Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1907 — Kentucky Sets Mark For Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Kentucky Sets Mark For Indiana.

Indiana newspapers can no longer point to Kentucky as the commonwealth occupying a place in history for its beautful women, fast horses, outlaws, duels, and rende vons where men died from delerinm tremens and assassins' ballets. Kentucky in its last election show ed the unique position in the nation that it no v occupies in the follow ng paragraph: Summing up the net result or recent elections extending the operation of the local option law in Kentucky, it is computed that there a.e now only nine counties in that state where liquor may be legally sold over the bar, and that in most of these nine counties every town is for prohibition excepting the county seat.