Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-06-10
Temperance Topics.

The Wheeling lntelligencer says that
manufacturing company recently sought
site for a new factory in Bellaire, but when
| the promoters found that it was dry
town they declined to locate there for
fear that taxes would be too high, and
went elsewhere. Wonder why they
didn't go to Wheeling, where there are
enough saloons and breweries TO pay all
the taxes, if the Intelligencer's implied
theory is correct? Will wet Wheeling's
tax rate be any lower than dry Bellaire's?
Well bet money that il will not be.
Randolph county, the largest county in
| the State, will be "dry" the ensuing year.
The dry council of Elkins having refused
to recommend license for that city, the
| court determined to grant no licenses al
all in the county, and the sixteen appli-
cations presented on Monday were all
turned down. The Mineral county court
on Monday refused to grant license for
the coming year, and seventeen saloons
in Piedmont and Keyser will have to close
the first of July.
BY vote Of "a to IA the city council OF
Charleston, this State, refused to grant Ii
cense to sell liquor Monday night. I'm
less the council reconsiders, it will knock
out brewery, five wholesale liquor
houses and fifty saloons. An effort was
made by the liquor advocates to submit
the question of license or no license to
the vote of the people, but il was turned
down. And yet, somehow, we can't
believe that Charleston is going dry.
Mass Miller, a Hagerstown saloon
keeper, was arrested on Tuesday and
held for court on the charge of conduct
ing disorderly house and allowing per-
sons habitually disorderly to congregate
about his place of business. This is a
terrible blow at personal liberty of the
sort advocated by the Hagerstown Mail,
for the court took away the saloon-keep-
er's license, closed up his place, and ad-
vised him to leave town.
The city of Youngstown and county OF
Mahoning, Ohio, voted wet yesterday
after strenuous local-option campaign.
Youngstown, with $4,000 population, is
the largest city the temperance forces
have yet tackled. A big distilery, two
large breweries and 300 saloons, aided
and backed by the whiskey and beer in
terests from all over the country, fought
for their lives and won by 1869 majority.
George B. Survick, Hagerstown sa-
loon-keeper, was fined 500 and costs
last week for furnishing liquor to be
drunk by minor-a young woman who
had been induced to 60 to his saloon. It's
a cold day when the Hagerstown rum
shops do not furnish at least one good ar
gument for the temperance workers.
An Anti-Saloon League has been Or
ganized in Point Pleasant, w. Va, which
is probably the worst rum-Soaked town
in the State, and many of the n:ost infu-
entail men Of that section have joined
hands to bring ABOUT temperance reform.
There's work to do in Point Pleasant.
The temperance people of Parkersburg
made strong effort to have the city coun-
Gil refuse to grant liquor licenses in that
place, but the liquor people won out.
Yet vote of the people on the question
would probably make the town dry.
The temperance people of Virginia are
arranging TO hold local-option election
in Staunton in the latter part ofJuly. The
"wets'' have petitioned for an election in
Bristol on July 9Th, and will try to carry
that city for whiskey.
Councilman Thomas Anderson, of the
Clarksburg city council, who was sup
posed to be a "dry" man, voted with the
"wets" Monday night, and 81 wholesale
and retail liquor licenses were granted.
The county court Of Berkeley county
on Monday granted license to three
wholesale liquor dealers and to twelve
whiskey saloons-all in Martinsburg.
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