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1875–1917 · 1875 Atlas; Polk 1880–81, 1884–85, 1916–17; Chapman (1880)
The saloon record is a small conflict, printed whole. The 1875 Atlas's Union directory carries a "Saloon Keeper" at Lakeville — the trade is legible in its scrambled columns; the keeper's name is not recoverable from the OCR text (settler: the atlas page images, Union directory pp. 84, 90–91). Polk 1880–81 names Glassour Charles, saloon (and the volume's classified Saloons list carries "Glassour C, Lakeville"). Polk 1882–83 and 1884–85 name Walters George, saloon — Glassour gone. Polk 1916–17 names none — Smith C. H.'s cigars only, the trade's shadow without the trade. Against all three directory witnesses stands Chapman's village census, which names no saloon at all in its enumeration of the town's businesses — two country stores, a drug and hardware store, a hotel, shops, mills, and no saloon keeper. The tension is not resolved here: a census of trades taken in 1880 and a directory canvass of the same season may count differently what a town contains, or one of them may simply have declined to count it. Both stand. By the 1916–17 canvass the saloon is gone from the town's printed trade — three years before national Prohibition, at directory strength, with the temperance record below standing exactly where the search left it.
Temperance — remonstrance petitions, local-option fights, a township temperance society — stands negative at web-search strength: no Union Township temperance action was found in any carrier searched. The negative is printed at that strength and no higher; the records that would carry such a fight were not among them. Settler: the St. Joseph County Commissioners' record; the Lakeville Standard; Hoosier State Chronicles.