Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1917 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

News Items From All Over Indiana. TOWN VOTES DRY AND WET Wheatfield Women Thought They Had Downed “Demen Rum” Until Notified They Had No Right to Vote on the Question, y Wheatfield. June I—Wheatfield was voted wet and dry. Figures showed that the men of the town gave liquor a majority of 29, while if rhe votes of the women were counted the drys had won by 52. Because women misconstrued a telegram from Governor Goodrich and thought the woman .suffrage law had Income effective, they cast ballots in the wet and dry . election separate from the meh. ' Today they learned- their victory v.as an empty • ne. as the laws of the 1917 legislature had not yet been promulgated by rhe g-«vemor. Eighty-six men voted against liquor and 113 votqd f..r Uqnpr, while 22 wom<n v<:—l f.-r liquet and 105 voted-against I 'it, .