Freestone County, Texas
History & News of 1909


Napa Weekly Journal, 29 October 1909, Page 3

ONE WAY T0 KEEP A TOWN “DRY”

AUSTIN, Texas. Oct. 23 — A way to enforce prohibition was made possible under the 
Fitzhugh-Robinson liquor law limiting the number of saloons in each precinct to 
one for every 500 inhabitants. The town of Fairfield, in Freestone county, went 
wet a few weeks ago and almost immediately applications for permits were filed 
with the comptroller for the maximum number of saloons allowed. The Comptroller 
approved the applications. Subsequently there were other applications, all of 
which were outside the limit of the law. No saloons have been opened. The 
applications were taken out by prohibitionists, who resorted to that method to 
keep the town dry.