The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-01-05
To the Number Of Eight
Million Souls.
STRINGENT LAWS EFFECTIVE
With Coming OF the New
Year-Seven States
Going Dry.
NO BRANDY FOR MNCE PIES

Statewide prohibition becomes eff
fective in seven States with the COM
ing of the new year. They are Colo
RADIO, Iowa, Washing IN, Oregon,
Idaho, Arkansas and .2uth Carroll
ma. When Virginia clio 81 its saloons
q November /. 1916, nineteen
states will have joined the dry col
umn.
Nebraska, Californ.l, Michigan.
South Dakota, Vermont and the Ter
ritory of Alaska will vote on prohi-
bition next year and several other
States are expected TO ballot on the
question.
The seven States v'nch board the
water cart add a p-~Ilation Of s.
254,O43 to the dry r-uks, according
to the 1910 census.
Colorado's turning 10 the drys is
the greatest blow of f e year to the
aloons. Sixteen h;1dred dram
shops and eleven breUeries are put
out of business in TIT State. Lii
quor can be obtained only four
ounces at time on non-refillable
prescription of a phy7ician and Ii
quor advertisements lay not appear
in Colorado newspapers after New
Years.
The remaining 4S3 saloons and
sixteen hreweries in Iowa close be-
cause of the repeal of the mulct law
by the Legislature year ago. The
breweries which go out of business
are capitalized at $4.236,963.
In Arkansas 1876 saloons go out Of
business under the most stringent
prohibition law in the United States.
Under the local option elections all
except six of the seventy-five counties
have been dry for some months. The
new law provides one year In the
penitentiary for violations and clubs
are prohibited from serving drinks
to members.
Idaho's 200 saloons close under
the drum tight" prohibition law.
An attack on the law is now before
the United States Supreme Court on
appeal.
All Aboard!
Seattle, WASH, Dec. 30.-Three
million new passengers for the water
wagon!
On January 1, the dry wave over
once sloppy and liberal West.
adds the people of Washington, Or
egon, Idaho and Colorado to the pro-
hibition roster.
Court decisions have sustained
the popular anti-booze verdict. For
ty-five breweries and 2,19O saloons
are put out of business, and more
than 100000 capital invested
in the liquor industry goes into a
state of suspended animation.
"Blind pigs" will have tough
roofing.
The new law. practically the same
in all four States, permits an indi-
vidual to buy not more than two
quarts of beer every twenty days.
This must be shipped in. since man.
ufacture as we'll as retail of liquor is
prohibited. These purchases must be
registered with designated authori-
ties.
The most interesting test for the
rest of the country to watch will be
the effect of prohibition in Seattle,
heretofore a decidedly wet seaport.
and the largest city in the United
States to go dry.
Seattle has four breweries and
315 saloons. These paid a $1,000
annual license each.
The Seattle Brewing and Mailing
Company, sixth largest in the United
States, has erected new establish
ment in San Francisco. Its $1,000
Geo plant here will remain idle.
In Idaho the situation is less
acute, since the drys have been win
ming important local victories there
1 for years. Four of the largest brew
cries had quit even before the State
went dry