The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-08-20
FIFTEEN PROHIBITION
SIX FOR DISPENSARY
RESULT OF TUESDAYS LIQUOR
ELECTIONS.
Light Vote Was Polled Throughout
the State.-No Excitement in
Any of the Counties.

Fifteen Of the twenty-one wet eoun-
ties of the state voted for prohlbl-
tion in the elections held in those
counties on Tuesday, SIX OF the coun-
ties voting to retain the dispensarles.
A igat vote was polled throughout
the State, and there was no excite
ment in any of the counties.
The lineup was as follows:
For Dispensary-Aiken, Beaufort,
Charleston. Florence, Georgetown and
Richland.
For Prohibiton-Abbeville, Bam-
berg, 3arnwell, Berkeley, Calhoun, Col
Teton, Dorchester, Fairfield. Hampton
Kershaw, Lee, Lexington, Orangeburg,
Sumter, and Williamsburg.
The votes in the various counties
were as follows:
Abbeville, complete, Dispensary
SIG. No Dispensary 749. Total vote
in primary for governor 1908, 1925.
Aiken. with all accounted for ex-
cept Is votes. Dispensary l,3oo, NO
Dispensary 1,l48. Total vote in pr1-
mary for governor 1908, 1871.
Banberg. omplete, Dispensary lo2,
No Dlspens4Iy 663. Total vote in prl-
mary for governor 1908, 1,192.
Barnwell. Is out Of II, Dlspensary
537. No Dispensary 8o6. Total vote
in primary for governor, 1908, 2,lol.
Beaufort. complete, Dispensary 2U'
No Dispensary 239. Total vote IN
primary for governor, 1908, 0l3.
Berkeley, complete. Dispensary 2lO'
No Dispensary 553. Total vote IN
primary for governor 1908, l,2O4.
Calhoun, complete. Dispensary 2I2,
No Dispensary 2S6. Total vote IN
primary for governor 1908, 797.
Charleston. Dispensary 1868, No
Dispensary 81. Total vote in prl-
mary for governor 1908, 5,l48.
Colleton. % out Of 26. Dispensary
179. No Dispensary 729. Total vote
in primary for governor 1908, 2,'62'
Dorchester. 13 out Of IA. Dlspen-
sary 495, No Dispensary 664. Total
vote in primary for governor 1908, l.
400.
Fairfield. II out of Is, Dispensary
126. No Dispensary 706. Total vote
in primary for governor 1908, 1912.
Florence. complete, Dispensary 8o3,
No Dispensary $50. Total vote in
primary for governor 1908, 2,431.
Georgetown, complete. Dispensary
$50. No Dispensary 361. Total vote
in primary for governor 1908, 1,467.
Hampton. Is out of 20. Dispensary
17S, No Dispensary 594. Total vote
in primary for governor 1908, 1,754.
=: Kershaw. one small box missing,
Dispensarv $40. No Dispensary 674.
Total vote in primary for governor
1908. l,4O5.
Lee, complete. Dispeasary 3O4. No
DiSpensarE $50. Total vote in prl-
mary for governor 1908. 1856.
Lexington. 3 boxes missing. Dis
pensarv 702. 40 Dispensary 1.164.
Total vote in primary for governor
1908, 3,811.
Orangeburg, complete, Dispensary
$50. No DiSpensary 1920. Total vote
in primary for governor 1908, 1922.
Ricnland. complete. Dispensary 956.
No Dispensary 746. Total vote in pri
mmary for governor 1908. 1896.
& Sumter. one small box missing, Dis
ensary 3S2, No Dispensary 559. To-
BBal vote in primary for governor 1908,
1880.
Williamsburg, 1 out of p, Dispen-
sarv 1919, No Dispensary 308. Total
vote in primary for governor 1905,
3,239,,
The dispeuSary at Abbeville having
been voted out. there will be no whis-
key legally sold in South Carolina
above Columbia. Abbeville having
been the only upper county which
had retained the dispensary up until
the time Of the election. Abbeville
llAIis not poll nearly her full strength,
Gibiton won by the decisive
Fv of over 200
S.ote in all Of the counties was
than in the primary last year,
n several Of the counties it was