Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1911 — SEEKS TO BECOME CITY [ARTICLE]

SEEKS TO BECOME CITY

♦Vest Terre Haute Springs New Feature in Option Fight. Terre Haute, led., Feb, 24. The “wet” and “dry” fight in Sugar Creek township, in the western part of Vigo eounty, is now centering around the question whether West Terre Haute will become a city instead of an incorporated town, as it now is. Secret meetings of both forces are being held and the “wets” are said to be arranging to petition the town council to take steps toward placing the town under city government. If city government is obtained, according to the new liquor law, the township election could in no way effect the election on the liquor question in the city. Therefore the “wets” believe they could maintain a majority, while under the township unit it is thought they would be defeated and the saloons ousted as a conse quence.