Show MODENA HAS GONE DRY High license Has Had the Effect of Driving the Saloons Out of Business Modena Oct 1 Modena lodena deficient In Inmany Inmany many things s has been noted particularly parti for an atmosphere deficient in humidity This has a tendency to create a desire for fora a strong thirst quencher that revolts at atthe atthe atthe the idea of ot being appeased by ordinary hydration hence the wet goods that Big Bill of ot Bills place the Wonder was wont to place before the alkali covered and thirsty pilgrims that happened in inand Inand inand and such residents as went in anyway made them feel that there were some things that compensated for the arid dis discomforts discomforts discomforts comforts that here abound Today however the burning sands of ot I the Sahara can offer but slightly less solace to the thirsty individual than can Modena for Modena has gone dry dr and nothing but denatured San Pedro water and weak vinegar can be had The commissioners of Iron county count re recently recently recently anticipated local option somewhat bv by raising saloon licenses to per year This rendered the saloon business unprofitable at a number of places and William A Bond who ran a 11 model and decorous d dispensary of fermented and dis distilled distilled tilled thirst slaking liquids here closed his ils doors upon on the expiration of his for former former former mer license last night to remain shut tight until camels become extinct in Iron county count The mayor ma or of Lund upon receipt of the news sent the mayor of ot Modena a mes message message message sage of ot sympathy s and magnanimously placed the waters of Sulphur Wells Veils at athe atthe atthe the he disposal of our citizens In the hour of a consuming thirst Robert C Lund jr of ot Pioche Nev visited Modena i yesterday esterday and shouted Hooray for Bryan Br an He tic reports report busi ow business usi ness good across the line Une and ana was Va busy bus busall all day engaging teams to meet the re requirements requirements requirements of his Increasing forwarding forwar business In the old Bonanza camp He reports ore being offered In lots for or team transportation to the railroad and that the news of ot A W V Scotts suc sue succession succession cession to presidency of the Boston Pioche Mining company was received with much satisfaction The crop of pine nuts has been unusual unusually ly h y heavy In the mountains this fall and the he Indians have hae reaped a bountiful har liar harest harvest vest est William Villiam Bond purchased approximately one ton of nuts from them yesterday and a considerable quantity was taken by them to St George where they the do service as cash for tor the Indians as they the pay ay their delinquent store bills with them hem The nuts are exceptionally large this year Jear and are greedily taken by store storekeepers storekeepers keepers as a profit of ot 6 to S cents per pound is made by them The experimental dry dr farm at Enter Enterprise Enterprise prise prize under the able management of John Day produced four different varieties of ot raisin grapes this year that equal in size and weight some of best production A display of this fruit will doubtless be seen at the coming state fair air and will prove a revelation to the Intelligent beholder |