Volume 15 , Issue 7

Four Quarts of Whiskey - 1911

Four Quarts of Whiskey, Five Gallons of Beer, only Permitted in Private Homes. It was 2 March 1911, in Alva, Woods county, Oklahoma, when the Alva Review Courier reported in 1911 a new prohibition bill, containing but three sections, embodying only the most essential features of a law introduced in the Senate by Senator J. H. Langston, of Guymon, in 1911.

The first section makes it unlawful for any person, association, club society, co-partnership or of company to manufacture, sell, barter, give away, or otherwise furnish or dispose of any intoxicating liquor of any kind, including ale, beer, wine or any mixed drink, beverage or connection of an intoxicating character.

It was punishable by fine of $50 to $500 and imprisonment of 30 days to six months, together with disfranchisement for five years and disqualification for holding office.

An exemption of the sort which caused so much of a fight on the pending prohibition bill was contained in the third section, which provides that the provisions of the act shall not apply to the head of a family, who may keep not to exceed four quarts of whiskey or wine or five gallons of beer in his home for the use of the family for medical purposes.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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