kepner, of Francesville, was here yesterday as the guest of Miss Nellie Grant. The Ladies of the Home Missionary Society of the M. E. church will give a 10-cent social on Tuesday afternoon, May 7, at the home of Mrs. W. H. Parkison. Everybody invited. There were seventy new members taken into the M. E .church Sunday morning and the ceremony of baptism by immersion administered to 22 of them. Four were baptised by immersion Friday. The others, came from other churches, mostly from M. E churches at other towns. In all more than one hundred have been added to the M. E. church during the winter. Three county officials, viz., Recorder Tilton, Auditor Hammond and Commissioner Stackhouse were among those who were taken into the church Sunday.