Complex sentence: By November 1909 seventy of Indiana's ninety-two counties were dry; however, in 1911 a Democratic legislative majority replaced the county option with the Proctor law, a less-geographically restrictive local option that reduced the number of dry counties to twenty-six.
Split into simpler sentences: By November 1909 seventy of Indiana's ninety-two counties were dry. In 1911 a Democratic legislative majority replaced the county option with the Proctor law, a less-geographically restrictive local option, and the number of dry counties was reduced to twenty-six.