Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1909 — FIFTY-SIX CARRIE NATIONS [ARTICLE]

FIFTY-SIX CARRIE NATIONS

Women Descend Upon and Wreck “Joints” In Kansas. Pittsburg, Kan., July 9. —Fifty-six women were arrested at West Mineral, near here, on charges of disturbing tho peace, following a raid by them on “joints’’ or illicit saloons. The places had refused to sell the women beer in buckets and the women, most of whom are Austrians, marched in a body to the joints and wrecked four of them. Wets Win In Virginia Election. Bristol, Va., July 9.—The wets carried Bristol in a locSl option election by a majority of 38 out of 845 votes cast.