Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1907 — Lebanon on the “Dry” Road. [ARTICLE]

Lebanon on the “Dry” Road.

Lebanon, Boone county, is abdut to become dry by the remonstrance route. It had eigGf sabwis and seven of them were located in the second ward, which was considered safe from the attack of temperance advocates. However, after a hard fight which concluded on August 30th, the remonstrators won out and the commissioners held them sufficient to defeat the applicant who applied on Sept. Ist. The other saloons will go out during the next few mouths and there will be littlfe trouble in defeating the only saloon in another ward. Of the movement the Pioneer, ot Lebanon says: “The fight in the second ward, has been from the beginning eopducted on a high plane and malice. The saloon meu have for some tinie seen the storm clouds of public disapproval brewing and are not surprised at the success of the opposition. The work of blanketing the remaining wards is in progress, and there is not the shadow of a doubt that it will succeed.” ■