Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1909 — DRY SUNDAY AT CEDAR LAKES [ARTICLE]

DRY SUNDAY AT CEDAR LAKES

Lake county just now is considerably in the limelight by reason of a crusade being made by the goodygoodys against law violations In that county that has gone on unchecked for more than a score of years. At Gary, the new steel city, our former citizen, W. F. Hodges, Is now deputy prosecutor, and If newspaper reports are reliable he is going after lawlessness there in a way i that is causing ttie cold shivers to i go down the spines of the law-break- ! era. , Appeals have been made to Governor Marshall to assist in clamping on the lid, and he has notified I the officers to do their duty or get I oft the nest, and if necessary he I would send the state militia there to back them up. As a result Cedar Lake was drier than the proverbial bone from 11 o’clock Saturday night till 5 a. m., Monday, and a few cases of beer, which some of the excursionists brought down with them from Chicago to sort of fill in with, were seized by the sheriff and the bottTw broken. I It was the thirstiest day ever known in Cedar Lake, and if the crusade is kept up the Sunday excursion business to that resort is as good as ended for this season.