Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-08-28
MUST NOT SELL LIQUOR
DEXTERVILLE SALOON men IN COURT
Complaint Was Made That They Sold Liquor
Without Licenses-Qne Goes Free and
the Other is Convicted.

DeXterVllle is a temperance. UOWn,
the town board having decreed that
after July l no licenses would be
issued to men who desire to engage "a
the liquor traffic. Up to July l ther e
were several saloons in that village.
These were suddenly transformed into
stemperance" resorts when it was
learned that nu licenses we're to be
granted under any circumstanc es.
To behold saloon men dealing out all
brands OF soft drinks possessing all
kinds Of tastes and colors and going
under all manner OF names was novel
thing, and many were the doubters
who resorted thither to see for them
selves. Some tasted-for surely there
would be no harm to take a soft drink!
There were those who. felt 'squeer''
after partakiDg Of some of the strange
soft drinks-"kind Of nervous and
sleepy" as one put it. Then, there
were some OF tho more experienced
who boldly proclaimed that the soft
drinks reminded them OF old familia r
friends they were accustomed to meet
i'll the balmy days preceding July l.
The friends had merely disguised
themselves under other names!
With such talk going the rounds.
it was natural that The town authOri-
tics would make some Investigations.
The result was that Town Chairman
James K. P. Hiles SWOre out warrants
against VIM. Monagan and G.. G.
knight, two temperance saloon
men. The complaint was made under
Section 1850, of the Revised statutes
Of Wisconsin, which prohibits the
selling and giving away of spirituouS,
malt, ardent and intoxicating liquors
and drinks for the purpose OF eyading
the laws of the state without first
having obtained license Or permit
therefor" Both men were brought
before Justice w. H. Gets Thursday.
The MOnogan case was taken up first
and the Knight case was adjourned
to 2 O'Clock p. m. Knight was dis
missed later in the day by the request
of District Attorney Wipperman,
because the case was not called at the
proper hour. Knight was re-arreSted,
however, and his attorney took a
change of venue to Justice B. l..
Browns court.
The Monagan case began at 9o'clock
Thursday morning and lasted to 8
O'Clock Saturday night when the jury
brought in a verdict Of mot guilty."
The jury was made up of James Keyes,
julius Klug. Andrew King, George
Miller, Ole Knutson and George
Courtney. Nine witnesses were
examined and their testimony was to
a great extent contradictory.
Two witnesses swoTe that they had
purchased whiskey from MonOgan
while two others, who were in the
saloon at the time the sale was made,
said it was not whiskey but, malt
tea'' and ''malt mead Sheriff
Mclaughlin, who had made the arrest,
said that he had made thorough
search in the Temperance" saloon
and had found ''malt mead" malt
tea," whiskey, wine and ST. Jacobs
bitters. He had brought samples
with him and exhibited them to the
judge and jury. In reply to this
MOnogan said it was true that he had
spirituous liquors in his Temperance"
saloon at the time he was arrested,
but that they were remains of the
goods he had on hand when his license
ran out. He stoutly maintained that
only temperance drinks had been sold
at his place since July l. Other wit
nesses claimed that the 'malt mead
and ''malt tea," tasted like whiskey
and ''foamed like beer" and that they
had seen Monogan often drawing
something from under the counter
but, under oath, would not say that it
was really beer or whiskey that had
been sold to them.
The Knight case came up before
Justice Brown Saturday morning at
Ii O'Clock. In the course Of the evil
dence it was shown that Knight had
sold liquor to two different persons.
Sheriff Mclaughlin, also in this case,
exhibited samples of whiskey he had
taken from barrels in Knights "teln-
perance" saloon. Knight called it
''orange cider" One witness said
that this ''orange cider" had made
him intoxicated, while another said
that he drank of the ''orange cider"
and woke up the next morning with a
terrible headache. Another witness,
who was naturally of a taciturn dis
position. found that ''orange cider''
made him merry and talkative. Still
another man said that his wife found
a bottle of ''orange cider" in his
pocket one morning and destroyed it
at once Knight claimed, however,
that these drinks were strictly item
perance," but at the same time admit
ted that he sold ''orange cider"
Justice Brown fined knight $50 and
costs, amounting in all to $S5.32