Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-01-08
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lucky to get into the ranks of prohi.
bition states.
Georgia became a prohibition state
| on New Years day, and the law
is so drastic that wine cannot be used
at communion services in churches,
nor can druggists sell any form of
liquor except pure alcohol.
In Alabama Is per cent of the state
| is dry under a county option law.
In Mississippi 68 out of IS counties
are already dry, and state prohi.
bition campaign is being was.d with
every prospect of success.
Florida has "a out of it's AZ counties
dry, and Gov. Broward is actively lead
ing campaign for state prohibition.
South Carolina recently repealed it's
famous dispensary law and substituted
local option by counties. A movement
for state prohibition has just started,
| and II out of al counties have voted
for no saloons. A large percentage of
North Carolina has no saloons and the
the prohibition campaign is active
Virginia has Y dry countl1s out of
118. West Virginia has 80 cat of Us,
and Gov. Dawson is actively lighting
the liquor traffic.
Fourteen of Maryland's Is counties
are dry; in Delaware the election last
month resulted in about half the towns
going dry. -
| Louisiana has 10 dry pa:ishe. and
parts Of others are also dry, and At is
illegal to solicit orders for liquor in
any of the dry districts.
Missouri's local-option law has made
Al of her lis counties abolish salcans.
Sunday closing even in St. Louis is
vigorously enforced.
| Texas is one of the most notable
examples OF the revolution, for LAT
counties are absolutely dry, So are
partly dry and only Al are totally wet.
The sale of liquor on dining cars is for.
hidden, and traveller on train may
not even drink from his own flask.
Oklahoma has just adopted con.
stitution that forbids the sale of liquor
Kansas is prohibition state, and
the last of the "speak-easy" saloons
has just been suppressed by popular
opinion.
Nebraska has local option by vii
lagos and cities; 400 are dry, 900 wet
South Dakota is about one-quarter dry
North Dakota has been prohibition
state so long that in some of the
counties there no jails.
= Minnesota has 1913 dry towns and
rigid Sunday closing.
Iowa, once a prohibition state, has
65 out Of 80 counties dry and II other
counties have only one saloon each.
Wisconsin has $50 dry towns. Mich
igan, under a county option law, ha.
only one dry county.
A prohibition wave is rolling through
Illinois; eight counties are totally dry
while six allow saloons in only a few
precincts. e..
Six hundred and eighty of Indiana's
1,016 townships are dry, and the tenn
perance people expect to increase the
license fee to $1,000. =.
In Ohio lao out of 1876 townships
are dry and 60 per cent. of the mum
cipalities. .. .
Pennsylvania seems little affected
by the temperance wave, but there is
one dry county.
| New Jersey has no local option, bu
has recently begun a vigorous closins
of saloons on Sundays.
| New York has township option. I'm
der which COZ towns in the state have
no saloons.
Only "a towns in Vermont ALLOW
liquor to be sold. New Hampshire i.
nominally prohibition state, but onl!
81 per cent. of the population lives i,
really dry territory. Massachusetts
has $50 dry and 100 wet towns. Con
necticut has SO dry towns out of 176