SCOUTING YESTERDAY | Teetotalling mayor helps cops raid Sunday saloon
This week in South Dakota history: Aug. 29-Sept. 4
A police raid on a scofflaw bar that took place in Sioux Falls 125 years ago doubled as a political boost for the city’s teetotalling mayor.
After already fulfilling a campaign promise to shutter the city’s saloons on Sundays, Sioux Falls Mayor George Burnside led area law enforcement in a bust at one of many new bars turned social clubs that began to popup after he took control of City Hall, according to the Sept. 4, 1900, edition of the Argus Leader.
