The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-02-07
Anti-WhIsky war in Ohio.

of the village dram shops. They went in {
body to the grocery or saloon and opened ;
prayer meeting, the exercises consisting of &
brief eXhortation, singing hymns and making
prayers. If one such visit failed to close the
concern, another was made and another, and
if the doors were closed on the women, the
prayer meeting was organized on the side
walk outside. Two or three repetitions OF
the dose generally closed the dram shop and
spilled the liquor in the gutter.
| The success at Washington Court House
encouraged like efforts in other quarters, and
all over the state The Ohio papers are full
of it, and the big dailies Curtail their columns
of murders and other horrors to give space to
the anti.whsky excitement in Ohio We
have room for a few cases only, to show how
the thing works.
In Greenfield, Highland county, the ladies
have inauguaated evening visits to the
saloons at any hour from q to 10 O'Clock
The result is, to empty each saloon by the
rear door very suddenly, as they enter by the
front The ladies have enlisted for the war,
and, if the few remaining dealers continue
unrepentant they will organize patrol of
hairf q uuze;n. or 50 to visit the saloons at any
hour, and dlssuade people from drinking.
They can furnish guard for each day, and
not employ any of them more than once in
two weeks.
A correspondent Of the Chicago Tribune
writes from Cincinnati on Monday
At New Holland, Pickaway county, twen
ty.fve ladies have volunteered for the cru
SADIE, They visit every shop daily. The
drug store cheerlul'y took the pledge only to
sell on the order of responsible physician,
under bond Of $1,000. The others have all
taken the pledge, except one, Mr.. Berry, who
kept one of the gambling and drinking
saloons. AT the present writing he is closely
BARRICADED BY THE LADIES,
who are quartered IN daguerrean tent that
has been provided for them at the expense of
the town. 1t is placed within few inches
Of the sidewalk, so that the ladies, as they
sit inside, can see both doors of the saloon.
Since the ladies took possession of this taber-
nacle, the saloon has been closed, the pro-
prietor being absent.
There was a drilling rain at New Vienna,
Clark county, yesterday, but the ladies were
out in full force, harrassing the liquor.vender
Vanpelt, he being the only one able to hold
out Promptly at o'clock this morning the
ladies assembled in front of Vanpelts saloon
He, being kindly disposed, brought out a
beer key apiece for seats, and they were ar.
ranged in the form Of
sEMICIRCLE AROUND THE DOOR.
The order of exercises were, first, prayer
and singing by the ladies'; second, sermon"
by the Rev. Nanpelt. This programme has
been repeated over and over, until darkness
dispersed the congregation. This is the first
day that the ladies have stood guard the en-
tire day. They propose now to stand until
the besieged surrenders. Arrangements have
been made to erect a shanty in front Of the |
dead-fall On Saturday the ladies could not
stand out in the cold, except at intervals, An
artist was on hand and photographed the
scene. Pictures will soon be- placed on |
sale OF
THE wICKEDEsT Man IN OHIO,
representing him standing in the door de- |
ivering one of his sermons, with his female |,
audience standing around hb,
At Washington, Fayette Coiihty, where the |
women initiated the movement, the liquor
rafiic has been entirely stopped. Charley
Beck, whose saloon is outside the corporate
limits, has been visited by the ladies every
lay for nearly two weeks. He is
JOLLY GERMAN,
and treats the ladies kindly, but refuses to
lccede TO their propositions. The entire
county is being secured for signatures to the
total abstinence pledge
At Gallipolis, Gallia county, the ladies
brigade of active workers numbers 81. They
work in three divisions, but have made little |
Roadway with the saloon.keepers, some of
whom order them off their premises, and i'll
they enter put out the lights,
DR.. Dio Lewis, the great temperance apos-
tie, is on the ground, apparently engineering
the movement.
What the final result may be is hard to
torctcll. The movement has evidently just
begun and may spread all over the West.
The liquor sellers, however, are not dis
posed to surrender without fight Most of
them have licenses and threaten to prosecute
the women's league for damages. They have
sent to Cincinnati for help, and the rurhor
on Saturday was that $4,000 were sent to
Hillsboro alone to fight the league.
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