The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-03-21
FULL RETURNS OF
LICENSE VOTE
OF STATE
Does Not Show Expected Gain
For No License
FEWER TOWNS VOTED YES
But Among the Towns Favorine IL
cense are Several Heretofore
Always Voting No.
FEWER TOWNS VOTED YES

St. Adams, March 19.-The Mes
senger is able to give today complete
revised returns of the liquor license
vote in every town and city in the
state This vote was held March 3.
with the exception OF the town of Cor
NTH, where owing to Il defect in the
warning, the meeting was adjourned
to March H.
The complete returns printed to-
day for the first time by any Vermont
newspaper, are given for the benefit
of those who may desire to keep a
permanent record of the vote on this
question taken each year in every
town and city in the state.
These returns show q license
towns this year compared with S3 last
year, the smallest number of any year
since the present liquor law was
adopted. This year one county, Chit
tenden, shows a majority for license.
Last year every county in the state
showed no license majority
Three counties are dry this year.
Caledonia, Orleans and Windsor, the
same number as last year. when Gale
donia, Lamoille, and Orange were sol
idly for no license. Caledonia county
is the only county in the state that
has voted solidly for no license every
year under the new law. This year
Grand Isle, Lamoille and Washington
counties contain one license town
each. Last year Grand Isle, Orleans
and Windsor counties contained one
license town each.
On the east side of the state there
are seven license towns as follows
Canaan and East Haven. in Essex
county, Braintree and Corinth, in
Orange county; MiddleseX. in Wash
ngton county; Somerset and Vernon
in Windham county Last year there
were eleven license towns on the east
side.
The license towns on the west side
of the state number twenty, COM
pared with twenty-five last year, and
are as follows: Hancock and Shore.
ham. in Addison county; Bennington,
Pownal and Searsburg, in Bennng'
ton county. Burlington, Colchester,
Richmond, and Shelburne, in Chitten-
den county; Bakersfield Highgate
and Swanton in Franklin county; Isle
La Motto, in Grand Isle county;
Stowe in l.amOile county; Brandon,
Castleton, Poultney, Rutland city
Wells, and West Rutland in Rutland
county.
Twelve towns and cities Bakers
| field, Braintree. Brandon, Burlington,
Colchester, Corinth. Poulmey, Pownal,
Richmond Searsburg, Stowe, and
Swanton, this year change from no
| license to license.
The following seventeen towns and
cities. Arlington, Brighton, Barre city.
| Fair Haven. Jay. Middlebury, Pitts
| ford, Rutland town Richford, Rock
| ingham, st. Adams city, st. Adams
town. St. George, Starksboro, Sunder-
| land, Victory, and Woodford, turned
| from license 10 no license.
| This year Braintree and Corihta
| voted yes and Arlington, Fair Ha'
ven. and st. Adams city voted nc
for the first time.
The total Yves" vote this year is
1901 and the total no vote is 2S,o6i
the mo" vote exceeding the yes
vote by 9.045 votes The total vote
cast this year was 47,047.
| The referendum vote of February 3,
1903 which in effect, adopted the To-
cal-option-license law, was yes 90,
| 711a mo-, 2S,9S2. majority OF 729.
In 1903 the total yes" vote was 30
36S, and the total no vote 25,053
the total yes vote exceeding the
total mo vote by 5,3l5. In 1903, SO
the total no vote exceeding the to-
ed no. In 1904 the total yes vote was
21735 and the total no vote 2S,662
the total mo" vote preceding the t..
tai yes" vote by 6,S27 In 1904, 81
towns and cities voted yes" so vot
ed mo and one town, Brunswick
did not vote AT all In 1905 the total
yes" vote was 20,929, and the total
mo" vote 26,949, the total no vote
exceeding the total yes" vote by 6.O2C
In 1905, "a towns and cities voted
yes" and 2l2 voted no. In 1906 tho
total yes" vote was 1896. and tbs
total mo" vote 27904. The total mo
vote exceeding the total yes vote by
| 1868. In 1906 80 towns and cities
voted yes" and 2i6 voted no, on'
town, Leicester, failing to vote on the
question In 1907 the total yes vote
was 1880 and the totai no Vot'
was 1882 the total mo- vote exceed
ing the total yves" vote by $500. II
1907 33 towns and cities voted yes
and 2l3 voted no.
The total vote cast on the license
question, 47,0i7, is only 66 2-3 pc
cent of the total vote for governor II
1906. which was 70,i93. and is no
largely in excess of the vote cast 70
Fletcher d. Proctor, which was 42,332
Always Voting 'Yes."
Five towns and cities, Bennington
Canaan, CastletPn, Hancock an'
Shoreham, have always voted yes.
The following lac towns have "a
ways voted no: Addison, Albany
Alburg. Andover, Athens, Baltimore
Barnard, Barnet, Barton, Belvidert
Benson, Berkshire, Berlin, BLOOMFIELD
Bolton, Bridgewater Brookfeltt
Brookline, Bloomington, BrunsWict
burke Cabot Calais, Cambridge
Coyondieh Charleston, Charlotte
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