Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1913 — WHEATFIELD “WET” BY MARGIN OF 7 [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD “WET” BY MARGIN OF 7

Seventy Did Not Go to the Polls and Village Will Continue to Harbor a Saloon. --

“ ’Tis true, ’tis pity, Pity ’tis, ’tis trqe.” Wheatfield went “wet” by a narrow margin. The result of Tuesday’s local option election in that township was as follows: Wet 92 Dry 85 Total 177 Wet plurality, 7. Not voting, 70. While it is not certain that those who remained away from the polls would all have voted “dry,” it is quite sui-e that there were enough of them to have kept a saloon out of Wheatfield, and it is tolerably certain that the majority of people there are opposed to the saloon. It is, certainly a great pity that one of these immoral dumps is to again be saddled on to a town and a community that has shown itself to be so much better without saloons. It is hoped that the temperance people of other townships fn the north part of the county get busy and prevent the starting of other saloons. ~