Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1914 — "TIGER" DEN RAIDED AT MONTICELLO [ARTICLE]

"TIGER" DEN RAIDED AT MONTICELLO

Ten Dozen Bottles Export Beer and Other Things Found and All Wet Goods Confiscated. Friday evening as people were going to supper City Marshal Dobbins, assisted by Sheriff Downey, made a search of J. O. Wingerd’s soft drink emporium on West Washington street, next door east of the Colonial Case. They discovered a plenty. The inventory reads as follows: • ' 5 full barrels marken “Ten dozen small bottles Export Beer.” 4 full barrels of wet goods unmarked. 1% barrel labeled “Tip-Top.” 1% barrel, bottles packed in paper cantons, no labels on bottles. 1 quart supposed wine. 2% quarts supposed wine. iy a keg supposed wine. Those who have made such investigations and ought to know, say that there Is no question that a part of the stuff is genuine beer. Ray O. Wickham, of Remington, is the one that filed the affidavit on which the search-warrant was issued and the search made. There had been rumors for some time that Wingard was not walking in the straight and narrow path in the way of liquor selling. He has been accused of selling quite often before and has had convictions against him. Time and again a bunch of “booze lusters” in town, when they were arrested, have made him come across and put up bail or pay fines, convincing those in the know that they had some hold on him.- It is to be hoped that the present case will wind up the carreer of such establishments in this town, It is all right to keep some kind of a room where men can congregate, smoke and chat, but let it be run according to law.