Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-02 | Page 31 | Wisconsin Town 'Wet' following Big Raid

WISCONSIN TOWN -WET' FOLLOWING BIG RAID (N. I,. . staff SpeclalA HURLEY, Wis. Feb 2 'The wet-' Leal town in the l nited States" re- taint its title despite a "dry cleaning' ' ' j'l seccntly by prohibition officials. ! H Flftv federal agents took two dray H loads of ' hootch" away and an- 'H nounced that It was ' thoroughlt But liquor passes over the bars of ' H 3S saloonn nightly. 1 IH The prohibition agents had not left Irqnwood, Mich . across the river, with H 62 prisoners and evidence before Hur- ley began a "wake" lo mourn the de- H Battles are tipped, cards are dealt 1 jH for stakes, shots are fired, and the jH night is made hideous with braw ls. (B A movie director would not have to E erect any seLs here for scenes In a H "bad man" movie EloUgh frame buildings erected for H saloons, dance gamblina in uSS ' iH Hurley has gone thioiigh the lra.ns1- tlon from lumbei camp to mining J town The characters about the bar- SH are garbed in rough clothes and heavj. H Kobert M IFollette. when gov Or- H nor of Wisconsin, sent special agents Into Hurley to clean il up after local The reform lasted two weeks drttll jf the H A "straight gambler" dominatee H And the men of Hurley laurh as H the wait for another 'rlran-np."