Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1908 — GARY GOES DRY. [ARTICLE]

GARY GOES DRY.

Hammond, Ind., May 20.—After a contest of three weeks before the Board of County Commissioners at Crownpoint, in which fifteen lawyers participated, the remonstrants who filed petitions against the granting of licenses to 110 saloons in Gary were successful. The County Commissioners knocked out the saloons, but the question will be taken to tjie Supreme Court. The remonstrance covered Calumet township. The Indiana League’s campaign in Lake county, regarded as a saloon stronghold, is the entering wedge, they declare, which will make Indiana go dry. The League has been backed financially in the Gary fight by two Chicago millionaires who own property at Gary. The league will carry the fight into Hammond, where there are more than 200 saloons, and is confident of knocking them out.