Show BIRMINGHAM WENT DRY WITH SHRILL SHRIEKS Birmingham Ala AlII Dec 31 With tho shrill shrieks of ot the tho of ot whis whistle whistles tle of or Industrial ham announcing announcIng ing advent of or tho new year saloon In the city closed Its doors sine dlo Tonight ht was tho time sot seL for COI prohibition to go Into effect In those counties of Alabama In which local op option tion elections been held dining the year ar There were exactly CO riO coun counties ties of ot the state that closed the doom of or the th saloons permanently tonight This Thill leaves IT Ii counties In the tho tulo I in III which liquor cnn can be sold old for fol another year lar Ono One year ear from tonight the entire state becomes prohibition by statutory act Of the wet wel counties for the tho next year ear only four are aro exclusively saloon counties Mobile Montgomery on Dallas and Baldwin There aro 1110 12 1 exclusive dispensary counties Macon Winston I Elmore Limestone Madison Percy Harbour Barbour Colbert Colhert Cov CovIngton CO Ington and Coffee county has hR both dispensary and saloon Jeffer Jetter Jefferson son lion county In which Birmingham is located Is by b fur fill the largest county In the tho state and In Birmingham alone alono went out of or business at midnight A r 1 t feature of or ortho the tho last day la under the liquor regime h Is the tho tact fact that there was less drunken drunkenness ness noted than for tor many man months At many man places today brandies and champagnes were Selling belling at and even Ien cheaper Many llan vans of liquors have been heen de livered to private residences and stocks On hand with the tho dealers arc small The larger number of the th best locations in the heart henrt of at the city elty have been rented but many man places which bring to 12 a month cannot be rented for half that amount |