The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-06
DECISIVE VICTORY
AGAINST
Raleigh Yesterday Voted Them Out by Ma
iority of One Hundred and Ninety-four
for Dipensary.

| shall appoint three commissioners from
| the voters of said city or town, who, in
the election, voted for said dispensary,
Whose duty it shall be to conuct such
dispensary unGer such rules and regula-
tions. and with such officers and en-
| ployes as may be prescribed and allow
| ed by the governing body OF said city or
town, who shall fix the compensation OF
said commissioners and their officers and
employees.
No liquor of any kind shall be sold in
said dispensary on Sunday or election days
| and said dispensary shall never be open
or liquor sold therein before sunrise or
after sunset on any day. The prices at
which said LIQUOR shall be sold shall be
fixed by the dispensary board Provided,
all sales shall be for cash and at a profit
not to exceed eighty per centum of the
cost thereof. No liquor shall be sold in
said dispensary except in unbroken pack
ages or bottles, which shall contain not
less than one-half pint and not more than
one quart; and it shall be unlawful for
said manager, or any other person. to
open any such package or bottle on the
premises; and the said manager shall not
allow loafiRg lettering or drinking on the
premises; and any person drlnkink liquor
on the premises, and any person refusing
or failure to leave said premises after be-
ing ordered to do so by said manager,
shall be guilty of misdemeanor. and find
not more than fifty dollars or imprison-
ed not more than thirty days. 1t shall
be the duty of the manager to keep
a register on which shall be
kept a record of the names of
persons to whom any liquors are sold, the
quantity sold, price paid and date of
sales: Provide further, that said regis
ter shall be open only to the inspection Of
the dispensary board and its employees,
and the contents thereof shall not be pub
iished. No intoxicating liquors shall be
sold to any minors, and the dispensary
board shall make such rules and regula-
tons not inconsistent with this act as
may be proper for the management of the
1ispensary If the manager or clerk shall
procure any intoxicating LIQUORS from any
person other than those that the dispen.
sary board shall direct, and offer the same
for sale, or shall adutefate or cause to
be adulterated, any Intoxicating, spiritu-
Gus, vinous or malt liquors, by mixing
with coloring matter or any drug or IN
gredient whatever, or shall mix the same
with water or with other liquor of differ
| ent kind or quality. or shall make false
entry in any book or returns required by
this act, he shall be guilty of a msde
| meanor.
That in any town in which dispen-
| sary is established under the provision
| of this act it shall be unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation to sell or
| otherwise dispose of for gain any intoxi-
Ioa ut ha no
provided for sales in the dispensary as
aforesaid. Any person violating this sec
ton shall be guilty of misdemeanor. and
fined or imprisoned. or both. in the dis
erection of the court.
That said dispensary commissioners shall
make quarterly settlements with the gov
erning body OF said city or town, and that
said governing body shall, within ten days
after such settlement, pay one half of the
net profits of said dispensary into the
treasury of said city or town and the
other half into the treasury of the coun-
ty in which said city or town is located,
for the benefit Of the public schools of said
county.
That any officer or employe of a dispen-
sary established under the provision OF
this act who shall violate any of the rules
ing body of the city or town in which
said dispensary is located, or by the dis
pensary commissioners as herein provided
Tor, which said rules and regulations are
hereby declared to be ordinances of said
city or town, shall be guilty OF misde
meanor, and shall, ur conviction. be
! fined or imprisoned. or both, in the discre-
ton of the court.
| That thu o-~vorning body of any city or
town in which dispensary shall be es-
tabllshed under the provisions of this act,
| shall have power to fix the terms of the
| dlspensary commissioners provided for
| herein. and determine the amount of
horSs required from said commissioners
and officers, and shall have the power to
remove any or all of such commissioners
and any officers or employees appointed ny
such commissioners, for good cause shown.
WILL THERE BE A CONTEST?
Just before the polls closed in the sec
ond division of the third ward, a saloon
keeper rode up in great style, rushed
under the ropes, and speaking to Register
Scott asked:
"At what hour. were the polls opened
this morning.
AT eight o'clock-the hour prescribed
Dytne call, answered ReSiStldI oSoe''
Enter on your record the hour az
which the polls were opened" SAID the
saloon keeper.
"All right" said Registrar Scott, I am
putting on the record everything that oc-
ours concerning the election.
With that, the bar-keeper entered his
carriage and drove furiously away.
What does he mean?" asked by
stander.
.'Why, he is thinking about making a
contest because the polls were not opened
at sunrise"
els there anything in it, he asked.
Nothing in the world" said a gentle
man who was well posted.
AN OLD FASHIONED SCHOOL.
At times yesterday the second division
of the third ward had more the appear
ance of school room than of an election
booth. Quite a number Of negroes had
been challenged on the ground that they
could not read and write. In the manner
required by the Constitution. Whenever
that challenge was made, the poll-holdcrs
would trot out the Constitution, and the