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Mixed drinks flowing in Kiowa County

By Staff Reports
Published: 8/22/2009 9:19 PM
Last Modified: 8/22/2009 9:19 PM

HOBART (AP) — For the first time in the history of Kiowa County, residents can saddle up to the bar and order a mixed drink.

The Longbranch Saloon in Hobart last week became the first establishment in the county to take advantage of a liquor-by-the-drink proposal approved by county voters last year. Fifty-four percent of voters approved the proposal in November’s general election.

Officials with the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission say the county is the 49th of 77 Oklahoma counties to approve liquor by the drink.

The 28 other so-called “dry” counties can sell low-point beer or have a license for a “bottle club,” where members can bring their own bottles of alcohol under certain guidelines.

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	Report Comment douglassm, tulsa (8/22/2009 9:39:38 PM) This is just the devil's work. Another Sodom in the making. (sarcasm)
	Report Comment 1984, (8/23/2009 12:05:35 AM) douglassm people want to legislate their own morality because they are weak and are scared they wont be able to abstain the temptation. People will always do what they want. We all profit if we legalize what the do.
	Report Comment Thunder196, Tulsa (8/23/2009 5:18:15 AM) I chuckle when I hear someone say low-point beer. Like it can't get you drunk.
	Report Comment Oldfatdude, Whoville (8/23/2009 7:26:20 AM) low-point beer = more "pointing" at the urinal.
	Report Comment Four Sixteen Rigby, (8/23/2009 9:09:13 AM) You mean "legally" go up to the bar and order a drink. Some of us are old enough to remember when all of Oklahoma was "dry," we had "liquor by the wink," and Oklahomans would continue to vote "dry" for as long as they could stagger up to the polls. Oh, and its "sidle" up to the bar. Not "saddle." Clearly, the author knows not enough about bars.
	Report Comment billy8, Sand Springs (8/23/2009 9:42:07 AM) If it's taken this long for Oklahoma to enter into the rest of the world about alchohol, imagine how long it will take if Marijuana is legalized. We'll still have pot smuglers in Ok for years to come.
	Report Comment redbeard, Stillwater (8/23/2009 9:53:38 AM) If people want to drink,they'll find some way to do it,dry county or not.

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