The Journal Leon, Iowa October 25, 1883 ELIZABETH PARKER, of New Buda Tp., by her attorneys, Young & Parrish, has filed a petition in the District Court, the trial of which will come off at the next January term, in which she claims that she is the wife of JOHN PARKER; that they live on their farm in said township; that F.H. MCKEEHAN for two years and more has been engaged in selling intoxicating liquors at Davis City, Iowa, that the said F.H. MCKEEHAN knowing that PARKER was in the habit of becoming intoxicated, has sold him intoxicating liquors by the drink, and in large quantities to the value of $100; that in consequence of said sales the plaintiff has been damaged by loss of money, property and the reputation and good behavior of her husband to the extent of $3,500, and she asks that the judgment may be made a lien on the building in which said whiskey was sold. This is the first case of the kind ever brought in Decatur County, although quite common in other parts of the state, and we learn it is to be followed by several others of the same nature by some here in Leon. At the last term of the Clarinda Court one woman obtained judgment for $1,000, with three whiskey men, one an ex saloon keeper, on the jury. A few verdicts of that kind would do more towards the suppression of the sale of intoxicating liquors than a dozen indictments. ----------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert December 31, 2009 [email protected] Never under estimate the power of a woman!!!!!!!!