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1880– · the drinking houses at the record's strength
The drinking course begins at Chapman's count and must honestly thin: two saloons stood in Walkerton in 1880 — Chapman counted them beside the hotels and stores — in a village of the railroad's first generation. What the record reached adds is mostly the legal frame: the Crime leg's Prohibition test returned zero prosecutions from this ground in the record it reached, and the Independent's 1901 columns place the trade's neighbors in one line — John McDanel's new news stand stood "one door north of Cripe's barber shop," the barber shop and the stand and the saloons of a one-street town. The succession of named houses — the saloons' keepers, the taverns that followed repeal, the present licenses — was not documented at directory strength, and it stands in the gaps register with its settlers rather than invented: the Polk gazetteer and directory runs, the excise record, and the Independent's advertisement columns across its run.
Sources:
- Chapman, History of St. Joseph County (1880) — the two saloons of 1880.
- The Crime leg of this build (the Prohibition prosecutions test: zero in the record reached).
- Walkerton Independent, 20 April 1901 (the news stand one door north of Cripe's barber shop).