Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2015 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== East Shore News Pentwater, Michigan Friday, February 23, 1872 ALONG THE SHORE - Ludington Complaint has been lodged against eight or ten of our criminals, who are transgressing the law by selling liquor. We call them criminals because they are disobeying the law. The law makes it a crime punishable by a fine, to sell in- toxicating drinks. Those who trespass against the law, are therefore criminals. The Sheriff arrested several of them, TRACY C. SMITH, being the first, who paid his fine, $25 and costs, amounting in all to $27.45, and departed, a wiser, if not a better man. Several others were also brought before the Justice of the Peace, who pleaded "not guilty," and had their cases put over to a future day. The citizens of the surrounding country have been fleeced out of enough money by these poison vendors, and are determined to close them up. The movement seems to have the sanction of all lovers of "law and order." H. C. DUNNING, "one of 'em," whom the Sheriff was after, decamped for other fields of glory. He says Ludington is a "damned mean place." It is reported that his "woman" runs the traffic in his absence. The ball begins to roll lively, and the liquor sellers have each subscribed $10 apiece to get a lawyer from abroad. Look out for the fun ahead. - Record. ===========================================================================