The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-09

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ume, to DR.. R. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
the bars and the stills. we hope for de
liverance."
CHATHAM. Dan Dawson "The
western part and siler City are all right.
We have no saloons in Chatham"
H. A. London: eve did not need the
Watts bill as two years ago | had passed
ia special act for Chatham. Ours is a
dryAcounty."
CLEVELAND-A. c.. IrvIn: I'VE want
to organize for temperance. The people
wlil act and the entire county can be
made dry"
CUMBERLAND-Q. X Nimocks I'VE
did not need the Watts bill as we had
special act. Cumberland is for tenn
! perance."
! CURRITUCK-E. S. Pearce: 1.-THE
Watts bill means distilleries must go. In
1899, ono township went dry. in 1898 an
other and now all viii be dry as there
is no town large enough to be incor
porated and we will have no distilleries
From 1896 to 1902 our real estate in
creased one hundred and fifteen thousand
dollars and personal property sixty-six
thousand as liquor went out. Currituck
has been virtually dry for three years. "
DAVIDSON. d. Arnold: .'Our peo-
pie are in earnest and Lexington is a dry
town. A league has been organized in the
county and the sentiment is for temper
ance, but the people must be kept from
le.largy. Prohibition does prohibit"
DUPLIN-A. d. Hicks: Il come from
the land of Strawberries and cantaloupes
The people are prosperous. for they have
learned that whiskey and prosperity don't
go together. Duplin county has led in
temperance The sentiment is there and
it grows We have the anti-jug law and
no dstilleries but one over in Onslow
worried us. but it closed the first of July
and church was organized there Sun
day " Here Mr. ]. w. Bailey announced
that Mr. A. ID. Hicks had been the best
temperance man in the last Senate and
should be returned.
DURHAM--C. j. d. Parker: Temper
ance is working in Durham. We have
temperance mayor and board of alder
men, elected not by the skin of the teeth
but by 300 majority. We surprised the
liquor peple and their projected celebra-
ton failed. With the temperance board
it means clean police who will report and
a mayor who will fine. The saloons from
twenty or more have been reduced and the
hours are from to s with stringent
regulations. The bar-keepers said the
board had to reconsider and | am sorry
that the lawyers aided them, but they
butted up against the wrong crowd. We
hope soon to have dry town. We have
got our feet on the neck OF the rampant
whlskey evil and we will keep it down.
We now give the boys in the saloon a
rest and soon it will be a longer one and
the old whiskey corpse will be a thing
of the past
EDGECOMBE-Bra Craig: Rocky
Mount is in Edgecombe and Nash. In the
Edgecombe part there is a still The
bars close at 8 and open at 5, but pretty
soon with the Watts bill we vii, close
them all. In one day .173 voters petr
toned against the still and saloons out Of
2S3 registered voters. The days of the
saloon are numbered in Rocky Mount. In
Tarboro there are bars with high license
and hours from to 8. We have an Anti
Saloon League of from three to four hun
dred made by two days canyassing.'
GASTON--H. f. Chreitzberg: by spe-
cial legislation we are dry, no bars, no
dlstileries, but prohibition. We had two
cases in the courts for violation and the
jury and judge put on the penalty. A pc
tition to the Governor has released one
man and we feel very sore about 1t as
our people, the pastor of the mans family
and others opposed this and are sorry the
Governor pardoned the man. Il he par
dons the other he will set us back and |
don't want to reflect on Governor Ay-
cock and mean no reflection. we are
going to organize an Anti-Saloon League.
GRANVILLE u. r. Pace: NO bars IN
the county. Only trouble is blockade dis
tIlleres in south side of Granville.
GUILFORD-J. r. Mendenhal The
people OF Guilford will stand by the Watts
bill though they preferred another"
GUILFORD-W. M. Bagby: Soon no
liquor will be sold in Guilford. The WINS
key traffic viii be driven from Greens
boro.
HALIFAX. w. Bagley Halifax IS
In the black belt and you know what
that means There is little sentiment
IN Halifax fer temperance. dlspensary
in Littleton, but Hobgood and Palmyra
have no bars
1ALlFAX-J. w. Morgan: We have
not effected an organization IN Weldon
and prohibition seems impracticable and
impossible there. We hope to get direc-
tons here how to proceed. We may be
able to get a dispensary.
HARNETT-J, A. Campbell: Il repre-