Iowa
Old Press
Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
April 9, 1908
SALOONISTS HEAVILY FINED
Council Bluffs Men Mulcted for Contempt- Spectators Condemned.
H.A. Larsen and Martin Jensen, proprietors of the Manhattan
saloon, were fined $1,000 each by Judge O.D. Wheeler of Council
Bluffs for contempt of court in violating an injunction against
their place of business. No defense was offered by either Larsen
or Jensen. When the judge announced the amount of the fine loud
applause broke out among the members of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, who were in the body of the court room, which
the judge stopped by hammering upon his desk. "That is
almost as grave a violation as the other," said Judge
Wheeler, turning to the women. "The court does not want such
expressions. He does not need it."
EIGHTEEN SALOONS ENJOINED.
Liquor Sellers Made Defendants on Charges of Evading Law.
Injunction cases brought by the civic federation against
twenty-two saloons on the allegation they were not living up to
the requirements of the mulct law were heard by Judge Bollinger
in Davenport. Permanent decrees were entered in eighteen cases,
two were dismissed, and two others were continued. The saloons
enjoined will be permitted to continue business as long as they
fulfull all the provisions of the mulct law.
First Civil War Nurse Dead
Upon the forty-first anniversary of her marriage, "Aunt
Becky" Young, the first woman to offer herself as a nurse
when the Civil War broke out, and famous as a leader of Red Cross
nurses in the conflict, died at her home in Des Moines, aged 76.
[transcribed by C.J.L., June 2004]