Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-12-09
OHIO COUNTY.
ALVEY Protest Against Open
ing u Saloon.
Correspondence of the Register.

CORRESPONDENCE Oh
PoToMAC, W. Va, Dee. >.
We have had more than usual inter
est in our village for some weeks past.
4 Mr.. Seurs from Wellsburg, Brooke
county, some time since purchased a
small house and lot here, it WAS said,
for the purpose OF establishing drink
ing saloon. As soon aS the fact Was
known in the community very nearly
all of the better citizens III ana around
the village signed Il petition, earnestly
asking the honorable Board Of Commits
sioners of this, Ohio county, 10 revoke
the license that had been granted Tor
this purpose. lor more than month,
while the question was unsettled, this
was the leading subject OF consideration
when citizens met, and do not know
that ever | saw our good quiet citizens
SO generally aroused ON any question,
and so determined II possible 10 save our
community and especially the youth,
from this blighting curse.
Our village Is situated on the north
east corner OF the county, where
Brooke and Ohio counties touch the
PENNSYLVANIA line III Washington
county of that State. Neither Brooke
nor Washington counties grant license
for dring saloons, and this one would
not only have been in Il place where it
could have commanded the patronage
of all the dram-drinkers III this end ol
these two counties, but 1t would have
been i'll region OF our own county
where such nefarinus business has not
been carried on for near Il quarter oI a
century. Hence the very thought oi
such thing III our community shocked
the whole people, with here and there
an exception, and caused them To arise
and enter most solemn protest against
| the whole thing, aS IN every way an
| outrage on the community, and danger
GUS to the well-being Of our people here
and hereafter. The friends, too, of
| morality and religion, at West AlcXan-
der, Pa, at West Liberty and at
| Bethan in our own state, and
near enough to be cursed by
such an institution cam nobly to our
assistance, and made their power iclt for
| good in this effort to save the morals OF
| the rising generation.
At West Liberty, on the west, Il dis
| lance from here Oi about three miles, is
| one of our State Normal schools, sup
| ported by the taxpayers ot our State,
| lust about far enough for wild and reck-
| less Young men To- 90 Tor Il high To
| have these Normal students, whom the
| State is educating for teachers of our
| children, thus exposed and let oil from
| the path of rectitude and made Il curse
! rather than a blessing tn our state would
| seem to be more than the taxpayers
would long endure. Then again ut
Bethany, four miles to the north, is To-
Gated the most noted college ot our
State, having annually from one hun
| drrd to q hundred AID fifty Young men
from all parts of our country and the
| British possessions on the north, and
occasionally from Australiaand Europe,
within her walls.
| To allow drinking saloon to hc So
| near would not only encourage the law
less and depraved, hut expose scores OF
others who are young and unsuspcct-
| ing To a most dangerous evil | do not
wonder, then, that the faculty and all
the better citizens of that place entered
~
ing Of any such license.
Ca last Monday, the 2nd inst, the
matter was fairly brought before the
commissioners bv the petitioners,
though Mr.. Whitman, our commission
er whose manly action i'll the case won
for him golden opinions, and hc will
hereafter he kindly remembered by all
good citizens OF this community.
When the question of rcvoking the
| license was put Ia vote We under
stand that unanimous was the vote Ia
revoke For this we feel thankful Ia
all the commissioners, and hope that
We shall never again hc called upon To
enter our protest against such license.
But should occasion ever again demand
it at our hands we shall not hy any
means shrink from our duty in the case.
NoN.