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WILL Be SOLD.
DISPENSARIEs WILL BE RUN IN
CALHOUN COUNTY.
Chief Justice Pope Sets Aside Gov
ernor Anscl's Order Closing Them
and Throws Them Wide Open.

ernor Anscl'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
houn County dispensaries will be
kept open and the new county will
enjoy the evenu 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 d~ispensary board of
Orangeburg County was not mention
ed in this order, AID 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 be 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 dispen-
~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 1t may be advised
Mr.. WEIGH was in the city Wednes-
day and had a conference with the
county board relative to the situa-
ton, the result being satisfactory to
all parties. The board has been will
ing all along to continue shipping
whiskey to the Calhoun dfspensaries,
and the places at St. Matthews and
Fort Motto we're ordered closed SOLE
" upon Governor Ansel's opinion
that Calhoun was dry territory and
his order to that effect to the board.
No resistance will be made to JUS
tice Pores order on the part Of the
board of this county, which will con-
tinue to have supervision over the
Calhoun dispensaries. The view taken
Is that this is a matter affecting only
Orangeburg and Calhoun counties
and the matter has been adjusted TO
the satisfaction of both. Calhoun
will derive a evenu from the retail
sales of liquor at her dispensaries,
while Orangeburg will make a proht
on the wholesale end.
Orangeburg County, We suppose
will have to take out a wholesale IL
cense now that she is selling liquor
Inv the wholesale to another county.
II would be well for. the commits
sioners tn look into this matter and
fix the price of their liquor according
w. As there is no limit set in Chief
Justice Pope's order, We suppose 1t
will run indefinitely, and therefore
the dispensaries at St. Matthews n
Fort Motto will be kept open until
the Legislature meets and the detects
in the law remedied. The following
is the last order Of Chief Justice
Pope:
al. That the county dispensary
board for Orangeburg County Great
ed and existing under the Act OF the
General Assembly, commonly called
and knowna as the Carey-Cothran ACT
do from and after the date hereof
and until further ordered, contln-
ue TO perform and exercise its duties
under said Act i'll the territory taken
from OrangeburG County tn form Eai-
houn County, the same as il SAID ter
ritorv taken to form Calhoun County
was still a part of Orangeburg Coun-
ty: $500,
80 II IS further ordered that said
county dispensary board for orange
hurg County do continue as hereto
fore. and until further ordered 10
supplv and furnish, in the manner
now provided for by law. to the dis
p~ensaries in Calhoun County all the
liquors and other alcoholic beverages
now under the law allowed to be sold
in the Dispensaries and necessary 70
the continued conducting and opera
ting of said d~ispensaries as hereto
fore. and while the same was IN Or
augsburg County.
"3. It is further ordered that the
county d~ispensary board for Orange
burg County be made a party to the
proceeding herein. and that a cop!
Of the petition herein. together VIII
the order signed by me on the lHh
day of March, 1908, he served upon
the said county dispensary board 1of
Orangeburg County, together with a
CODY of this order. and that the III
county board have leave to make
such return herein as it may be ad-