Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1913 — ONION SCORES BIG VICTORY [ARTICLE]

ONION SCORES BIG VICTORY

County Attorney Refuses Warrant for Man on Woman's Complaint Against /Vegetable. i lola, Kan.—The onion won /a legal Bkirmish here when County Attorney Forrest refused to issue a warrant for Willis Thompson, charged by Miss Lucretia Campbell, a neighbor, with permitting the cooking of onions in his home, the odors from which filled her rooms, causing her great discomfort Miss Campbell declared that the odor of onions was poisonous to her, and upon that contention she based her demand that Thompson be arrested. “The state of Kansas will not lend Its aid to banish the onion from the home,” said the county attorney. "Miss Campbell’s remedy is an injunction issued in the district court, if she one.” Mr. Forrest paid a high tribute to tl>e healthful properties of the onion, quoting Hetty Green as saying she attributed her health and wealth to eating thp vegetable daily.