| Show MAKE WAR ON SALOONS Davis County Citizens Are Earnest Fight Against Drink Dispensaries May 25 The Tile fight for fewer saloons and better regulation for tor those that continue in the time business is on in earnest in Davis county and there is every reason to think that th t some saloons will discontinue within the tile next few tew months On the part of the workers the fight is taking a double form torm First an Rn effort is making l to have uniform high licenses throughout the county count To fur further further ther this project a meeting of county and municipal officers was held in Farming Farmington ton as a result of which the county com commissioners commissioners missioners advanced the license in the county from to 1200 per annum The new ordinance making snaking this change will go into effect today toda There are but two saloons in tIme the county outside of the cities of Kaysville Farmington find Bountiful Both of these are at Layton Lat n and reports from there are to the effect that neither will continue business after atter the expiration expiration expiration tion of the licenses under which they are arenow arenow arenow now operating They consider that per annum is prohibitive Farmington City has the Lagoon within its Us boundaries and has been collecting at atthe atthe atthe the rate of 1200 a year from the time the Lagoon bar has been open for or bust bush business bustness bushness ness each year This will wili be doubled this year ear according to Mayor Clark who is taking active interest In the time movement so that the Lagoon will pay plO a month this year ear for 01 the privilege of dispensing intoxicants County Probation Officer Warren arren Rose was one of the speakers at the meeting of county and city officers above referred to and he alleged that there had not In Inthe n the past JUst been sufficiently strict regula regulations regulations at the Lagoon in the matter of selling soiling liquor on Sunday and selling to minors This matter will receive atten attention attention tion this year ear and it is expected that the resort resart will have a probation officer on the tile grounds for the purpose of seeing that the law is strictly observed A S Thomson of ot Kaysville has been appointed d da a special probation officer by Governor Cutler for this tills purpose In Kaysville e where the movement had hall its inception so far as this tilts county Is concerned in an n effort will vill be toe I made malle at the time next council meeting to get the city council to pass an ordinance in increasing increasing creasing the license to at least 1200 A citizens committee is industriously at work circulating petitions asking that this be done Leading taxpayers are said to favor the movement and to offset otts t the time argument that the city cit needs the time revenue the hc petitions being circulated tate state that the time petitioners are willing to tobe tobe tobe be taxed for the tile amount necessary to tomake tomake tomake make up UI the deficiency in case the high license closes the time two saloons that are now doing business bm here It is thought how however however however ever that one saloon will continue busi business business ness floss under the high license The Time petition petitioners ers era believe that even under that condi condition condition condition tion they will have ha won a victory victor be because because because cause it will be easier casler to control one sa en saloon loon boil than two In Bountiful where one saloon Is do doing doing tb ing business s the high license advocates hope to get the time council in line for Cor the time 1200 license The next move on the part Dart of the anti saloon workers will be in a political line In Realizing that local option and finally prohibition must come through the law lawmakers lawmakers lawmakers makers there will be a determined effort eUort made to have strong advocates of prohibition prohibition elected to the next legislature from fromn this tills county and senatorial district The contest for this will it is thought be nonpartisan so that every friend of the cause came can be enrolled under the pro prohibition banner Already Alread the leading ec ecclesiastical authorities of the time Davis D stake have passed resolutions against time the liquor traffic The last action along this line was taken takemi at a priesthood conference held in Farmington last Saturday when John JohnR R 11 Barnes of Kaysville introduced a res resolution resolution resolution strongly condemning the traffic and pledging those present to work for its suppression The resolution was unanimously adopted |
