Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1917 — “ARID” CONDITION STATISTICS [ARTICLE]

“ARID” CONDITION STATISTICS

Three-fourths of the 2,997 counties in the United States are now j completely “dry” and more than , half the forty-eight states have voted 1 prohibition and are either now dry ■or soon will be. In nineteen of j these-‘States the prohibition law is j now in effect —Alabama, Arizona, j Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, I lowa, Kapsas, Maine, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, i Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington. Of the remaining states several have already passed prohibition to take effect later. In the ! present / “wet” states there are many counties that are now dry—- | California, 2 out of 5:8'; Delaware, 2 out of 3; Florida, 44 out of 52; Illinois, 52 out of 102; Indiana, 34 out of 91; Kentucky, 106 opt of 120; Louisiana, 35 out of 63; Maryland, 17 out of 23; Michigan, 45. out of 83; Minnesota, 45 out of 86; Missouri, 85 out of 114; Montana, 1 out of 41; Nebraska, 32 out of 93; New Hampshire, 3 oat 10; New Mexico, 1 out of 26, New York, 4 out of 62; Ohio. 1 I out of 88; Pennsylvania, 11 out of 67r South Dakota, 30 out of 68; Texas, 187 out of 252; Utah, 20 out of 28; Vermont, 7 out of ,14; Wisconsin, 2 out of 71, and Wyoming, 1 out of 21. Connecticut, Nevada, New Jersey and Rhode Island ffre entirely wet, while Massachusetts votes by municipalities.