Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1905 — The Lid On At Hammond. [ARTICLE]

The Lid On At Hammond.

The action of Gov, Hanly in summarily lopping off the official heads of the Anderson police commissioners, beoause they did not eaforoe the Sunday saloon closing and other temperancs and antivioe laws, has thrown a big scare into all the other wide open big towns cf the sta-e, and even Hammond is making an effort to be good. The following are the opening paragraphs from a two colnmn acoount of the sitnation£there, in Monday’s Hammond News: A tall, red-nosed gentleman got off a street oar last night and licked his chops with a rare old liok of antioipatioi. He tnrued over to one of the liquid emporiums at tha four corners, with a "I’vebeen here-before and I’m going-hire-agam” sort of an expression. He grabbed the latch with eigerness and started to walk in, all in one muscular motion so that when he bumped his shin against the panel of the door, he muttered something to himself, whioh is never heard in Sunday schools, "Must bi somebody dead” be said seutentiously and started to the diagonally opposite oorner. Just as he was about to pry bis way into the wet goods bouse, a lorlorn looking individual with his hands in his pockets s-iid "nothing doing pard, you’ll bava to go dry, nnless you got a bot at heme.” The till man with the red btak was amazed. "Closed np and in Hammond?’’ he said, "Why, whit the —!! —!!! ?? ???—!!!! 'Twas e’en so and ’twill be so, some more, too. Next Bundiy you won’t be able to get a drink at all. Hammond is going to be a "dry town’ after being one of the wet'eat of the wet for some time.