Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1909 — MORE WATER WAGON PASSENGERS [ARTICLE]

MORE WATER WAGON PASSENGERS

Whitley, Hancock and Shelby Hang Out the Dry Sign. The “jlry” counties in Indlapa under the epunty option law now number 31, Whitley, Hancock and Shelby counties having voted since our last issue and giving dry majorities of 1,150, 1,302, and 745, respectively. Thirteeen saloons are put out . business in Whitley, 12 in Hancock and 17 in Shelby, making a grand total of 466 saloons put out of business thus far by the county option vote. The following counties are to vote yet this month: Miami County, March 16; Greene County, March 23; Benton County, March 23; Montgomery County, March 23; Ohio County, March 24; Elkhart County, March 25; Jennings County, March 30; Bartholomew County, March 30; Vermillion County, March 30; Henry County, March 31.

Twenty-one counties and 1,800 saloons had been remonstrated out, making a total of 52 of the 92 counties in the state now dry and 2,266 bars closed. The counties voted dry are: Shelby, Whitley, Hancock, Marshall, Sullivan, Jay, Rush, Carroll, Gibson, Fayette, Fountain, Hendricks, Howard, Grant, Newton, Daviess, Adams, Randolph, , Noble, Hamilton, Tipton, Lawrence, Switzerland, Putnam, Decautr, Pike, Wabash, Huntington, Parke, Clinton, Morgan—Total, 31. Those remonstrated dry: Boone, Brown, Clay, Crawford, Dekalb, Fulton, Henry, Johnson, Kosciusko, Lagrange, Monroe, Orange, Owen, Pulaski, Scott, Steuben, Union, Warren, Wells, White, Washington—Total, '2l.