Nov 9
ONE OF MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER, LUCY WILHOITE’S ARRESTS
“Carrie Nation and Associates pray behind grated doors. Wichita, Kansas, on September 30, Carrie Nation, Mrs. Lucy Wilhoite, Mrs. Lydia Mounts and Mrs. Mary McHenry broke two large plate glass windows in the Mahan Wholesale Co. Is warehouse today. They were arrested and are now in jail. The women have been in prayer most of the time since their arrest.
Nov 9
Lucy Wilhoite later came West and became a minister, still continuing the fight against booze as president of San Bernardino County’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.
One day in 1932, her 83-year-old husband got into an argument with a man about Prohibition and was arrested for threatening him and using profane language. City Attorney Edward E. Gray said Wilhoite was ‘‘intoxicated with anger.”
Given the choice of a $60 fine or 30 days in jail, he stubbornly chose the latter.
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