Stubborn saloonkeeper refused to play nice

Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 2 p.m.

Very few of Portland's saloonkeepers threw firecrackers at the ladies of the Women's Temperance Prayer League and called them 'damn whores' when they came by to hold prayer services at their bars. But, with apologies to Montgomery Gentry, there's one in every crowd ... and it was usually Walter Moffett. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1874) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1902b.temperance-wars-2of4-534.html)