Salt Lake Telegram | 1910-08-18 | Page 9 | Old Church Was Cradle of Prohibition

OLD CHURCH WAS V CRADLE OF PROHIBITION I LEA LEAVENWORTH Kan Nan u Aug IS 18 Never again will wi Ious rel-Ious religious services sor s beheld bo be held in tho the old First Methodist church an edifice edUce hero here known throughout the Iho state as the cradle of or prohibition Recently fire fre destroyed a part of ot the structure and the tue church trustees havo have decided to abandon Ik IL H. H L It I was In the earl early seventies that thai the prohibition movement movement which eventually drove saloons out of at Kansas was given gl Us its Is birth In tho the church A saloon Just across tho the street kept open ODen on Sundays Sunda's Its Is owner defying tho the church members to make him close His defiant defant caused tho the members mem mem- bers of the Iho church to lo start tho first prohibition pro pro- campaign In tho the state