Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1909 — MORE COUNTIES VOTE "DRY.” [ARTICLE]

MORE COUNTIES VOTE "DRY.”

Deleware, Kosciusko and Starke Get On the Water Wagon. Several county option elections have been held In Indiana this week, Deleware voting Tuesday, Kosciusko and Starke Thursday, and Jefferson Washington, Martin and Tippecanoe yesterday. Our own county votes to-day. The result in Deleware was a

general surprise all around. The wets expected to carry it by a few hundred, and the drys by about 1,000. Muncie is a city of about 32,000, and has 82 saloons. It was expected a wet majority would be secured there sufficient, the wets thought, to overcome any dry majority that might be secured in the |out townships. Instead, Muncie gave a dry majority of 209, and the county 2,956. This is the first real test in a county having a city of considerable size, and is a sore dissappolntment to the wets. In Thursday’s elections both Kosciusko and Starke went dry, but the telephone wires being down badly no figures are given. Kosciusko has no saloons, and it is thought the majority for the drys there will reach 1,500. Starke has 16 saloons, but the drys believe they will have a majority of 400 to 500. In yesterday’s elections Tippecanoe was the real battle ground, and the result there is in doubt, with the chances rather in favor of the drys. The Democrat going to press Friday afternoon is unable to give the results there until Wednesday’s issue. are 102 saloons in | Lafayette.