Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1902 — Can This Be True? [ARTICLE]

Can This Be True?

The following was handed in by an intelligent and responsible resident: The Rensselaer people who are trying to break up the legally run saloons, had better investigate the rear room over the -------- store, which is rented for the purpose of gambling and other vice and a man hired at $60 per month to run it as such, it is not only run there the week but all day Sunday and Sunday night. A room in connection is equipped with a bed and other furniture necessary to run a Hell hole of this kind, which boys of 19 years as well as men are allowed to visit.