Show NEW YEAR BRINGS LOCK FOR SALOONS IN ALABAMA D Ala Ala- Jan Jan- 1 With I.-With With uk shrill shrieks of or the hundreds of ot whistles of or Industrial Birmingham an- an n the tho advent of or tho the new year every ory saloon Baloon in tho the city closed Its Ils doors door die Ille Last night was the tho time set for tor prohibition to go SO Into effect in thc these counties of or Alabama In ht which local p- p p- p tin elections havo have been held durin thu There were exactly fifty counties ot of tho the State that closed tho the doors doms of th the permanently tonight This leaves seventeen counties In the tho Stale hi hi which liquor can be bo sold Gold for another year Ono One year from tonight tho thu entire State Into I b Incomes prohibition by statutory act Of or the wet vet counties for the tho next year yc-nr 11 only I fur are arc exclusively saloon counties counties- lo Mo Mo- bla bb Dallas and Baldwin There are arc twelve exclusive O dispensary I Macon aunties counties Macon Iaron Winston Elmoro Elmore J Madison Cleburne Perc Percy Harbour Colbert Covington and CoQ Coffee e. e arengo county has both dispensary and Jefferson count county In which Birmingham Bir Bir- mingham Is located Is b by fur ur the largest county in the tho State Slate and In Birmingham u one ne 1 0 saloons wont out o of business at midnight A remarkable feature of or the 1 da day under the liquor re regime Is the tho fact that thero was less legs lc s drunkenness rote rated noted than for tor many months At man many places today brandies s and c champagnes w were ro selling at price half and oven even cheaper Mall Many vans vana of ot liquors have havo been delivered delivered ered to private residences and stocks on onland onland onland land with tho the dealers arms arc small The number o of tho the beat hest saloon locations loca tOns in the tho heart of the city have been heen r rented but man many places which brIll bring JOO tt t O a month cannot bo rented for tor halt hall r that amount amount- 1 |