The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-08-15
Revenue Without Re-asSess-
ment Far Greater Than
in Wet Times
SPLENDID INCREASE
IN REALTY VALUES
Business People Line Up for
Temperance and "Drys
Expect to Win in
thursdays Fight

! Special to The Richmond Virsin!an.)
RADFORD, VA, Aug. 14,-Radford
viii have "A local option election on
Thursday, August II, following an &C
tive educational campaign by the
"Grys" and the customary so-calIed
gum shoe work of the vets The
"drys" confidently look TO victory.
Two years ago the "drys" carried the
town by a majority OF 1916. Last MO-
/ vember the total vote In Radford was
$50. The petition for local option
election was signed by 10 persons,
Two years ago, out of total OF 462
qualified voters. I64 petitioned for the
election and 5S3 voted.
Tho "drys' are hopeful that this
election Will give them a majority so
far in excess Of that of TWO years
ago that the question VIII never come
up again for consideration.
The present campaign has been
free Of personality or recrimination OF
any kind. Public meetings have been
addressed In each of the two wards
each week for five weeks and there
have been meetings weekly in the
F.. churches. For the first time In a
local option campaign the "drys' have
! trad the active support OF tire local
4 PapNht 4 lAI <N'if any, W MN tAiAo yfat
sounded the battle cry in its first is
sue after the call for the election. This
was followed by big rally addressed
] by Captain u II. Barger, Of Shaws-
VILE; Judge selden Longley of Rad
j ford, Rev, r. /. Raymond Episcopal
rector in Radford and Pulaski, and
others There has been no let~up in
/ the speaking and billing of the town
since.
~.
every possible tandpoint-moral and
economic. with their various subdi-
visions bearing on health and EN-
cheney.
The experience of Radford dry
as against Radford wet has been
the strong card Of the "drys" Like
that Of all other places, Radford's ex-
/ perience dry shows the most re
markable Improvement in all ways
over the old wet" days.
stock Wet Arguments.
+ The 'wets' were understood to hold
that the city was losing its old-time
revenue from saloon license, losing
/ business. going to the dogs. and TIN
ally that prohibition didn't prohibit
! Investigation showed that in 1906
wet" the city revenue from all
/ sources, except liquor, was 16,15936
while in 1910, dry" from the same,
sources, it was S2S,600.91. The in
crease in four years. all under the
same assessment was $I2.441.55. The
revenue from the saloons in 1905
was $6,750, So that the increase on
other items in dry time covered and
then overlapped the saloon revenue
/ by $5,69l.55. The increase was found
uniformly in all departments
sonalty, real estate improvements
/ mercantile licenses and corporation
land bank payments.
Merchants. bankers and builders
all reported better business and bet
/ ter collections. Builders kept more
+ men and teams busy. The banks
showed accounts carried by people
who formerly We're always borrowers
and had difficulty meeting notes Real
estate men say that the rent list
/ has almost disappeared before ac-
CURED ownership of homes by people
/ Of moderate means. Here are some
figures from the First National Bank:
Savings department: August /.
| l901.-Deposits, 5000; same date
this year, s108,000.
! school teachers report better con-
! dition in health and clothing of chill
! dren. Sunday school superintendents
report larger attendance because chill
drea, ho lacked e!aShes before, now
/ have them.
Some vets" who complained of
having to pay more taxes. it was
found had Increased hteir holdings of
real estate, showing they thought
kadford land IN dry" times good
I investment. 1t was found that one
man who complained that he couldn't
sell his property was holding II at
! twice the value he bought it for in
wet times and had enjoyed the
use of it in the meantime.
An effective card prepared by a
real estate man, Mr. George A. Sui
Ivan, from the record brought out
some increases In values between wet
and dry days. In the local publica-
ton names of sellers and purchasers
We're given With years. Here II Is
sufficient To give the figures in parallel
columns; hgures representing what
the same property sold for under
wet" and dry" regimes:
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