Saloons in Big Rapids and any articles in the news
Saloons 1907 - 1908
1. Gust Warner - Marion
2. W.B. Hosier - 615 N. State
3. Bert & wife Evaline Courtright - 701 East Maple
4. Louie Johnson - 109 N. Michigan
5. Frank Oshinski - 122 N. Michigan
6. M. Morrissey - 114 N. Michigan
7. Murdock & Taggerts - 108 N. Michigan
8. Louie Johnson - 213 Maple
9. Gus Zetterstedt - 127 N. Michigan
April 30, 1837
Only a small number of Big Rapids voters were expected at the polls today to vote in the question of selling beer on Sunday in the city. A check-up at noon revealed that the total votes cast at this time was 321.
The election is a straw vote and is being held so that members of the city commission may know whether the majority of Big Rapids residents want beer to be sold in the city on Sundays. The city commission will decide the issue.
April 31 1837
The proposal to sell beer on Sunday in Big Rapids was defeated in a straw vote Friday, 520 to 321. Voting was light in all precincts with less than 850 votes cast, which is approximately one third of the city's voting population.
1910
Saloon licenses to the number of 17 have been taken out in Mecosta county thus far this year.
1930
If Mecosta County has to replace the plumbling in the county jaik, if the fish in the Muskegon river act strangely, or if the river itself has a peculiar aroma today theres a reason. That reason is the destruction yesterday of more than //41,000 worth of liquor and rum manufacturing apparatus - part of the seizures made in the past ttwo years by the sheriff.
