St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-18

lucky to get into the ranks of proh!.
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 rs per cent. of the state
is dry under a county option law.
In Mississippi GO cut of rs counties
are already dry, and a state prohi-
bition campaign is being waged with
every prospect of success.
Florida has "a out of its AZ counties
dry, and Gov. Broward is actively lead
ing campaign for state prohibition.
South Carolina recently repealed its
famous dispensary law and substituted
local option by counties. A movement
for state prohibition has just started,
and IL out Of II counties have voted
for no saloons. A large percentage of
North Carolina has no saloons and the
the prohibition campaign is active.
Virginia has u dry counties out of
11S. West Virginia has 80 out of SIS,
and Gov. Dawson is actively fighting
the liquor traffic.
Fourteen of Maryland's % counties
are dry; in Delaware the election last
month resulted in about half the towns
going dry,
Louisiana has Ii dry parishes and
parts of others are also dry, and it is
Illegal to solicit orders for liquor in
any of the dry districts.
Missouri's local-option law has made
Al of her 115 counties abolish saloons.
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
spartiy dry and only ~ are totally wet.
The sale of liquor on dining cars is for
hidden, and a 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 a 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, 600 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 prohibition state, has
65 out of SO counties dry and II other
counties have only one saloon each.
Wisconsin has $50 dry towns. Mich
igan, under county option law, has
only one dry county.
A prohibition wave is rolling through
Illinois; eight counties are totally dry,
while six allow saloons in only few
precincts.
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 1875 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, but
has recently begun a vigorous closing
of saloons on Sundays.
New York has township option. un-
der which 602 towns in the state have
no saloons.
Only "a towns in Vermont allow
liquor to be sold. New Hampshire is
nominally a prohibition state, but only
81 per cent of the population lives in
really dry territory. Massachusetts,
has $50 dry and 100 wet towns. Con-
necticut has So dry towns out of 176.
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