Prohiition

PROHIBITION

In Vinton

The presidency of the local chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union is not listed by actuaries as an especially dangerous occupation. Yet Mrs. C. B. Cook of Vinton, Ia., found it so. She became an active Prohibition crusader, aiding and abetting enforcement agents in every way. Then the grim train of events began. One Sunday evening returning home from services at the First Christian Church, she found her house defaced with fragments of more than a dozen putrescent eggs. Next day she had the egg stains removed and, undeterred, continued on her course. Last week, returning home one evening from a meeting of Sunday School teachers, she arrived just as a thunderstorm burst. She lit a light and sat down to sew near a window. Above the roar of the thunder, there was the crack of a shot. Through the fractured window, a bullet sank into her heart. The assailant escaped.

"She was a martyr to the cause of Prohibition," declared Mrs. Abbie Anderson, who is Recording Secretary of the Iowa W. C. T. U.

She was buried with full honors by the W. C. T. U. and the Ku Klux Klan, of which she was a member. Six masked Klansmen in regalia were her pallbearers.