Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1909 — NO TREATING IN THIS SALOON [ARTICLE]

NO TREATING IN THIS SALOON

Customers Will Be Urged to Refresh Themselves With Non-lntoxlcants. Des Moines, la., May 14.—An antitreating saloon will be opened here May 22. A permit to open was granted to A. S. Kirkhart of Des Moines, who controls fifteen local saloons and who declares that if the venture proves a success he will, install the same system in all of the others. Kirkhart’s plan goes Bishop Potter one better in that treating will not be tolerated. Clerks in charge will attempt to induce drinkers to accept a substitute for liquor in the form of buttermilk, sweet milk, tea, coffee or some other non-intoxicating beverage.