Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1909 — Wayne County Wet. [ARTICLE]

Wayne County Wet.

Wayne county is the -first county in the series of local option elections to remain beer-soaked to disappoint the temperance people. The Wayne county election proved to be the unlucky combination of “Friday” and “thirteen”, it being the thirteenth election and held on Friday. However, the saloon element is so pleased that it is about to transfer “Friday, the Thirteenth” from the unlucky column to the lucky. The result of the election is ominous as it affects the entire state by putting the local option law in danger of being repealed. The county wet majority was 702. Richmond went wet ty 1852. The rest of the county went dry by 1150. There are thirteen elections to be held yet.