Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. §HORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. MICHIGAN IS SIXTEENEH STATE Legislature , Ratifies Amendment Providing for a “Dry” Nation. Lansing, January 6—The Mlchgan legislature has ratified the amendment to the Constitution providing for a “dry” nation. Both houses adopted the resolution without debate and the only opposition came in the house where three votes were cast against the proposal. Michigan is the sixteenth fltate to ratify the proposed prohibition amendment to the federal Constitution. Twenty more states must take a similar action to adopt the amendment as proposed by the congress. Thq first four states to act favorably were in the south and nearly half of the sixteen adopting states are south of the Ohio river. Only five states west of the Mlssissipl river have taken action, while Michigan makes the fourth state north of the Ohio and east bf the Mississippi to ratify. Those states which have ratified since Virginia first acted on January 13, 1918, are: Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Dakota, Maryland, Montana, Arizona, Deleware, Texas, South Dakota, Massaohusets, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida and Michigan.