The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-11-27
Like a Couple of Cub Republics.

Finn" staff correspondent of the
Detroit Evening News, was sent to South
Haven to investigate the drug store con-
dition, and prepared a very readable
article which was published under
the above caption, embellished with
a portrait of John Mackey, the ir-
repressble, who immortalized himself
by the herculean task of organizing the
celebrated "babycott.'
Firms article was in part as follows:
There is a rich field here for a writer
of farce comedies. If Charley Hoyt were
alive he could certainly improve on "a
Temperance Town" He would undoubt-
eddy name a farce written by him about
this town and the town of Paw Paw,
"A Drug Store" He might call it simply
Paw Paw"
In the first place the drug stores of
South Haven are a wonderful institution.
They flourish like the proverbal green
bay tree. There are dozen on the two
principal streets of the town and they do
a thriving business. In some of the
drug stores one may procure medicine,
and it has been known that prescriptions
were compounded. But this may not be
true, for they are simply rumors and
could not be successfully run down.
Many of the drug stores in this town
have fancy names, like Woodward avenue
saloons There is one called Red Cross"
another is called THE Big Medicine
Man In nearly all the drug stores are
bars where liquor and beer are dispensed.
1t isn't even necessary to wink. The
clerks, or more precisely speaking, the
bartenders, have a knack of anticipating
your wants.
In recent months the propretors of
some Of the drug stores became SO en-
boldened in selling beer and stronger
drink to customers that they put round
tables in the rear of their stores and had
regular walters to take and serve orders
for the liquid refreshments. 10 two or
three cases music was furnished, and it
wasn't unusual for brawls to occur.
1t was quite the thing for young wo-
men TO patronize these drug stores for
ice cream soda, for it must be admitted
that both ice cream soda and ginger pop
were also sold, not great deal to be
sure, but still there were some of the
people of the town who liked to- indulge
in ice cream soda and ginger pop.
Headache powders have great run
here, and there never was another town
that had such run Of "hypochrondriacs"
as South Haven. In some cases it is
necessary in procuring liquor in the drug
stores to say that 1.-The doctor ordered it."
The doctors ordered it for all sorts of
diseases. The whisky Of this town is
the greatest pain killer known to the
medical profession,
The red whisky OF the South Haven
drug stores has been known to cure con.
sumption, and men who have been "all
shot to pieces" the night before have re-
covered with two internal applications.
Nearly every man in this town is taken
Ill from three to twenty times day, but
he knows how to get well and strong
without going to Hot Springs or West
Baden.
With this condition facing pure, holy
Paw Paw, the city of love and righteous
ness, the place of poverty and prayers.
there was little wonder that the seat of
government would call for a grand jury
to wipe out the great evil that threat
ened the destruction of the flower and
youth of the Sodom of Van Buren, county.
Away out here in the extreme west
ern portion Of the state, with blizzard
blowing through the main streets from
off the cold bosom of Lake Michigan.
business is practically at standstill,
particularly the drug store business.
Some of the drug stores visited to-day
were entirely out of liquor and business
was dead, stagnantly dead. In one place
there was pretension made to sci