Water instead of whiskey
The Woman s Christian Temperance Union fountain in Orange was erected in 1904. Contributed photo/Janice Lanou
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In the center of Orange is a stone drinking fountain with a history all its own. The fountain was erected by the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in town. “The WCTU fountain has been a fixture in the center of Orange since 1904, although not always in the same location,” said Janice Lanou, member of the Orange Walking Tour Brochure Committee. “If you look at old postcards of downtown Orange, your eye eventually goes to the fountain, dwarfed by the Lamb’s block at the corner of West Main Street and South Main Street. Time proved it to be an unsuitable location as the fountain was damaged several times by large trucks turning the sharp corner in front of it. In its present home, diagonally across the Square, it is safe from traffic and is more visible to the public.”
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On June 5, 1900, a woman dressed in black stepped into a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas. The towering figure, standing over 6 feet tall, carried an armload of heavy packages wrapped in brown paper. “I don’t want to strike you, but I am going to break up this den of vice,” she told the owner, just before chucking one of her packages behind the bar, shattering the large mirror and toppling liquor bottles. The men fled, leaving the woman to meticulously smash every bottle of alcohol in the saloon.
This was no spur-of-the-moment bout of bar vandalism. It was just the start of Carrie A. Nation s crusade against alcohol.