Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1908 — DRY CONDITIONS ON KANKAKEE [ARTICLE]

DRY CONDITIONS ON KANKAKEE

Thayer and Rose Lawn Saloons Defeated by Remonstrance by Narrow Majority of Eight A blanket remonstrance was filed in the commissioner’s coart of Newton county , Monday that fixes the doom of the saloons in Lincoln township, and puts all the joints alongythe Kankakee out of business, including the saloons at Rose Lawn, Tnayer and Water Valley. These saloons have become the rendezvous of hunters and trappers from Chicago, and have had a large patronage from all up and down the Monon, thru the week and Sundays, and it is claimed the saloon keepers there have had very little regard for the law. Fights and brawls were of daily occurence. The*temperanee people had a hard fight to win out and are said 10 have won out by the narrow margin of 8 signers. It is not known hpre when the last of the solooos there will be put out of business by the remonstrance victory, but it is supposed that they will string along about all the year. The victory will be very gratifying to temperance people in Rensselaer. If the good people of lit. Ayr would now set their plans to shut out the saloon there at the next opportunity, this section of Indiana would be in good shape Williamsport, in Warren county, joined the ranks pf the the dry this week, and Editors Gregory and Stephenson, who were here to attend convention were among those who assisted>4tr' sounding the death knell. (I