Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1913 — BUND TIGER NEAR THE CAMP GROUNDS [ARTICLE]

BUND TIGER NEAR THE CAMP GROUNDS

Preachers At Battle Ground Raided A Creek Joint and Got 23 Bottles Of Beer. s' Sunday morning two young ladies who were attending the Battle Ground camp meeting saw a lot of empty beer bottles scattered along not far from the camp. They decided to investigate and found ever so many more along the bank of Burnett’s Creek. They were frightened away by the appearance of two men and returned to the camp and reported their discovery to the ministers. Revs. McKenzie, Tillotson, Benson, Dick, Marshall and Charles Wood, the grounds keeper, decided to make an investigation and near the creek they found a sack containing 23 bottles of beer. They returned to the cAmp and while talking over the procedure they would take it is reported that the two men gathered up bottles they had stored at variplaces along the creek and moved them to another place. Later the men, Ben Oilar and Byron Church accosted Wood and demanded the beer, saying they had it for their private consumption, but hey did not get it. One of the ministers stated that it would be used before the grand jury. Sheriff Fisher and Prosecutor Hennegar were called and the beer taken to the jail. Sunday was a big day at the grounds and, it is presumed Oilar and Church were planning a big business. They will stand a good chance of getting fined or jailed or both and the young ladies deserve the credit for discovering them.