The Cairo bulletin., 1908-01-13
DRY SUNDAY VASE
WET; ALSO QUIET.
BAD WEATHER AND CLOSED
SALOONS COMBINE TO MAKE
DAY UNHAPPY.
NO CRACKSIN The lid"
Even the Tri-City Park Oasis Was
Closed Tisht-only One Arrest
and That Was Not Drunken.
ness-Few Visitors.

When is a dry Sunday not a dr.
Sunday? When it rains and SHOWS.
And when 1t rains and SHOWS on /
dry Sunday in Cairo things lool
awfully blue for the man, who ever
since he can remember, has spent the
greater part of past Sundays in some
comfortable salon over a social glass
or game OF cards.
The first Sunday the lid was
clamped down proved to be beauti.
full day and old Founders who hadn't
taken Sunday walk for years and
years got out and looked over the new
improvements in various parts of the
city Yesterday they couldn't do that
with any degree Of comfort and as one
said he didn't care about looking at
the town as he had seen everything
worth seeing the Sunday before.
Yesterday there wasn't wet" spot
figuratively speaking, in Alexander
county. The Tri-City park. where lid
filters made merry the Sunday pre-
vious had the lid sign hung out a
minute after IL on Saturday night.
Tamms and other places up the coun-
ty also had the Sunday closing law
into effect good and hard and indica-
tons are that as long as the saloons
here are closed they will be in these
other places.
At the last session of Circuit court
the grand jury, moved by the temper
ance wave, started to find some true
bills against the saloonkeepers of the
county because they were open on
Sunday. but on second consideration
they thought that unless they found
indictments against the ones In Cairo
IL would be, TO say the least. rather
bad form. But now since the lid is
on here the men who run dram shops
under county licenses have decided
that discretion is the better part of
valor.
According to the saloon men the
trade in the bottled line was heavier
Saturday night than on the previous
week. This is explained by the fact
that week ago many tried the dry
Sunday as an experiment and that
they ddi not find it altogether pleas
ing.
Yesterday there we're no arrests
made for drunkenness. In fact there
was only one arrest made. A negro
woman with a cocaine jag threw a
brick at negro man and is in the
city Jail awaiting trial on the charge
Of disorderly conduct.
The number of visitors from sur
towns was noticeably
smaller yesterday. Last week many
came because they had not heard of
The closing order and there were
others who thought that ont of Cairos
So places of liquid refreshment there
might be found at least one where
drinks could be secured. They were
and didn't return yester
lay.
So far as could be learned there was
not a single crack yesterday in the
I'D. the saloon men evidently being
sincere in their ideas that
a closed Sundy will bring them open
week days later on.
The only place of amusement open
to the public was the poolroom on
Eighth street. II was closed the Sun.
day before by order of the chief. but
II is said there is no law against pool
rooms keeping open on Sundays. and
yesterday 1t was thronged with young
fellows all afternoon and until late
hour at night, Offering shelter from
the bad weather for many and an op-
portunity for diversion to those who
cared to play pool or billiards.