Smyrna times., 1917-11-14
WHEN DOES COUNTY GO
DRY? IS DEL, QUERY
LEGAL QUESTION MAY BE MADE
BASIS OF ATTACK ON NEW LAW

Election Closes 25 Bars in Rural New
Castle County Wilmington Can Get
Booze Only by Train or Boat
With rural New Castle county |
dry by majority of 928 as a re-
suit of the special license election.
the question has arisen as to whether
or not prohibition becomes effective |
Immediately after the superior court |
officially canvassej the vote or whether |
the saloon and hoteImen will have un-
til July 1, 1918, to close out their !
business, as specified in the law under
which the election was held. Licensed
saloons and hotels were open and do
ing business the next day after cleo
tion. The constitutional section set
ting forth the procedure for manda-
tory submission of the license question
to the voters provides that no license
shall become effective Immediately
after such result is ascertained by the
court and is proclaimed by the gov
ernOr. and the question is raised
whether this provision of the consti
tuition shall supersede the date of July
1, 1918, set forth in the law as the
date for no license to become effective
in any district so voting. 1t is ex-
pected that this legal point will be
used as basis for license holders in
the rural county making q test of the
law in an effort to upset the election.
Twenty-Five hotels ano saloons in the
new "dry' territory will be put out
of business so far as the sale of intox-
icants is concerned. In New Castle
Jefferson House, John Fehl, pro-
prietor; The Star Hotel. Andrew M.
Gallagher. proprietor; Gilpin House,
John Truitt, proprietor; Market
Street Hotel, Mary M. Cannon, pro-
prietor; United States Hotel, James
B. Toman. proprietor; John Leonard
Dobbinville, bother, and Edward
Leonard. wholesale dealer. Augustine
Park-Algustine Beach Land Co.
Newark G. Willis, Wash
ington House; James A. McKelVey,
Deer Park Hotel; Thomas R. Claring-
bold, wholesaler.
Delaware City-Frederick Bender,
Benjamin W. Dunlap, James A. Multi
gan, Joseph S. Graham.
Middletown-Charles De Vallinger,
George H. johnson.
Newport james A. Manlove.
Stanton-Lewis Dickey.
Christiana H undred = W ebster
Blakely. Patrick Dougherty, Susan
A. Lawless.
Christiana-AlvaB B. Currinder.
Michael j. Walsh.
Port Penn-Robert L. Chadwick.
Odessa-Cyrus P. Gears.
The vote in the county, coupled
with the Loose liquor anti-shipping
law, will make it unlawful for liquol
to be shipped from Wilmington into
any part of the rural county, and any
one who carries more than one quart
of liquor or more than eight bottles
of beer into the county will be subject
both Any one in the county founC
with more than this amount in hi
possession at one time is liable to sim
liar punishment. Should any one h'
detected carrying liquor into th'
county by automobile in excess of tn
quantities stated their machine ma
be confiscated
AS Wilmington, the remaining
"wet" subdivision of the state,
now surrounded by "dry" territory
except on the river front, the onl
way liquor i'll quantities can be shippe
into the city hereafter is by train di
rect from outside the state in rh
course of interstate commerce or
ferry from Pennsgrove. N. j., or boa
from Philadelphia or Chester 1t car
not legally be brought by automobil
from Pennsylvania or Maryland.