Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1909 — DRYS LOSE ALABAMA FIGHT [ARTICLE]

DRYS LOSE ALABAMA FIGHT

Issue Fails by 20,000—Women Serve Coffee and Food at Polls. Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 30.—The people of Alabama declined to amend the constitution so as to include prohibition therein, defeating the proposition by about 20,000 majority. Only six or seven of the sixty-seven counties of Alabama returned majorities in favor of the amendment, and th?se in each instance were small. There was intense interest in the election. Women worked around the polls in the cities, serving coffee and sandwiches. Police and deputies main tained order. The clear weather brought out a big vote throughout the state.