Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-08
Seven of Larger Wet Cit
les Are Joined to Dry
Territory.
16 OF COUNTIES ADDED
Freeport Changes After so
YearS-7O Per Cent GentIer
Sex Against Saloons.

Chicago. IL. April S.-Women vot-
ing for the srst time IN Illinois town
ship elections demonstrated their
power yesterday by closing more than
. thousand saloons. adding 16 counties
10 the 80 already dry. and barring the
sale OF intoNicants in approximately
two hundred of the three hundred
townships il which local option was
II issue
Their victory included II of the
larger cities Of the state, which were
Wet territory They were Blooming
ton. GalesbUrg, ElgiR, Decatur, Can
ton, FreepOrt, Belvidere. Monmouth,
Kevanee. LockpOrt and East Galena-
Joliet voted wet by a majority ap-
proximately of twenty-five hundred.
Late night returns were that the city
had gone dry. No city nor township
which vas dry before election was lost
by the anti-saIoon forces. but cities
Ike Springfield. Quincy, Rock Island.
Aurora, Alton. Moline, Dixon and West
Galena, remained wet
Rockford Remains Dry.
Rockford. Mattoon and Galva were
kept in the dry column by women's
votes. Springfield was one of the few
places in which a majority OF the
EOmen's votes were cast in favor of
the saloons.
Incomplete returns from 81 town
ships give 4O,6S1 dry votes. and 1S,1s1
vet votes. showing approximately
seventy per cent OF the women voters
favored the anti-saloon ticket Where
accurate figures are available, the
mems vote was shown TO be about one
eighth greater than the women's. and
divided approximately sixty per cent
vet and forty per cent dry
Thirty new women officials were
elected, % township collectors. three
town clerks and one woman member
Of city board Of education, Mrs.
Mary Morrison OF Springfield.
One Wet Town in Whiteside.
Sixteen counties added to the list
Of 90 already dry are: Boone, Brown. /
Christian. DekaIb. Dewitt, Fulton.
Henry. Jersey. Knox. Livingston. Ma
con. Morgan. Shelby. Stephenson. War
zen. Winnebago. OF near-dry counties. Z
resulting from the election. 10 Daviess
and Whiteside have each one vet city. T.
West Galena and Fulton, respectively. /
and Kane county has two wet places. .
Aurora. St Char.es. Dund, Rutland
and Burlington. Nearly ten thousand
women voted in Joliet Their ballots .
were nearly equally divided between f.
vets and drys.
Freeport, for 80 years wet, saw its /
IS saloons wiped out by the votes OF 1
women.
The township Of Proviso. outside OF 4
Chicago. voted wet. There were II /
saloons and a large amusement park .
IN the township.
Close al Bloomington.
Bloomington. Ill. April S.-Accord-
ing 10 a newspaper, Bloomington voted
dry by the slender majority Of 10. If
The official canvass shows a dry vic
tory the vets intimate they Will ask a
recount
Wet Issue in Nebraska.
Omaha. Neb.. April s.-LOcal option
elections IN Nebraska yesterday re-
suited I'm i changes from wet to dry,
and nine changes from dry TO wet. in
40 towns reporting. Fifteen towns
voted in favor OF and five against Sun
day baseball.
ST. Peter, Mimi, Dry.
81. Paul. MINI. April S.-Adyocates
Of temperance are eIated over victor
les and large majority in Minnesota
cities Of the fourth class which held
municipal elections yesterday, with
liquor license the principal issue The
most notable victory OF the anti-saloon
forces vas in southern and southwest
ern Minnesota. Among the towns that
vent dry 81. Peter was the most
notable. saloons having operated there
continuously for so years.
Bloomington. Ill. April s.-Miss Lou
ise Kllbury was elected collector in