Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1908 — Union Township to Stay Dry. [ARTICLE]

Union Township to Stay Dry.

The Union township people got after the saloon question with a vengeance, and Rev. B. F. Ferguson filed a remonstrance with the auditor Friday that will seal the doom of the licensed saloon for all time to come. There were 219 votes in that township for auditor of state two years ago and this would require 110 signatures to defeat the saloon applications of J. H. Conway and Charles Gundy, who sought to secure licenses at Parr and Fair Oaks, respectively. Mr. Gundy sold his building at Parr and withdrew from the effort to get a license. It was readily seen that the remonstrance effort would prevail “Tlnd the temperance people wanted to make it as effective as they could, and the soliciting for names was continued until 199 were secured, which only lacked 20 of making it unanimous. It was a great victory for temperance and shows the growing tendency in that direction, for the last remonstrance filed contained little more than the required number of signatures.