Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1911 — WHEATFIELD GOES “WET” [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD GOES “WET”

By a Majority of 43 and Roselawn Does Likewise By 34. The local option elections Saturday in Wheatfield tp., Jasper county and Lincoln tp., Newton county, resulted in favor of the wets, who carried the former bv 43 and the latter by 34. Neither township has I,(XX) population, the license limit fixed by the commissioners of each county, and unless 1 - the commissioners choose to read something into the law which is not there, neither township can legally be granted a license. The proper thing to have done in each case would have been to deny the petition for the election, as stated by The Democrat at the tirrie. Two years ago, when the

county option election was held, Wheatfield’s wet majority was but 17 y and the almost two to one vote now of the wets indicates a change in sentiment there in favor of the wets, due, no doubt, more to the proximity Porter county, a notorious resort, than to any other cause. The total vote cast was 214.

The Winamac Bridge Co., it is reported, has busted up, and that Bader himself is in financial straights. Mont Hathaway, a Winamac attorney and a member of the firm up to its reorganization last, sumther, was on Bader’s bond, but he and Bader have had a falling out, it is reported, and about a month ago he notified Bader that he wanted