Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1918 — FIRST DRY BANQUET HELD IN THREE HUNDRED YEARS [ARTICLE]

FIRST DRY BANQUET HELD IN THREE HUNDRED YEARS

The following from the Borton Herald is an intererting commentary on the onward march of temperance: It was not such a startling innovation as some commentators have regarded it when the governing council of the Shriners put the ban the other day on the use of liquor at the meeting places of the order. More than 100 of the 145 temples of Shriners in the United States had already taken such action of their own accord. Yet the man on the street knowing Shriners as emphatically 'of the whengood - fellows - get together sort, would probably have named their order as the last citadel to surrender to the assaults of the bone-dry movement. Perhaps he would have expected the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, but that organization has just celebrated, with more or less enthusiam, its first dry banquet in almost three centuries. Possibly he would have felt that the Elks would be the last to surrender —since it is no secret that virtually all Elk lodges, even in dry states, have been wet clubs. But a great part of the 1,200 or more lodges of Elks in the country have of their own accord banished liquor from their clubs.