Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-04-03
THREE FORMER SALOON
KEEPERS ARE FINED.
State Prohibition Commissioner With
Deputies Visits Hurley and Three
Are Gathered In.


of which proprietors of three soft
drink parlors, formerly saloons,
/ were hailed into court aud assessed
fines. SerafinO Castagna, prophet
or of the Liberty Bell on Fifth
avenue, paid n fine of 5000 and
Jack Goldberg paid fine of 500.
Prohibition Commissioner I. L.
Hazelberg of Madison led the
army" of invaders into Hurley,
but unlik> Dalrvmple of Iron River
fame he did not herald his pros
posed expedition to the world
through the medium of the world S
greatest newspaper" and other
purveyors of news. They dropp-
ed off here Tuesday morning, COM
ing from Ashland and immediately
set about to visit the numerous
beverage emporiums i'll the city.
1t is said that they visited all of
them during the day. They quietly
entered a place and made known
their identity to the proprietor aud
the purpose of their visit. In two
places, Castagna's 5 and Goldberg
they found intoxicatingliquor The
two named were arraigned ia
municipal court on a charge OF haV-
ing Intoxicating liquor i'll their
places of business in violation of
the state Muelberger law. Both
pleaded guilty and were assessed
the fines above noted, which they
paid, and the men were released.
1t will be noted that Castagna
and Goldberg were not charged
with selling Intoxicating liquor but
were charged with having it in
their places of business, which is
contrary to law, even though the
buildings wherein the so called
soft drink parlors are located are
also used as places of residence BY
the proprietors.
Commissioner Hazelberg was
assisted by Deputy Commissioner
Fred ]. Payson of Chippewa Falls,
Deputy Commissioner +. b. Blood
good of Whitewater and Federal
Enforcement Officer Frank Hass
of Houghton Mich.
Hazelberg and his assistants con-
tinued their operations in Hurley
for few days and also included
nearby towns, notably the village
of Saxon. In addition to those
mentioned above two other Hur-
leyites were gathered in on charges
of having intoxicating liquor in
tneirpossession. Wednesday morn
ing Joe DeIulio appeared in court
and following his plea of not guilty
his case was adjourned until April
Il. Thursday morning Stanley
Graiewski pleaded guilty to the
same charge before Judge Thomas
and was fined 500. Thursday
afternoon Bert Fowler was brought
from Saxon and assessed a fine of
800 and costs amounting TO 80. SO
following his plea of guilty to the
charge of having Intoxicating liqu-
or i'll his possession.
1t seems that except in two in
stances the booze" unearihed bv
the invaders was rot what is usu-
ally known as the real article. A
/ proprietary medicine called Cv-Co
was the undoing of these former
saloon keepers. The Cy-Co, it was
testified in court, was purchased
from travelling salesman 1t is
supposed to be medicine for
stomach and other ailments. Cold
berg testified that he purchased two
bottles of the stuff last February
for his own use. When the officers
visited his place he had Half a
bottle left. The same stuff was
found in Cas'agna 5 place, but
since it contains 10 per cent Of
alcohol it is Intoxicating 1t is
said that the label on the Cv-Co
bottle shows it to contain that
amount of alcohol. The former
saloon keepers claimed that they
did not know that il was intoxicat-