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

the distilleres will go We have organ
. lied an Anti-saloon League"
HENDERSON-A. r. Love; Hender.
son is dry for the three distilleres closed
on July first Hendersonvile is dry but
we are troubled with liquor brought from
Ashevile Our streets are free from drunk
en- brutes and ladies and girls can walk
there at any time unmolested."
IREDEGIA-J A. Hartness: mot a
drop sold in the county. special act
for Statesville did the work. / never ex-
pect to see a drop sold in the county"
JOHNSTON. M. Beatty: Johnston
is in good shape. The day of the bars has
passed We have Anti-Saloon Leagues in
Smithfeld, Clayton and Selma"
LENOIR-T. b. Hall: wish we could
make a good report, but we are moving
Sometime ago our mayor winked at the
bars and our council gave us no relief.
We are better off now and sLllls are pro-
hibited and bars regulated. I think the
league will overturn the liquor forces"
McDOWELL.-C. G.. Cashwell: Until
recently ten distilleries in the county, one
in Marion and seven bars. The Watts bill
Strengthened this out and things look
brighter for Marion where sentiment has
been made by suicides from drink nearly
every SIX months for two years aud a
half"
MECKLENBUG.-J ]. Williams: Char
lotte has no Anti-Saloon League but /
am sent here by the A. r. P. second
church The bars are regulated and there
is growing sentiment for prohibition
/ suggest that in your work you recognize
the value of the laboring man. Don't de-
pend on the preachers, the lawyers, the
doctors but on the laboring people,
MOORE.--G. r. Wente: II started in
the Anti-Saloon League in Ohio South
ern Pines will drive out the liquor traffic
and the day will come when no liquor vail
be sold there; from it young men are
perishing, young women being de-
bauched .
! NASH-L. t. Nash: "The county is
dry. / am just from the firing line where
in Rocky Mount we met the enemy and are
therein. A still has been licensed in the
Edgecombe part of Rocky Mount. We
will yet redeem the place and the banner
will not trail in the dirt.
NEW HANOVER. H. Smith "Wil-
mington is controlled by saloons, and We
are under the terrible curse of whiskeY.
Aid us to drive it out and as Wilmington
is relieved so will be the State. We have
organized a league with one hundred
members.
NoRTHAMPToN-N. w. Britton.
"Whiskey' is sold in four places, two dis
pensaries. We have no county organiza-
ton for temperance. but in the eastern
part there is a union Of three or four
hundred people The temperance senti-
ment is on the increase" 4
ORANGE-C. D. Turner: II hail from
Hillsboro, where the sound of the hammer
was not heard for $50 years, but we are
now rid Of the liquor traffic Hillsboro
is dry as Mother Hubbard's bone
PAMLICO-Clifton Sawyer: f'No whiskey
sold except at county seat Temperance
sentiment is growing
PERSON-W. G. Dyer 'There has beer
much manufacturing in Person, but not
row. The saloons N RoxDoro will be put
out. A petition has been made against
them" Just here gentleman arose and
said that he had learned during the morn
ing that while the town commissioners
had licensed bar rooms in Roxboro. the
County Commissioners had refused to
agree (Cheers.)
Pitt. J. Barker: Pitt is organized. |
Bethel is prohibition by special act The
temperance sentiment is growing"
RANDOLPH. C. McAllister: INC |
temperance
RICHMOND G. Britt: Eleven bar
rooms five or six stills. big one in con-
struction in Hamlet, where distiller, Mr.
Lackey, seems to control Both Hamlet |
and Hoffman seemed controlled by whis-
key. We hope by dispensaries to crawl
OUT
ROBESON-O. j. Peterson 'Robeson
is all right, but our trouble is because of
trains on which liquor is brought in by
people in Jugs in sacks from Hamlet We
will stop this and it may be that Nh
Jockey himself will be indicted. for we
have mayor with backbone"
ROCKINGHAM H. Sharp: "Wc
have seven towns, two without liquor, one
fight IN Reidsyilie We hope to drive out
liquor. The Watts bill has driven the
stills to Virginia and there is complaint
there"
ROWAN N. Stallings: 'SThe county
is in good shape, but the distilleries hope
to join the bars in Salisbury. / know
Salisbury is bad. but | have now heard
from Asheville and Wilmington"
SAMPSON. L. Shinn Sampson is
in good shape The moral forces are at
work there =
SCOTLAND-Hector MeLean by spe-
cial act we are free from bars and stills.
We want to help other counties. Remen-
Der what legislature has brought you tbs
far; go carefully or you may defeat the
cause"
SURRY-J Walter Long: "Dobson is
dry and the Watts bill put the stills to
flight. Now our only trouble is the stills
in Yadkin."
UNION-N. S. Ogburh: 1--WE had dis.
pensary in Monroe. but the liquor men
thought it too good and petitioned for an
election. The dispensary was voted out,
but our County Commissioners will grant
no liquor licenses. One man is determined
to run still, but it must go. All town
ships except two are organized and we
have an Anti-Saloon League in Monroe
The outlook is bright"