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1923 · CLAY TOWNSHIP
At the small end of the dry economy stands one house: the big red-brick Talley house on Juniper Road near Cleveland Road, about a mile north of Notre Dame — township ground, printed here with its boundary stated. In 1923 the house changed hands again, passing to the Talley/Chirhart ownership; the new owner, in the account Dorothy Corson assembled from the Historic Preservation Commission's record and the St. Joseph County Public Library's newspaper biography file, served homemade wine and Hungarian food to Notre Dame students and other guests in the basement during Prohibition, and the house became known as a speakeasy. The practice ended the way the record says such practices ended: the owner was arrested for bootlegging. No name, charge detail, or disposition for that arrest survives in the account reached, and none is supplied. The entry stands at its documented size — one house, one arrest, the student trade of a dry decade walking a mile out of the city to drink in a basement.
Sources:
- Dorothy V. Corson, A Cave of Candles, ch. 4 (University of Notre Dame) — citing the Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and the St. Joseph County Public Library newspaper biography clipping file