Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1914 — JUNGLE HUNT AT GOODLAND. [ARTICLE]

JUNGLE HUNT AT GOODLAND.

A Few Blind Tigers Captured in Bro. Logan’s Lily White Town. As the result of a blind tiger hunt at Goodland Saturday night, Fred Noel, a book-keeper for a grain elevator company at that place and who is also a member of the town board, was arrested on the charge of illegal possession of intoxicating liquors, / which the temperance people there believe, it is said, he has been selling out to the thirsty wayfarers of Goodland. Chan Smith’s pool and soft drink emporium and Wiekert’s tailor shop were also visited by the raidin' party, and at the former place a quanity of alleged substitute for oeer, similar to that sold in most ;dry” towns was found. At the tailor shop 1G quarts of beer was found, but the proprietor said he had it for his own private use, and, as this could not be successfully disputed, he was not arrested. in the “club_ room” of Noel s a keg of beer and numerous bottles are alleged to have been found. Noel is alleged to have threatened to throw the raiding party out of the room, but there were too many for him.