The Dry-Years Fight at the Strength the Record Reaches

1875–1917 at directory strength · the 1875 Atlas; Polk 1880–81, 1882–83, 1884–85, 1916–17; Chapman (1880); Wineries & Distilleries lk-win-saloons

Lakeville's moral-regulation record, dug to documented size, is a saloon trade that thins to nothing in the directories three years before national Prohibition — and a temperance fight that no reached carrier documents, whose absence now prints with its whole evidentiary frame. The commerce first, at the strength the banked saloons article already proves and this section adopts as its foundation: a saloon keeper stands in the 1875 Atlas's Union directory (name unrecoverable from the OCR text; settler the atlas page images); Polk 1880–81 names Glassour Charles, saloon; Polk 1882–83 and 1884–85 name Walters George, saloon; Polk 1916–17 names none — Smith C. H.'s cigars only. Against the directories stands Chapman's 1880 village census naming no saloon at all; the conflict prints whole in the owning file and is not merged here. The law's limb then prints at its reached size: no remonstrance petition, local-option election, township temperance society action, or commissioners' licence fight naming Union Township was found in the carriers searched in the banked pass or in this section — the negative stands at web-search strength, and this article does not promote it. What can be stated at documented size is the shape the fight would have taken and the record that would carry it: Indiana's licence and remonstrance course ran through the County Commissioners, and a township fight of the class would stand in the Commissioners' record and in the town's own paper. Both settlers are named and current: the St. Joseph County Commissioners' record, and the Lakeville Standard via Hoosier State Chronicles — the Standard's run not being among the titles the Chronicles programme lists as digitised in the access record read in this section, the limb banks with that residue stated expressly: the directory course is dug whole; the fight limb remains a named residue on the two settlers named, and the saloon's quiet disappearance from print by 1916–17 is the whole documented course the open record gives.