The following resolution adopted by the Board of Town Commissioners of Wilkesboro shows that he officials there are on the job as regards regulation of the liquor traffic:
Be it resolved by the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Wilkesboro, in meeting assembled on Monday night, December 3, 1923, that whereas intoxicating liquors are being sold around the town of Wilkesboro, and boys from the ages of 10 and older have been under the influence of liquor by reason thereof, That the mayor of this town required every person found in the corporate limits under the influence of intoxicating liquors or in the possession of any quantity thereof, to make such disclosure of where he procured said liquor that a conviction be had of the retailer, and upon the failure of any party to do so, the said mayor is directed to commit said party to the common jail of Wilkes County until he does furnish such proof.
The said mayor is further directed to freely use the common jail of Wilkes County in breaking up the liquor traffic and the use thereof. The purpose of this board is to stop drunkenness in this town and the sale of liquor to any of its inhabitants or to persons coming in to said town.
All members of said board voting “aye” upon said resolution, it is declared carried by the major.
--Charles G. Gilreath, Mayor
--L.B. Dula, Secy.
From the front page of the Watauga Democrat, Boone, N.C., Thursday, Dec. 13, 1923
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