West Liberty History 1838-1938

Source: One Hundred Years of History
* Commemorating a Century of Progress in the West Liberty Community * WEST LIBERTY, IOWA
TEMPERANCE LEAGUE

This league was organized by a band of Christian men in 1874, for the purpose of enforcing the temperance laws, with John E. Deemer as president; E. E. Harrison, secretary; J. L. Wilson, treasurer; Jonathan Cowgill and John Lewis, counselors.

It had a membership of 106. They hired lawyers to defend the temperance law and to assist in it's enforcement, paying the fee out of their own pockets.

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