A Temperance Settlement.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1651, 6 March 1886, Page 4

A Temperance Settlement.

The 'town of Whittier," which is being- 1 built five miles .east of Charleston, on the Western itfofth' 'Carolina railroad, isat^- ' ; tracting no little attention. : Dr»- Clarke WMttierj of Calitornia, the founder, has recently, purchased' 60,000 acr6s ? of hnd inSyr^n and' Jackson .cbuntieSj andhehas.options on about 30,000. acres more. This lfcnd he;prpt)oses t to\cut up irfta.small, farms.: In "order to doHhis successfully; ' the building of; a; live town ; somewhere near the centre of this land was an abso lute .necessity— hence the starting : of "Whittier. The main part of the town will be on what is known as the §tallcup ; farm. A long bench rising 20ft or 30ft above the road bed affords ample loom for a \ large- town. About eight r new stores,: besides other buildings, are to go :iip at 6nce,. The unique features^ of the town ire the' provisions made against the sale of liquor. Arrangements havebeen madeto^pjreye.nt the manufacture and- , t sale of .spirituous and iflalf 'liquor's, not' only m the town, but vyithin ten miles of it m eyery direction. ;There is a clause m every deed to land sold which provides that if; at any time spiriftious or malt liqtiors shall be manufactured, sold, or given away on land,, the said land reverts . baclctp Dr Whittier oY his heirs,' upon the payment ot the original purchase money. This applies both, to yiliagellots m Whittier and to' the "60,000 acres purchase: 1 The people m ,the^ yicinity of Whittier join heartily 'in 1 With the doctor's plans. •■•'■'. -.i