Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1913 — CONFISCATED DOZEN BARRELS AT REMINGTON [ARTICLE]

CONFISCATED DOZEN BARRELS AT REMINGTON

"Soft” Drink Emporiums Raided ; by Several Members of the Law and Order League. Remington Press. Friday evening without previous notice several members of the Law and Order League accompanied by the town marshal and the presenting attorney, dropped in' on a couple of soft drink emporiums in Remington and for the time took possession of their establishments. This.was occasioned by the report that they were selling bottled goods that would not pass the one and a half per cent alcohol law, and aifter sampling a large number of bottles from various cases, took possession of twelve barrels of the stuff, besides several jugs and packages and placed the proprietors, George E. Reed and Orin Lucas, under arrest. Bond was immediately given and the cases were carried .over to the circuit court. The confiscated bottled goods are''locked up at the town calaboose. A ‘large crowd was on the street when the arrest and inspection was going on and great excitement. Saturday our honorable prosecutor and Squire Dickinson sat is a court of inquiry and summoned everybody they could think of before them to tell of all the, violations that had been going otn in the town, since the time Parker broke the bank. Just what they learned has not been made public.