The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-06-23
ING THE DISPENSARY OUT
berry, Spartanburg, Colleton and
Others to Hold Elections.
S and Courier.

mites, in which the movement to
L the out dispensaries, is taking
Unite shape, having been definitely
erd from as to the progress of the
rk that is being done. Yesterday
ports were printed from number
counties indicating the situation
1t this particular time The three fol-
Moving notes will be of interest as in
dicating the general movement that
is now in progress:
The correspondent from Newberry
writes:
Newberry Enthusiastic.
In reply to your inquiry as to the
proposed election of dispensary, |
would say:
The dates for the election will
have to be fixed by the supervisor;
but the petitions will be presented to
him on the 24th, and it is expected
that the election will take place about
the last of July or the first of August.
The movement is getting on splen-
didly. Already more than a thousand
signatures have been presented, and
the work of the committee is not
nearly done-at the end of the week
it IS confidently expected there will
be more than fifteen hundred sigma
lures. The registered vote of the
county is about three thousand. Very
few persons decline to sign the pc
tition. AS to the names of the most
active workers-the list would be too
long, but the following may be men
toned: G. F. Long, R. T. c. Hunter,
Jno. c, Neel, A. C. Jones, Burr Stock
man, J. B. Fellers, w. l. Herbert, D.
O. Wilson, J. T. Thornton, J. VIM
Smith, w. H. Sanders.
"1he prospects now are that the
county will go against the dispensary
by an overwhelming vote"
System in Spartanburg.
The Spartanburg situation is re-
ported to be as follows:
"Jas. H. Carlisle, Jr,, is the chair
man of the committee to get petitions
for election on dispensary question.
The registration lists carry about
10000 names. The petitions have
26oo But the duplicates and de-
ceased are on the registration lists.
They have never been corrected.
When q voter dies no note is made on
The precinct poll list. When one
moves from one precinct to another
his name may appear on two lists.
It is believed that the 10000 will
shrink as much as Zenophon's ten
thousand did, and that there are real
" not more than 5000 bona fde reg
istered voters in the county The Pc
titions will be sent out to the pre-
.cincts in order t'lat they may be COM
pared with the list of living regis
tered voters. They wish to be sure
they are right before they go ahead.
So you may see that the day of elec-
tion is in the future
Count on Colleton:
From Colleton comes this state
n1ent Of the situation:
We have not exactly decided on
what date we will hold the election
respecting the dispensary, or no dis
pensary, but presume that it will be
he1d some time in July at time when
il wifi be most convenient for the peo-
pie ia the rural district to attend the
election The petitions are being cir
cu1ated in the county, and, judging
from the common reports, we are of
the opinion that we have the required
number Of Signatures at this time.
Capt. H. D. Padgett and ]. c. Pad
gett were the orignators of the idea
in this county. and are pushing the
petitions for all they are worth. l
think it IS safe estimate TO say that
there is not one man in ten, who does
not speak in favor of moving the dis
pensaries from the county, and offer
ing their services in the fight for the
removal of this gigantic fraud be-
lieve that when the election is held,