Memoirs of the Miami valley . ight waxed very fierce, but theDrys won in the ballot, following the campaign. The heat of thecontroversy was by no means cooled, however. The liquor trafficmonster was still wriggling its tail, and the campaign had to beprolonged in pursuit of blind tigers and boot-legging, the climaxbeing reached in the shooting of Robert Young by James Pergrin,a reputable citizen and member of the town council. Young recov-ered, and Mr. Pergrin was promptly acquitted. The blind tigerwhich Young maintained was several times raided by the womenof Belle Center, and by citizens, bu
Memoirs of the Miami valley . ight waxed very fierce, but theDrys won in the ballot, following the campaign. The heat of thecontroversy was by no means cooled, however. The liquor trafficmonster was still wriggling its tail, and the campaign had to beprolonged in pursuit of blind tigers and boot-legging, the climaxbeing reached in the shooting of Robert Young by James Pergrin,a reputable citizen and member of the town council. Young recov-ered, and Mr. Pergrin was promptly acquitted. The blind tigerwhich Young maintained was several times raided by the womenof Belle Center, and by citizens, but it was not driven out for sometime. Young at last removed to Columbus, where, eight years ago,he became a convert to Billy Sundays preaching, and during thewet and dry campaign of October, 1918, he was a leader amongthe dry forces. James Pergrin also went to Columbus, embarkingin a successful heavy hardware business there, and one of his goodfriends is Robert Young. Rev. E. P. Elcock and Rev. Huston, both of whom removed to. THE STORY OF LOGAN COUNTY 273 points far distant from Belle Center, were prominent ministers thereduring the prolonged struggle between the liquor faction and thoseopposed to it. Thomas C. Danforth was the mayor of the day. Itwas about 1903, during the closing scenes of the excitement, thatthe present editors and proprietors, J. R. and M. J. Martin (Mr. andMrs. Martin) bought in both local papers and continued their pub-lication as the Herald-Voice, a wide-awake paper, and devoted tothe best interests of the town. Of the three founders of the paper,Guy Potter Benton has for years been the president of Vermontuniversity; Dr. George Wood Anderson, whose mother still lives atBelle Center, is a noted evangelist, and was in Y. M. C. A. service inFrance during the war with Germany; Ralph Parlatte, erstwhileprinters devil, and now a famous humorist and lecturer, is editorof the Lyceumite, at Chicago. Among other products of its fertilecountryside—where, they s
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