Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1903 — TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT At REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT At REMINGTON.

/ The anti-saloon forces at Remington have been very active this week in circulating blanket remonstrances against “any and all applicants” for a saloon license in that town/and it is thought at this writing, we are informed, that enough signatures have been secured to make the movement a complete success. The first applicant to be “hit” by the remonstrance, providing a sufficient number of names are secured in the town and township, is John F. Kelly, who makes application to the commissioners next Monday. Kelly is applying for license to succeed young Ulm, in the corner saloon on East Railroad street. Ulm will retire from business, we understand. If the “antis” succeed in defeating Kelley they will also knock out the other saloonists as fast as the present licenses expire, and the latest to expire, it is said, is in July. There are four saloons there at present. This is the first temperance movement to strike Remington for several years, and the outcome will be watched by the people of the county and the surrounding towns with interest. Later: ‘‘ Rev. Middleton and others from Remington were over yesterday morning and filed the remonstrance, containing 275 names, or 17 more than the required number. There were 517 votes cast for secretary of state in Carpenter last election, and a majority of this vote is required to a remonstrance, which would be 258.