CLOSES SALOONS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 97, 30 May 1914, Page 3

CLOSES SALOONS.

WOMAN MARSHAL TOO ACTIVE. So far as popular opinion =goes, Miss Blanche lngalls, the new Marshal of Chesaning (Michigan) >• is a; success, but the village trustees-are : said to be devising ways of superseding * her, comments .the Chicago "■Tribune.'? • Miss Ingalls, who owes her appointment as,guardian of.the peace -to criticisms -in her newspapei*,- the Chesaning '' Monitor,'' feels that * she miist, as a matter of principle, go ahead with the performance of her duties. When Miss Ingalls caused general surprise by- accepting-thei appointment, she asserted that things.would '.'.pop,' Land developments'have -made good* her promise. Never before has the village had a marshal so thoroughly conversant, with village ordinances and so" insistent on their enforcement."

Miss Ingallb -found that the : four saloons," patronised not only, by residents of 4Jhes.an.ing .but by.. hundreds; of pilgrims from dry. territory on Saginaw 'county, - were closing- at later hours than the- ari!---.----ice prescribed. Her notices, delivered ini perao'n, were, sufficient to bring: themvstrictly to tune and to cause card games in thirst parlours to cease.' /■' " ■

Humane notices have been posted, and more than one man has ,;•; been . called isharply to account for; heaving a horse or team unblanketed-on' the street. Notice has been, promulgated that, children unaceomp'a'niejd by their .parents • must stay dway from" 1 the depot and cease catching rides on ; vehicles. ; • -; Responds to Night Calls. The marshal'has responded to ten calls, -two :of them • at ; night and one. after 11 ; o'clock, but .has not yet found it necessary to hale an offender into court. She "is- diplomatic, although 'determined. . The, men ."of the..' village have been on their good .behaviour because .of a wholesome respect forthe marshal and a .desire to support her in law enforcement. • ~ -' ; ;v V" ' > ".'•■ •Since it has been bruited about the State that a -woman, presides over - the-, public morals of Chesaning, bibulous per' sons:from', dry counties .have not visited the village in such large, numbers, and those whqiiave come have been extremely cautious. Orgies of the sort /that a.few weeks, ago were not infrequent are; nOw rare occurrences. , ; ~.•/. One young farmer of reputed pugna-! cious .disposition, who was advised by the . marshal to leave a, room where, he was! creating a disturbance,',''massed v' her... A moment Jater he. was. eojl^red. by a feminine, hand, led; to .the door,.' and •Warned-that,, it- -would, not be safe,..:for iiim to remain in town. He.Went home. Cut Down Her Bills. ' The . councilmen' have; observed Jthd 'activity of the new \> marshal wit"h s su'rX prise, and the trustees Jiave been bantered on the subject Until it has' ttecpnie"a burden. At its last'meeting the council held lip the marshal's bill of 2dol a day for, 16 days and clipped 12dol from it. Some