Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1917 — A LAWYER’S FUNERAL [ARTICLE]

A LAWYER’S FUNERAL

A lawyer who. for many years had shocked a large number of his friends by his rather liberal views on religion, recently died. A friend of the deceased, who cut short a trip to hurry back to town for the purpose of attending the last rites of his colleague, entered the late lawyer’s home some minutes after the beginning of the service, . “What part of the service is this?’’ he inquired in a whisper of another legal' friend standing in the crowded hallway. “I’ve just come myself,” said the other, “but I believe they have opened for the defense.” The unexpected has happened in Vermillion county, Illinois. Danville, the) county seat, with sixtyeight saloons, voted “dry” last Tuesday and the saloons will go out of business May 1. Several other towns also went dry in Tuesday’s election and a total of 142 saloons are put out of business as a result. Danville was supposed to be one of the impregnable “wet” fortifications of our sister state, but the drys carried it Tuesday by nearly 300 majority. The liquor forces retained twelve wet towns and gained the only three dry towns when the, local option elections were held.’ Covers have been patented to protect men’s collars from being soiled by their overcoats.