The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-02-20
DELEGATION GOING
TO ANNAPOLIS.
DELEGATE HERBERT R. .WOODEN'S LOCAL
OPTION BILL TO HAVE HEARING
ON TUESDAY.

Mr. George Mather, chairman OF the
committee of arrangements working
for local option for Carroll county,
has sent out a number of letters to
citizens in the county, reminding
them that next Tuesday at 1880 a. m,
is the time OF the hearing at Annapo-
lis before the Temperance Committee
and the Carroll county Representa-
tives, for the delegation in the inter-
ests of the Local Option Bill, present
ed i'm the House last Thursday by
Delegate Herbert R. Wooden.
All those who are interested in the
University Extension Course Of lee
lures, which have proved 50 entertain
ing and instructive this winter, and
who desire to have the lectures con
tinued next year, are requested to
meet in the lobby of the Times Build
ing on Friday, February ~, at 7.3O
ID. m.
! A special train, known as the Car
roll County Local Option Special has
been engaged and will leave Camden
Station, Baltimore, over the B. & o.
Annapolis Short Line at 9.15, Tuesday
morning, returning leave Annapolis
In the afternoon in time for all to
reach their homes the same day.
Persons along the main line of
Western Maryland take train leaving
Union Bridge 6.48 a. M, New Windsor
6.58, Westminster, 7.19, Carrollton,
7.31, Asbestos 7.44 and get Off at Wal
brook. Buy your ticket to Walbrook,
not Baltimore, it's cheaper. Take
trolley on North Avenue going east
and transfer at John street, to John
e-%r II iah will fal
To Camden Station. Those on Balti-
more e Hanover Division take train
leaving Hampstead 6.44 a. m. Those
ing Mt Airy about ZOO a. m, and
timore 8.45. On reaching Camden
CATION and be sure to get on their
special. Badges will BE- provided for
members OF the party which IL in
structed to keep together and march
\ to State House In a body.
N Some OF the more important proy1s-
ions of the bill as introduced by Dele
gaL=. Wooden are as follows:
" Votes to be taken at regular cleo
tions upon petition of one-fourth OF
the vote cast at the last election
" laws 20 into effect the following May;
Vote cannot be taken oftener than ev.
cry two years; Provides for the same
method Of voting the county wet as
for voting it dry; The county Is the
unit on which the vote must be taken
the whole county going either wet OF
dry; Penalties for first violations and
increasing for subsequent violations;
Giving away, delivery. or handling by
any store keeper or at any place OF
business, or taking or soliciting oi
orders, shall be unlawful selling, and
such places shall be abated as nui-
sances; Physicians must prescribe in
writing and only when required as @
medicine, and druggists can sell only
under strict conditions and a record
must be kept
The Anti-Shipping clause prevents
the shipment Of liquor in any way
except it may be carried by individ-
uals upon their person, or al their
personal baggage and for their pri-
vate use in quantity not to exceed one
gallon, or delivered to druggists in
unbroken packages and not more than
five gallon lots; or delivered to
churches in unbroken packages for
sacramental purposes; or delivered
at residences, not places of business,
or public resorts by manufacturers or
wholesalers by their own conveyances
in unbroken packages of liquor, the
contract for the sale of which was
made outside the county; or shipped
through the county to point outside
the county