Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-04-23 | Page 3 | Three Grocers Are Fined

THREE ARE FID FI ED First Prosecutions Prose in Ogden for Vio Via Violation Violation lation of the State Pure lure I Food Law j I Three Ogden grocers F R Watkins J R B Condon and G A Nichols were found guilty of a misdemeanor and fined IS 35 Ii and costs each by Judge John D Mur Murphy Murphy phy ph in municipal court yesterday for vio violation violation lation of the new food law The offense consisted of selling lIIng butter not properly stamped with the name of the I maker and the number of ounces in the package These were the first prosecutions prosecutions prosecutions under the law enacted by the recent legislature lCJ and this accounts for the light punishment It is the announced policy of o the local authorities to enforce the pure food laws to the letter The prosecutions were on complaints sworn to by Willard Villard Hanson HansOR state food and dairy commis commissioner abner