Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-01
DRAWS WHICH MAUI LIQUORS 70
THIRSTY CITIZENS VIOLATE
STATE LAWS.
MUST GET LICENSE OR QUIT,
RULES LAWYER MAYOR
Logan's Chief Executive lssues Viii
matum to Draymsn Of Town Who
ACT a. Co Between For Brewors and
Private citizena, Discovers an Un-
known Statute.

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which enmeshes the myriad liquor laws
OF Iowa some light OF the bar Char is
used In the legal sense )has developed
a clause which makes hauling liquor
from the freight shed to the cellar of
the thirsty violation of statute and
that individual who formerly depended
upon the United States mails md the
railroad companies for his supply OF
drinkables from the hop crop has been
dealt solar plexus blow.
The mayor OF Logan and leader in
the anti-wet crusade in this munich
pality, c. A. Bolter, happened on to
this law. He is a lawyer as we'll as
mayor and as soon as he found out and
stated Just what could be done he
was hailed with acclaim similar to
that which greeted Cook when he made
the discovery he told about. Logan is
dry and it likes that parched feeling
Naturally. when something was found
to insure continuance of dryness it
rose as a unit and rejoiced.
Then when Mayor Bolton made
known to the public what he had
found he proceeded to acquaint those
who should know with just what the
laws meant.
Draymen Prohibited.
Calling the draymen of the city be-
fore him he issued his proclamation
also his ultimatum-namely and to-
wit: II you haul liquor to the one
who orders 1t you are no better than
the man who sells liquor over the bar
to the one who orders 1t; therefore.
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in liquor or you must quit dealing in
liquor. Or in other and palmer words.
If you continue to deliver liquor to the
man whose name is on the case you
take from the freight office. you will
be arrested for selling without license
in a dry town and you will be sent into
a Jail cell there to reflect upon the
errors Of your ways.
The warning was sufficient. Dray-
ing business has been pretty good here
to dray thought they could spa1e the
time necessary for O period In jail
so they quit hauling.
Wouldn't Haul Empties.
The fear OF law was sent so deeply
into the soul Of one that he refused
even to haul "empties." For the sake
Of the unititiated 1t is explained. that
"empties" are those bottels which.
when they came, carried beer, but
which have been emptied. One ipdi-
vidual who liked to keep a supply In
his cellar, had q good sized stock on
hand when the Bolter edict was issued
He continued to drink when he felt
Hike It until the supply was exhausted.
Then he wanted to send them back to
tho brewery in another city. and get
credit there on his next case beer.
he summoned drayn1an. a Used
his desire and gave him orders'to get
busy with the "empties." The spirit
was willing. but the flesh was weak,
and the law was plain.
"No, can't do it, said the drayman.
And what's more he wouldn't haul
those bottles until the owner thereof
had promised to protect him II he
needed any protection, and just to
make the promise good he went to an
attorney and retained him to appear
for the drayman at his-the owners
expense, should any trouble result.
The express companies can send IL
quors from the places of shipment to
Logan, but the expressman can deliver
them no further than his office Then
If the man who ordered them needs a
drink ne has to take his wheelbaJrow,
trundle it down to the express office
and get the stuff himself.
Here Bolter is supreme, the liquor
law is enforced and lemonade is the
popular summer drink