The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1917-06-30
'BARLEYC0RN
GASPS LAST
ON JULY 1Sr
FLOWERS AND SLOW MELODY
AS KING BOOZE WENDS
WAY TO TOMB.
Half Million Dollars Worth of LIQUOR
Is Rushed into North Dakota as
Fatal Day Approaches.

DOOZe, declares DICKINSON man
who returned from the Dunn
county town Thursday. He as
serts that the railway station is
jammed to the roof with packages
of damp goods, and that it is
necessary TO leave shipments in
cars at night for lack of stor-
age room. He states that guards
patrol the vicinity of the precious
cargoes, that no thirsty soul may
make way with the liquid JOY dur
ing the night.
John Barlcycorn is busy getting in
his last licks throughout North Da-
kota this week and with the passing
of the midnight hour Saturday the
Flickcrtail state will be as bone-dry
as it is possible to make it. At
least this is word received from fed
eral officials, who should know. All
about the state the thirsty ones are
preparing for a long drouth, and lucky
indeed is he who has had foresight
to cram the old cellar to the roof
with Scotch, Irish, Dutch and Scandi-
navian disturbance, for the Saharades-
ert will resemble a flooded area after
July l., compared with North Dakota.
An interview with prominent Of
fetal brings the declaration that the
statute with regard to King Alcohol
will be rigidly enforced. According to
this authority, no booze may be
brought within the state in any man
ner. Should local resident go TO
Glendive, Wibaux, Minneapolis, or any
other place where the cup that cheers,
queers and blears is sold, he will be
liable to arrest if ~he so much as
brings back one pint Of beer on his
justly celebrated hip. Not a drop in
our fair state is the edict.
About the only man who will be
permitted to get booze in the state
will be a registered pharmacist, and
in the sale by him it must be for
medical purposes, with a record kept
of the sale which will be open for in
spection. Snake bites, a racking
cough and the other standard all
ments will be scofed at. Alcohol, it
is said, may be received for compound
ing medicine and bathing purposes,
but the ordinary rank and file Of al
cohol users gain no joy from the
bathing provision of this act, at least
external bathing.
F. L. Watkins, superintendent of the
North Dakota Enforcement league,
calls on all officials to seize all
liquors that may be found in depots
and transportation offices after July
1. There are some who contend, how
ever, that booze shipped into the
state, and remaining uncalled for July
1, must be returned to the sender.
Nothing After 6?
1t is unofficially announced that the
local express office will be closed at
o'clock Saturday evening, and that
no shipments of liquor may be taken
therefrom after that hour, all moist
goods uncalled for at that time to
be returned to consignors. Nothing
definite is known at this time as to
what course Of procedure will be,
however. Express offices in other
cities in the state will remain open
to later hour Saturday night, it is
said. Fargo will give consignees un-
til 9 o'clock to take out shipments,
and it is stated that other offices
may remain open until midnight.
Dispatches from St. Paul bring in
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