Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1917 — WHEATFIELD GOES DRY [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD GOES DRY

WOMEN WIN OUT IN EFFORTS TO DRIVE SALOON OUT—OUT AT ONCE. The county commissioners met to day in regular session and took up the matter of the remonstrance filed some time ago against the saloon at Wheatfield, operated by James Anderson. At the session held last month an agreement between the commissioners could not be reached as there had been a great many’women signed the remonstrance and it could not be determined to the entire satisfaction of the commissioners whethet or not the women had a legal right of not to sign the remonstrance. It was decided at this meeting that the action of the women in signing the remonstrance was legal "and it was voted favorably upon. Wheatfield has received much notoriety of late by its large subscription to the Red Cross fund and also for the number of boys it has sent to the war.