Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1916 — 85 Illinois Townships Raise Liquor Question. [ARTICLE]

85 Illinois Townships Raise Liq uor Question.

( hicago, Feb. 7.—Petitions were filed today in eighty-five Illinois townships for the submission of the liquor question at the spring election. Among the larger places where the prohibition question is to be presented are East St. Louis, Rock Island, Moline, Alton and Aurora. In these citieg the petitions were filed by the anti-saloon forces. The liquor interests hgve raised the question in several places now dry, among them being Elgin and Freeport. Fifty-three of the 102 counties of Jllinois now are anti-saloon territory.