Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1904 — HOOPESTON THE SALOONLESS. [ARTICLE]

HOOPESTON THE SALOONLESS.

Former Rensselaer Man Finds Out About It. A traveling man for a Chicago house, who makes Rensselaer regularly, but whosa home for many years has been at Hoopeston, 111. says that it is the best town in the oonntry, The clean* s f , a oat orderly, best governed and with the most good homes owned by the oooupants, of any plaoe. Hoopeston has kept out the saloons for 25 years, under the Illinois luoal option law, and to this fact muoh of the town’s great excellence is attributed. Reports that barrel houses, blind tigers eto. flourish there, and j that the drug stores sell liquor, he says are false. Occasionally a man tries to sell the red eyed liquor oa the sly, but he soon gels a doee of the red-eyed law that cures him to stay cured. On 3 of the most notable of those was Adolph Lewie, the oigar makei, who, lately was for se\ eral years boated here in Rensselaer. He! started up a oigar factory there | last spring, and thought he would make a little easy money on the side, or on the older, by selling hard cider and other similar drinks. After laying out a SIOO ! fine in the county jail be concluded that oider money on the side, was harder than making Bnd selling cigars, and he pulled out for j Indiana again, and now he and Hoopeston don’t speak when they pass by. . A Pullman porter on the Erie road thought he wap too smooth for the Hoopeston officials, and got to selling it on he oer to depot loafers. The officials did not like to snake the coon out of his car, but they laid for him at the water tank, where they stopped for water, and he stepped off to stretoh his legs. He was oured of his ' liquor habit” by a fine of S3O.