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Show PROVO COUNCIL FAILS TO CHANGE LIQUOR LAWS Special to the Tribune. PROVO. Nov. P.O. The city council, at its meeting last night, practically finished the revision of the ordinances, and they ire now ready to be turned over lo the new administration. Mayor-elect W. II. Rav was among the visitors in the council coun-cil "chamber last night. II was rumored on the streets yesterday thai the recently enacted prohibition ordinance was lo be repealed or revised at the council session last night, but when the matter was called up there were only two members who favored any change, and the repeal or revision was voted down, S to 2. The druggists are classed In the license schedule lis merchants, but the fact that I bev are forced lo pay a much higher license than other merchants Is looked upon as very significant. The inference Is drawn from a remark made by oiitj of the councllmen. that the extra license exacted ex-acted from the drug stores is. a penalty for selling liquor. "They will sell It anvhow," snld one of the councllinen, "regardless "re-gardless of any prohibition ordinances that may be passed." |