Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1907 — KEENER AND WHEATFIELD LIKELY TO GO “DRY.” [ARTICLE]

KEENER AND WHEATFIELD LIKELY TO GO “DRY.”

Reports from Keener and Wheatfield townships yesterday, where blanket remonstrances are being circulated, were to the effect that the “drys” were likely to win out by good safe majorities. They had until 12 o’clock, midnight, last night to file their remonstrances. The following withdrawals were filed Thursday from the Keener remonstrance, but a telephone message to a party here stated that these withdrawals would cut no figure, as the “drys” had them skinned to a finish anyway: H.C. Gilbert Dell Dobbins W. Kelder E. Buckley Geo. H. Kelder Less Kline Sherman Cooper Wm. Harrington Sheridan Cooper John B. Tyler M. Stall Lee Story If these remonstrances are successful they will have the effect of closing some six saloons in the two townships and leaving Kankakee and Walker, with one saloon each, as the only “wet” territory in Jasper county. A Roselawn correspondent to a Kentland paper says: “The antisaloon forces of Lincoln township are waging a vigorous warfare against the five saloons of this township. A blanket remonstrance is being circulated, and if it obtains a majority, will be filed Friday of this week. The liquor men meanwhile are not idle but are making a determined stand to defeat the remonstrance if possible. The temperanoe people sent to South Bend and Tuesday and Wednesday evenings Rev. E. S. Shumaker gave his stereoptician lectures on “The Saloon Inside Out,” and also “Ten Nights in a Bar Room.” Great interest has been manifested in these lectures and the liquor people are thoroughly alarmed.”