Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-12

cause such large amount of domestic
trouble?
Didn't he tell the drinking men to
quit lighting booze and take their
earnings home for the support of
their families?
Whose business did you mean by
the following sentence: II will ven
ture to say it will take Decatur four
or five wears TO get back to where it
was as a business city, as business is
in deplorable condition here at pres
ent?" Did you mean the liquor bust
ness? If you did, agree with you.
II you meant the legitimate bust
ness of the city, then ask you if you
didn't know that all such lines of
business are as good, If not better,
since May LIST. than the corresponding
time last year, Notwithstanding this
being a political year and year Of
panic?
Don't you know that one wholesale
house reports: "Our business is 20 TO
25 per cent better than last year and
orr small trade never paid as prompt
" as they have done this year: an
other, "Our business is 80 per, cent
better than last year a large bust
ness house: Trade that formerly
went to Springfield and Bloomington
comes here because ladies don't want
to ride home in cars with drunken
men: another, Our business is all
we could expect: have investigated
conditions III DanvilIe. Springfield and
Peoria. all wet towns, and they are
not doing The business we are, an
other: 1--WE are doing q good business
and are satisfied. Business in our line
in Danville is not holding up like it is
here; another, Never had as good
business as we have now; another.
"Our business is at least ) per cent
better than last year and travelling
men tell rs that Decatur is the best
town of it's size in the state?n
Didn't you know of the building OF
The scovill building, costing about
s36 900: of the Home Telephone build
irish Catholic church, costing over
S100 600 the Brethren church, costing
about $4,000 and securing the funds
for the new Y. w. c. a. building cost
ing $4,000. and the German Catholics
have raised about half of their sub
scrlption for $4,000 church, be.
sides many other smaller improve
ments in the city. all this summer, that
space forbids mentioning here?
Didn't you read about ten days ago
III one of The city papers that there
were $4,000 shoppers in Decatur Sat
Ilrday" from outside. carried here on
the interurbans and railroads?
Didn't you read in one of the local
papers the following statement from
Mr.. S. A. Hess, Wabash ticket agent,
about the Wabash passenger traffic
for September: Better than the same
month of 1902"
Don't you know that travelling men
generally report business good in
Decatur?'
Did you Investigate the "l3 DRINKS"
arrested on Sunday. Oct. 25th and
find that The Sunday converts seem
to predominant among the arrests?"
Don't you know that the names of
those "13 DRINKS were taken at the
time of their arrest and are kept in
a. record at police headquarters?
Don't you know that the names of
the Sunday converts" were taken
and a record made and is now in my
office and the same has been carefully
examined and the name Of not one of
those "13 DRINKS" was found in said
record?
Are not YOU or some of your liquor
graduates responsible for the down
fall of said 10 drunks," or at least the
larger part of them?
Why didr't you tell Mr. Jersey the
number of arrests for drunkenness
since May 18th as compared with the
corresponding time last year, under.
the same mayor and police force?
Don't you know that from May It'll.
1908, 10 this date, 1866 arrests for
drunkenness have been made and dur.
ing the same time last year 497 arrests
were made for same offense?
Whom do you mean by down and
out politicians and blackleg lawyers"
who got into the Sunday band-wagon
TO ride into Office?
Don't you know, Mr. Hill, that any
gentleman who aspired for office in
this county on any ticket this fall