Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-04-16
Notice Of Local Option Election.

Notice of a Special Election, to be held
under the provisions of article 3, Of
Chapter So, of the REVISED Statutes
of Missouri, 1909, commonly kRopn
as the Local Option LdU, to determ-
inc lphether or not spirituous and
Intoxicating liquors, including wiRe
and beer, shall be sold, furnished, or
giUen array, Uithin the limits of
Iron County, in the State Of Mis-
souri,.
Be it remembered that on the 9th
day of April, 1914, the same being the
eleventh day of the February Term
of the County Court of said Iron
County, Missouri, among other pro-
ceedings, a petition was filed and re-
ceived by said Court, signed by Mann
Rlngo ct al, praying for a special
election to be held in said County, to
determine whether or not spirituous
and Intoxicating liquors, including
wine and beer, should be sold, furnish
ed or given away, within the limits of
said County; and on the said 9th day
of April, 1914, at said term of said
Court the following among other pro-
ceedings were had and entered of rec
ord, to wit:
Now come Mann Ringo ct al. and
present their. petition to the Court,
praying for a special election to be
held in Iron County, Missouri, as pro-
vided in Article 3, Chapter So, of the
Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1909,
commonly known as the Local Option
Law, to determine whether or not
spirituous and intoxicating liquors, in
Guiding wine and beer, shall be sold,
furnished, or given away, within the
limits of said County, and the Court
having seen and heard such petition,
and having examined the poll books
of the last previous general election
held in said County, and having COM
pared the names On said poll books
with the names on said petition, doth
find that said petition is signed by
more than one-tenth of the qualified
voters of said County which r and
were qualified to vote for members of
the legislature therein, at the last pre-
vious general election held therein,
and that there is not any city or town
in said County, at this time, having a
population of twenty-five hundredin-
habitants or more.
1t is, therefore, ordered by the Court
that a special election be held in said
County at the usual voting precincts
therein at which general elections for
state officers are held, on the
10th dag of Mag, 1914,
said date being within forty days from
the date on which said petition was
presented to this Court, to determine
whether or not spirituous and intoxi-
eating liquors, including wine and
beer, shall be sold, furnished, or given
away within the limits of said County,
and all persons voting at said election
who are against the sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors shall have written or print
ed on their ballots, AGAINST THE
SALE OF INTOXICATING IL
QUORS," and all those who are in ia
vor of the sale of such Intoxicating
liquors shall have written or printed
on their ballots, sFOR THE SALE OF
INTOXICATING LIQUORS."
1t is further ordered that said cleo
ton shall be conducted, the returns
thereof made, and ohe result therebf
ascertained and determined, accord
ing, in all respects, with the laws of
this State, governing general elections
for county officers, and the result
thereof shall be entered upon the rec
ords of this Court, and the expenses of
said election shall be paid out of the
County Treasury, as in the case of the
election of county officers.
1t is further ordered that the Clerk
of this Court shall cause notice of said
election to be published in the IRON
COUNTY REGISTER, a weekly newspa-
per published in said County, and that
said notice shall be published in said
newspaperfor four consecutive weeks
the last insertion shall be within ten
days next before the day of said cleo
ton.
A true copy of the record;
Attest, with seal, this 18th
(sEAL) day of April, 1914.
JOS. A. REYBURN,
Clerk of County Court Iron County,
Missouri.