The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-03-08
FEWER LICENSE TOWNS
Only I6 in the Entire State Reported
Up TO Midnight Tuesday. Twenty
two Last Year.

Up TO Midnight Tuesday. Twenty
two Last Year.
Tho following towns voted wet
Barre, Bennington. Burlington. Can
aan. Cas,lcton, Colchester, Fair Hav
en-, Jay. Newark, Rutland City. st. AL
bans City, Shelburne, Shorcham, Som
crset. vcrgennes, West Rutland
At midnight Tuesday She indica
tons were that the number Of towns
voting Tuesday 10 license the sale ol
intoxicating liquor would not be larg-
or and would probably be smaller thar
was the case last year, although ],
WAS held by some that the big storm
of Monday, followed by a wind that
made many country roads almost i'm
paSsable, might have a tendency to
keep at home many Of the voters who
live some distance from the polling
places, and indirectly swell the vote
for license because the sentiment for
license is sometimes stronger in the
villages than il is in the country dis
tricts.
Sixteen towns are known TO have
voted for license, as compared with %
last year, although no licenses were
granted in five of the % last year. OF
the cities, Burlington, Rutland, Barre,
St. Adams, and Vergennes will be wet,
as they were last year; Bennington,
Canaan, Castleton, Colchester, Fair
Haven, Jay, Shelburne, Shoreham,
Somerset, and West Rutland again
voted for license, although no license
was granted in Jay or Somerset last
year; Middlesex, which in past years
has gained some notoriety because of
the location of its one licensed place,
goes dry by II majority; other towns
changing from wet to dry are Pownal,
Swanton, Mount Tabor, and Sears
burg, although in the last 2 towns no
license was granted last year. Gale
donia county is no longer oily white"
the town of Newark with popula-
ton of Ais, voting Ia to 8 for license.
The vote in that town last year was
yes 8, no As,
In Addison county the vote in Shore
ham was yes SO, no 90; in Vergennes
is was yes 1856, no 1863.
Bennington is the only wet town in
Bennington county, the vote being yes
$50, no $50.
In Chittenden county Burlington in
crcases by so the majority for license,
the figures being yes $50, no 1,179,
while last year they were yes 1,766, no
laps; Colchester's vote is yes 1858, no
20S; Shelburne's vote is yes l42, no SO.
In Franklin county st. Adams re
mains in the license column by vote
of 536 to 452; Swanton, which went
wet last year, switches to dry, the vote
being yes 1899, no $50.
In Orleans county Jay again votes
for license, % TO Is.
In Rutland county, Rutland city re-
mains in the wet column by a majority
of 597, decrease from last year
when when it was 726. Castleton
Fair Haven and West Rutland also
voted for license, the majorities being
63, 145 and 40, respectively.
In Washington county Barre votes
for license by a majority Of 1877, as
compared with majority Of 103 for
license last year Montpelier says
"no" by as majority, as compared with
SO "no" majority last year.
Somerset, with total population Of
27, is the only town in Windham
county voting license. The exact ma
jority has been lost in transmission,
but it cannot be large, judging from
last years vote, which was "yes" 3,
"no" /.
Lamoile, Orange and Windsor coun ;
ties are lilly white, and no returns to
the contrary have been received from {
Grand Isle County.
In Essex county the town of Ca {
naan went wet. {