Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1919 — PAYS $185 FOR 5 GALLONS OF WATER—ARRESTED. [ARTICLE]

PAYS $185 FOR 5 GALLONS OF WATER—ARRESTED.

Hammond, Ind., July 20. —John Sapiuel, an Indiana Harbor grocer, paid <lB5 for a half pint of whiiky today. A mysterious stranger drove up to his 'store'and offered a five gallon jug of ten year old for >lB5. John stuck ins finger in the jug, smacked his lips, paid the money, and the stranger disappeared Samuel began to pour otit the contents into smaller jugs and the flow suddenly stopped. A rubber tube slipped out and five gallons of water. Samuel ran-to the police station to complain that he had beeri robbed. The police arrested him for buying the whisky and confiscated the rubber tube. AU the gush in this Texas oil .business isn't in the gushers.—£ Little Rock Arkansas Gazette. J.