The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-03-27
WILL Be SOLD.
DISPENSARIES WILL BE RUN IN
CALHOUN COUNTY.

Chief Justice Pope Sets Aside Gov
ernor AnseI's Order Closing Them
and Throws Them Wide Open.
By the grace of Chief Justice Pope,
who is generally on the side Of the
dispensary in his decisions, the CAL
noun County dispeIsaries will be
kept open and the new county will
enjoy the revenue therefrom. 1t
will be remembered that Governor
Ansel ordered the dispensaries at st.
Matthews and Fort Motto closed, but
later on Chief Justice Pope issued
an order restraining the dispensaries
at those places from closing their
places of business as ordered by the
Governor.
The county Gispensary board of
Orangeburg County was not mention
ed in this order, and the question
arose as TO whether or not the board
could continue to ship liquors into
Calhoun county under the provision
in the Act creating the new county
that the dispensaries were to he run
as formerly. before the new county
was formed.
The whole question was to ,have
come up before Chief Justice Pope
on Tuesday but it was postponed, but
Mr.. Welch representing the disper-
saryites of Calhoun secured another
order from the Chief Justice direct
ing the Orangeburg County board to
continue to supply liquors, etc, to
the Calhoun dispensaries until the
further order of the Court. AS will
be seen from the order, which IS
published in full below, the board
is granted "leave to make such re-
turn herein as it may be advised.
Mr.. Welch was in the city Wednes-
day and had a conference with the
county board relative to the sltua-
tion, the result being satisfactory 10
all narties. The board has been will
ing all along to continue shlpplns
whiskey to the Calhoun dispa2sarles'
and the places at St. Matthew and
Fort Motto were ordered closed sole
~ upon Governor Ansefs opinion
that Calhoun was dry territory ana
his order to that effect to the board.
No resistance will be made to JUS
tice Popes order on the part OF the
hoard of this county, which Will con-
Time to have supervision over the
Calhoun dispensaries. The view taken
&c that this is a matter affecting only
Orangeburg and Calhoun countess
and the matter has been adjusted 10
the satisfaction of both. Calhouh
will derive a revenue from the retail
sales of liquor at her dispensarles'
while Orangeburg will make proht
on the wholesale end.
Orangeburg County, we suppose,
will have to take out wholesale IL
cense now that she is selling liquor
by the wholesale to another county
# would be well for the commits
sioners to look into this matter and
fix the price of their liquor according
ly. AS there is no limit set in Chief
Justice Pope's order, We suppose it
will run Indefinitely, and therefore
the dispensaries at st. Matthews and
Fort Motto will be kept open until
the Legislature meets and the defects
in the law remedied. The following
is the last order of Chief Justice
Pope:
Il. That the county dispensary
board for Orangeburg County, Great
ed and existing under the Act of the
General Assembly, commonly called
and known as the Carey-Cothran Act,
do from and after the date hereof,
and until further ordered, contin-
ue to perform and exercise its duties
under said Act in the territory taken
from Orangeburg County to form CAL
houn County, the same as If said ter
ritory taken to form Calhoun County
was still a part of Orangeburg Coun-
ty:
'2. 1t is further ordered that said
county dispensary board for Orange
burg County do continue as hereto
fore, and until further ordered, to
supply and furnish, in the manner
now provided for by law, to the dis
pensaries in Calhoun County all the
liquors and other alcoholic beverages
now under the law allowed to be sold
in the Dispensaries and necessary to
the continued conducting and opera
ting of said dispensaries as hereto
fore, and while the same was in Or
angeburg County.
"3. 1t is further ordered that the
county dispensary board for Orange
burg County be made party to the
proceeding herein, and that a copy
of the petition herein. together with
the order signed by me on the l1th
day of March, 1908, he served upon
the said county dispensary board for
Orangeburg County, together with a
CODY of this order, and that the said
county board have leave to make
such return herein as it may be ad-
vised."