Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1904-10-27

oxoected that in 1905 .ne entire sta'e
will be dry. How does this strike you
rwentv-,hree counties in the state nave
not single convict in the penltentlary
under the local option l-w while San
Jacnto county has twenty-five convlcts
in the penitentiary under her license
system. 90 to and to 25 is the pro-
portion
Garland is a town of 100 inha bitants.
It was whisky town, but not long
since the good people ran King Alcohol
ont and it resulted as follows: Crime
ceased and business revived. Soon the
Iaboose was ordered to be sold as 1t
was Of no further use and the mayor
boueht it for 81 so and converted it into
a woodhouse. There had been 10
violations of the law in six months
when 7 heard from there last? Why
will not prohibition work as well IN
Heppner? Let US make 1t WORK.
Reference R. H. O'Ury, Dallas, Texas.
Tennessee has only twelve whisky
towns in all the state under local optlon
law. Covington is larger town than
Heppner and here is how prohlbition
has rnined that town: The Covington
banks show the largest lndlvloual ue-
posits in their history at the end OF the
drst s;x months after saloons went out
Of business. There is not single va
.ont bonse in town. CovinCton Leader.
Humbolt, a town OF 24Q0 in my native
co,ntv need 10 be a very dieorderiy
town before it went dry. Last night
dec. 81 closed the holiday fFs'ivltles
and also MARKS the closing of the quiet
ast Christmas IN the history OF the
town. The merchants all shared IN the
increased business of the teaSon,
brought about, presumably, by the
little savings made possible through
the lack of the open sa'oon. Mash
Vile American.
Rrownsvil is a beautiful school tow
|, Of perhaps $500 Inhabitants During
: the past week we have put ourselves tt
some trouble to look into the matter II
= der to be in a position to inform the
= neo,,la as to how the new law is work
: mo We are not in favor of any Law
I that does not bear fruit for good. Int
r nractical test is the test. First, w
went to the court records, for 1t Is recog
Q pized that the court docket, where Ia"
' are enforced as they are in this com
:, munitv. ia the register of the morals Q
: the community. Here we found tina
; from lime l. 1902. TO JAN /, 1908, dur
mo which time we had the saloon, ther
wore 1873 fines imposed in the municlpa
i court. while fron June |, 1908, to jar
loO4 peliod in which we did n
have the saloon, there were only 6e
o IN tha month of December 1902, ther
, were 26 fines, while the past December
t 1909 without the saloon, there wef
only five. Figures, they tell u.s. DO nc
lie. and the figures say that the moral
of the community have been infinite |
. Improved by getting rid of the salool
he Then we went to the merchants for
recognize the fact that if you wou'
''e touch the hearts of the people, touc
let their pocket-b book, and we inquired
}" them how trade had been this fall
nc compared with last. Their aimo'
w universal answer wac from 10 TO 20 pc
cent better. There has no outside ii
ay fluence been brought to bea' upon tn
situation, but the closing OF the sa'oof
Wa oo,c,,s;on
You can draw yonr own conc'usioh'-
a.
Brownsville Tribune.
viii an increase in trade to our me-
es-
chants ruin the town?
"e LESS Drunkenness and more bus
~ pess was the record of Tu'lahoma IN
VIC mast vearn and there were no saloons
says the Tullahoma GUARDIAN JAN
lie,