Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1855-07-18
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The pupils of the Grand Haven School, grateful
for the ample means provided for their mental
Improvement, cordially invite their parents and
friends to call at their school room, on Thursday
afternoon next, and listen to the literary exercs-
es to which that portion of the day is devoted.
urOpERAT1oN OF THE MAINE nLAw.-Our
townsman, H. GRIFFIN, Esq, druggist has
kindly afforded us for publication the amount
of the second months sale of liquors, of va
rious kinds, for medicinal and mechanical
purposes. His sales amount to one gallon
more rs gal) than those Of the previous
month. Showing that our citizens and those
of contiguous townships are enjoying usual
degree of health. Most people begin to UNI
derstand that health can be preserved or res
tored with a much less amount of spirituous
liquors than was formerly supposed necessary,
and that too much stimulant may not in all
cases be beneficial. AS for instance trifing
weakness of the lower extremities, slight
dizziness of the brain, difficulty of articula-
ting certain words of disputed photography,
disagreeable BLUR before the organs of Wis
ion, are all premonitory symptoms which Mr..
G.. understands, and the proper treatment
thereof he knows full well. He has certain
drugs and compounds, carefully prepared,
which, if taken according to prescription, will
work like a charm in dispelling such danger
Gus symptoms of disease which previous to
the enactment of the Prohibitory Law prov
ed fatal in thousands of cases, as many lowly
mounds in our grave yards will amply affirm.
Every good citizen we feel assured can but
rejoice at the beneficial results of the aban-
donment Of the traffic in spirituous liquors
in our community, and that peace and good
order continue to reign supreme. A few
cases of arrest have occurred, of persons SEEM
ingly intoxicated, but upon trial they have
for the most part alleged that they were Ell
Their as sober as the Justice, or that the slight
affection of nerve, under which they might at
the time have been laboring, was caused by
the remarkable change which has taken place
in the nature of lemonade, small beer, and
kindred beverages since the enactment of the
Prohibitory Law, producing an effect never
known before in the annals of drinks of a
nature SO delicious and refreshing. No reli-
ance, it would seem, can be put upon lemons,
hops, spruce, winter green, or upon any of the
long catalogue Of fruits, roots and herbs, SO
long held in esteem for the beneficial in
fluence exerted upon the health, when care
fully prepared by our good DANES and shop
keepers. Well, if the law has rendered the
inviting beverages that may thus be prepar-
ed from ingredients of natures own furnish
ing so huryM to the system, resort to the
cool, gurgling fountains of our own delight
full hills and valleys seems to be the only re-
source left us. Of these, at least, we may
drink freely. No disease, no nervous affec-
ton, no tremor If limbs, no dizziness of BRAIN
no imperfect vision can result from an unres-
tricted and copious use of pure water. Then
drink freely thereof and thereby enjoy the
happiness, wealth, and influence, that frugal
ity and temperance bestow upon their vota,
ries.