Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1904 — Liquor and Cold In Benton County. [ARTICLE]

Liquor and Cold In Benton County.

Oxford Tribune: King alcohol and th® Christmas blizzard claimed a’ victim in Benton Connty. Sidney W Harris, aged 53 years and residing •one mile east,of Earl Park, started to walk home in Friday night’s storm. He was poorly clad and had taken a liberal quanity of liquor from one or all of the five saloons in that place that were closed on legal holidays. The next morning he was found frozen to death in the roadside a half mi'e from home by his son. - The deceased leaves a wife and family in poor circumstances. .