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Presence Excites Bottle OwnersExodus Toward Country isPrecipitated—LocalsMelee-tf»lt;CItfcItt(! A free for all battle that threat* end to develop outside of the Ross Garden dance pavilion was nipped in the bud lust night when Sheriff J B. Watkins and Deputy Hen Heilman collared the battlers before b more than a half dozen blows hadbeen struck.Two local yniths became embroil-ed with several West Pointers and.t the Fort Madison “white hopes” | jwere being taken into camp by theheavier forces of their opponents.K dnforcemonta had started to move up to t ho line of battle but beforethe rally could be executed thecounty officers interrupted and puta stop to the light by arresting several of the participants.The lads slipped out of the sheriffs car where they had been placed “If they kept traveling at the rate they started out,” the sheriff said today, “they should bo pretty close to the Canadian line by nowIn the absence of Special Officer Johnst t: who formerly kept the eye of the law over the West l’olutdances, Sheriff Watkins consentedto act as guardian of the peace last night. He took Deputy Ben Heii-|man along for company.| As soon as they arrived word spread through the crowd » that a force of federm and county agouta were preparing to curb the liquor activities in the vicinity of the pavilion. *’Immediately there was a rush tocars and many drove away to return a little while late..“When they returned I couldn’t hear any bottles (linking,” one bystander said, “but if my hearing was a little better I could almost swearthat there were several bottle chimes and jug clankinga floating through the air when they drove away* f
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Fort Madison Weekly Democrat
Fort Madison, Iowa, US
Fri, May 30, 1924
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