Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1906 — RENSSELAER NOW “DRY.” [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER NOW “DRY.”

••Strick’’ Closed Last Friday Night and a General Drunk Celebrated the Event. Tbe closing of the Strickfaden saloon last Friday night—the last saloon in Rensselaer to close, via the remonstrance route —was marked with a sort of a general drunk, and several minor scraps were indulged in. It is reported that quite a number of boys of 18 to 20 years of age were in the crowd and vied with the older rounders in seeing who could "put away” the most booze. “Strick” says the boys did not buy the stuff of him, to it is probable some'of the older ones purchased it for them. Nothing has been done with the fixtures in the room in which “Strick” was located,and his plans are not made public, if he has any, at this writing. It is reported that he has given up starting a meat market and will seek a location in the saloon business elsewhere, some say in Dakota, but nothing definite is known at this time regarding the matter.