Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1903 — Fearful Saloon Slaughter. [ARTICLE]

Fearful Saloon Slaughter.

Remington and Carpenter Township Have Blanketed Their Blank Saloons. The blanket remonstrance feature of the Nicholson law has got in its first work in Jasper county, and it was a big job. The people of Remington and Carpenter Tp., have gotten up a remonstrance, under the blanket feature and signed by 275 legal voters, which is 20 more than a majority, as shown at last election. The power of attorney is given to Levi Hawkins and J. H. Whitehead, two well known citizens of Remington, and is for a peroid of two years, and directs and empowers them to remonstrate against every saloon applicant in the town for that time. The first such remonstance was filed with the county auditor, Friday, by Mr. Hawkins. It is directed against John F. Kelley, who desires to keep a saloon in the room now occupied by John W. Ulm, whose license expired the 17th of February. It is stated that the fight to obtain a sufficient number of signatures has been a lively affair and furthermore that large numbers of men, both in town and country, who were in the habit of going to the saloons, and drinking, are among the signers. •There are still three other saloons in Remington, thus doomedjto early death. Namely, John W. Alkire’s, whose license expires Juno 10th, 1903, John M. Johnson’s, license expires June 19th, and James A. Bilile, license expires Sept. Bth. If the blanket remonstrance works as expected, Bilile will be the whole thing in the saloon line for nearly three months, during which time he will no doubt do a rushing business. This experiment of a dry town, which heretofore has been, for its population, decidedly wet, will be watched with great interest by many neighboring towns, but most of all by Rensselaer.