The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01

years ago when the state began licens-
ing liquor traffic.
The state liquor license commission
and liquor licensing board in each
| A prohibition commissioner and an
| organization of district deputies and
inspectors will take their places.
| County Option Cut Number.
ST. Paul, Mimi. March 1.-Eighteen
| hundred drinking places in Minnesota
will go out of existence when prohi-
| bition becomes effective. County OPP
ton and orders of the state public
| safety commission reduced the number
! OF wet" spots until Minneapolis and
| st. Paul became the real strongholds
| of the liquor interests.
Hotel and saloon men of the Twin
Cities are making preparations to re-
model their bars Some will be con-
verified into small dancing rooms, 9TH
ers into dining rooms, and still others
| into soda shops.
| Many places long connected with the
| early history of the northwest will
hold farewell rallies on June 80. 9th
ers already have been closed thru
| county option. Among those closed by
| county option are the notorious inns
| at Moorhead, East Grand Forks and
| Breckenridge, along the Minnesota
| border. For years the floating workers
| from the harvest fields gathered for
| gay times at the House of Lords, The
| Palace of the Norwegian Prince, the
! Bucket of Blood and numerous other
| place where every bartender was a
| sharpshoter.
! saltwater, thick with salonos in it's
| early lumber days, has reduced the
| number to less than a dozen.
Trotsky Should Lose.
1
| state, the closing of the Oasis the
only bar for miles, will result in a
loss of $4,000 license fee to the little
village of Trotsky. The hundred-foot
| bar is often lined three deep and then
| ten barboys refuse to mix drinks ex-
cept on dull days. Because of tho
high license fee. the tax levy on resi-
dents is only 10 mills.
Police officials say that a number
OF sources of annoyance will be .elimi-
mated with the closing. They point to
two places in the Dayton's Bluff dis
| trict of st. Paul. I'm one the Irish
from Connemara Patch drank red
liquor in preparation for meeting
delegation of 'Swede Hollow boys who
collected courage at Ole Swenson's,''
said a police official. ''They had their
weekly battles
Among other widely known places
that will close are Jimmy McDonald's.
where the reign of terror started in
St Paul and Minneapolis three years
ago by Montana Pete and his pals was
| ended by a triple killing when detec-
! tives and the outlaws shot it OUT in
true western style; and Chick g
= Place, where the famous Alice McQuil-
liam Dunn murder was plotted and for
which the woman's husband, two bar
| tenders and a notorious gunman are
serving sentences.
Milwaukee Famous No More
| Milwaukee, Wis. March while a
| number of small hreweries already are
making preparations for complete
transformation when prohibition closes
Wisconsin's 1865 drinking places,
most of the big breweries of the state
are quietly awaiting Developments
The PabSt brewery, however. has
rented part of its space to a shoe fac
tory and motorcycle shop. and a
brewery at Portage has disposed of its
fixtures and sold its kegs Liberty
concern has been formed to promote
4 patented process for preservation
of eggs. and several other breweries
are said to be planning to turn to this
industry. The Hussa brewery at Ban
gor has converted its plant into a
pickle factory, and a pioneer brewery
at BLACK River Falls is being made
over into a cold storage plant.
| While the majority of the saloons
in Wisconsin will be closed up, a num-
. tinuing in connection with restaurants
as soft drink parlors.
/. The Schlitz Palm Garden in Mil
waukee will be a soft drink emporium
according to the manager The Forst
Keller, another well known place, ex-
poets to substitute soft drinks for the
| beverages now served. Many widely
known places within a fifty mile drive
of Milwaukee, established at a great
expense. probably will be discon-
. | tinued.
There are more saloons in Wiscon-
sin in proportion to the population
than in any other state in the union
, according to the Wisconsin Anti
Saloon League. Eighty per cent OF
the states saloons are located in what
is known as the Lake Shore belt. Sta
tistics show that one-sixth of all beer
made in America is brewed in Wis
consin. They also show that only Is
) per cent of the male population who
| are p years or more are native born
of native parents. Forty-two per cent
: are foreign-born and 40 per cent are
5 native of foreign and mixed parentage
according to these figures. Fifty-one
: and four-tenths per cent of the popu-
lation is SAID to be either German
born or of German extraction.
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