Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-07-08

the results already apparent Last Dbl
urday night the stores were getting the
money that has heretofore been wasted
in liquor and the families OF the commun-
ity were receiving the benefits. One
merchant said al sold more goods in
my store Saturday night than at any time
since the saloons have been opened. :"
Another said that his trade in provisions
had doubled over the usual Saturday
nights business. A butcher said that
persons were buying meat that seldom
before had money TO spare for such pro-
visions. People generally noted the dit-
ference in the way that the money was
being spent, and unprejudiced persons
could not but acknowledge that there was
a vast Improvement over the usual state
of affairs. We submit 10 any fair-minded
man that it is better to have three hundred
dollars a week spent with the groceries,
the meat shops, the clothing and dry
goods stores and similar establishments
than to have it go into the saloons.
The following offer, and signed by a
dozen grocery firms OF Delaware, o., has
been scattered by the thousand: "Anyone
who drinks three glasses of whisky day
for one year and pays 10 cents drink for
il can have in exchange at any OF the
firms whose names appear on this card 3
barrels of flour, 20 bushels OF potatoes,
200 pounds OF granulated sugar, | barrel
of crackers, pound Of pepper, 2 pounds
of tea, 50 pounds OF salt, 20 pounds Of
rice, 80 pounds of butter, 10 pounds OF
cheese, Is pounds OF coffee, 10 pounds OF
candy, 3 dozen cans Of tomatoes, 10 doz-
en- pickles, 10 dozen oranges, 10 dozen
bananas, 2 dozen cans OF corn, Is boxes
of matches, hall bushel OF beans, 100
cakes of soap and package OF rolled
oats for the same money and get $3.50
premium for making the exchange in the
expenditures.
Beginning with last Thursday, eight ad-
ditional counties were added to the "dry"
column in West Virginia, making total
of AZ out of the 50 counties of the State
where liquor cannot be legally sold here
after. The counties added to the dry list
are Kanawha, Wyoming, Taylor Randolph
Mineral. Marion, Lewis and Greenbrer
About l42 saloons have been closed in
these counties, in Charleston alone 40
saloons and six breweres having shut up
shop. The loss of revenue will very
likely be largely offset by the reduction in
criminal expenses, and il is not believed
by well-informed persons that there will
be any serious embarrassment to either
State or municipal finances. There are
still 100 saloons in West Virginia.
Bells isshe churches and town-clock
SteepleS on tolling the midnight hour last
Wednesday night marked the passing OF
saloons in Tennessee, for at that hour the
Holiday Statewide prohibition law went
into effect. This law makes ii illegal to
sell alcoholic beverages within four miles
of any School-house in the State. Only
two cases are left in all Tennessee. Both
are within twelve miles of Memphis, near
the Mississippi State line. The nearest
school-houSe is six miles from both OF
these points, but steps have already been
taken by white ribbonerS to have the
county board of education erect school
house within the distance prescribed by
the Holiday bill, so that there will be no
saloons in the State at any point.
The saloons OF Grafton were closed last
Wednesday night, and many persons are
glad of it. The Grafton Republican says:
prohibition was tried here once before
and il worked no harm TO the town.
Since then, with high license and a sur
felt of saloons paying into the city treas
ury, the town has gone into debt to the
amount OF a sum estimated at thirty TO
forty-seven thousand dollars. The city
of Grafton-any ciy-can save money
without saloon license, providing such
city has council that will endeavor to
work to that end"
At Charleston, w. Va, on Tuesday,
DR.. Robert Cunningham was fined $500
by Judge MacCorkle for illegally giving
prescription for half pint of whiSkey.
There seems to be a determination to
enforce the laws in this State against
physicians and druggists who violate the
liquor and drug laws. Some OF the drug
giStS think that they can sell in the orig
inal package without prescription, but
this is strictly against the law.
The city of Fairmont, this State, will
be wet, instead of dry, the ensuing year.
Councilman Clarence Robinson, who was
elected as temperance man two years
ago, and who voted dry last year and the
first part of this year, Hoped to the whiS-
key side and voted for the saloons and
breweries. He went against a petition
Sigued by 400 of His 600 constituents, and
there is much indignation at his action.
Mrs. Lena Lemen has entered suit against
four ParkerSburg saloonkeeperS for 49,
600 each, charging them with selling in
toxicating liquors to her son, whom she
states is her only support. AS result OF
his drinking the mother states he lost his
position.
The Nebraska daylight saloon law went
into effect last Thursday. No drinking
place shall be open before "a. m or after
p. m. Governor Shallenberger says
that he means TO see that the law is en-
forced.
The city of Charleston, w. Va, has
really gone dry, for the council still re-
fuses to grant licenses to the liquor Sa-