Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1908-01-09


South Carolina recently repealed its
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 72 dry counties out Of
11S. West Virginia has 80 out of 55,
the liquor traffic.
Fourteen of Maryland's 20 counties
are dry; in Delaware the election last
month resulted in about half the towns
going dry.
Louisiana has IS dry parishes and
parts of others are also dry, and it is
illegal to solicit orders for liquor in
any of the dry districts.
Arkansas has 60 out of rs counties
dry and many dry towns in the others.
Missouris local-option law has made
| A of her lis 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
partly dry and only AZ are totally wet.
The sale of liquor on dining cars is for
hidden, and traveller on a 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, GOO 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
60 out of SO counties dry and IL other
counties have only one saloon each.
Wisconsin has $50 dry towns. Mich
igan, under a 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
LOIS 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 NUM-
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 vigorous closing
of saloons on Sundays.
New York has township option, I'M
: der which 602 towns in the state have
no saloons.
Only "a towns in Vermont allow
liquor to be sold. New Hampshire is
nominally 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
. and every saloon must be run by its
Z actual owner. About half Rhode Isl
9 and is dry.
p In Colorado, New Mexico and Ari
$ IONA the Anti-Saloon league has
r started campaign that has already
s resulted in the passage of local option
q law in the aforementioned state. IL
Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah
although the saloons run about as they
like, they are beginning to realize tina
sentiment is changing. The Mormon
II church is fighting them, and the TEN
perance people have already per
: suaded Idaho to adopt a Sunda!
closing law.
On the Pacific slope California ha
. four dry counties and much dry terri
tory in the others, while in Oregon /
" counties are dry and 40 municipal
., ties in the Fl wet counties are ais
u dry, Washington has only so dr.
towns.