Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1908 — Fun at Royal Center. [ARTICLE]

Fun at Royal Center.

Winamac Democrat: Royal Center people bad an exciting mix-up between the boozers and the anti-boozers la t Saturday o er the possession of a wagon load of beer which the marshal had previously confiscated as contraband goods. The temperance people, etood massed around the beer; which had been unloaded from a dray to the gutter by the owner of the dray, George Icemasters, a temperance man, who objected to his mules drawing a wagonload of “booze.” Headed by Marshal Wellington Gaby, the temperance people wished to get axes and destroy the cases of beer, but the friends of Wesley Huffman, who has charge of the beer, threatened to start trouble, if the beer was molested. Royal Center is a “dry” town, and the feeling between the liberal element and the temperance people is very bitter. A riot was only prevented by counsel of Attorney James Fry and other heads. The beer was consigned to A. J. Conn, a former saloon keeper, who keeps a restaurant. After the two factions had faced each other for some time and almost come to blows, Huffman got a friend to hitch up his horses and the beer was removed to his home. His mother refused to let him store it in the cellar, so it was piled inside the fence. ' Geo. Myers, an old time trapper and fisher, of Elwood, caught a fine specimen of the stork species, the only one ever seen alive there, and will ■end it to President Roosevelt. One of the greatest novelties of the season is cloth for evening wear. Most coats will be semi-fitting and will extend below the hips. Michigan City's water supply is bad, according to a report just made by H. E. Barnard, chemist to the state board of health, and J. H. Brewster, wafer chemist In the state toryThe fastest run ever made by a Baltimore & Ohio train for long distance was accomplished last week when a train carrying J. P. Green, first vice-president of the Pennsyl Tania and a director of the Baltimore & Ohio, was hauled from Chicago Junction to PlttAburg, 147 miles In ’JW minutes. For the distance this I 'ls held tty motive power offices to be a speed record.