Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1909 — Appeal to Mayor for Beer. [ARTICLE]

Appeal to Mayor for Beer.

+ Many business men of Gary and a large number of other private citizens wish beer, if the reform element in the city does not. Yesterday a petition with over five hundred signatures of prominent business men, and headed by F. N. Deen, was sent to Thomas E. Knotts, president of the town board, but known as “mayor,” asking that he should allow beer wagons to deliver beer to private families In Gary with the restrictions that only two cases should be allowed each person a week. The following is the petition: “We, the undersigned, citizens oi Gary, earnestly appeal to you in behalf of our citizens to allow beer wagons to deliver beer to private houses and restrict of said" beer wagons to allow but one case to each customer and not to exceed two cases a week. Wagons not to be allowed to deliver beer to places that have the name of running ‘blind pigs’.” Hundreds of men employed in the steel works and blast furnaces at Gary threaten to quit work unless the beverage is restored to them. Many already have done so and officials of the Indiana Steel company face a labor famine.