Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1919 — Will Buy Saloons for “Coffee Bars” [ARTICLE]

Will Buy Saloons for “Coffee Bars”

Boston, Mass. Temperance barrooms furnishing all the good elements of the saloon minus intoxicating liquor are planned for this city by the Methodist,, centenary, according to the Rev. Dr. J. I. Bartholomew, executive secretary for the Boston area. In some cases liquor saloons would be purchased, he said. He believed that the original bars might even be retained, but only soft drinks and coffee would be handled. Community houses and “poor men’s clubs’.' also are to be established in connection with Methodist churches in the principal New England cities.