Show PIONEER DAYS RECALLED I TITHE REPORT CAUSES COMMENT I IJOHN Ii JOHN BARlEYCORN PAID PAE special session of or orth Following Following- a n short tr th the city commission Its Is members bo- bo sore came ct reminiscent th this s morn morning 11 I hear that President nt Joseph 1 F. F Smith has made public the report ol ot the auditing ha committee on the time church ith- ith Ins Ings for the past year ar I Isn't n t that un unusual un- un usual asked a n c city ty official Those Thoe wid it was fly the wn va I said Another r official of tithing didn't the tho c city ty intire In Inthe tire the earl carl early days dat conduct the tho Its Is church own liquor luor tithes to storo store and pay a Commissioner H. H W. W Lawrence r c said It it did in Iii the early days before tho the railroad came camo In the et city controlled the Hale saie Sac of or liquor which was dispensed In InU U haa basement bailment rent of or the Ire cl city bul building ln Drinking on err the tho Premises was as not trot permitted per Per- 01 that the and It wan Wl i provided homel homo home liquor must roust he be taken l I 1 remember as au a bo boy tl that I people cop o to the tho building and bou bought OUR nt ht the their r came liquor Commissioner Heb Heber r M. M 1 Veils Veila was ras siphoned from tho the said Kali Whisky SH casks Into jUgs and bottles boltes and th the amount charged up to whoever Pur pur I I it There Thero saloon In it Ther was no o thO those days das Later high license was I agreed on the tine cl city went out of or the tho business antI and the tire police pollo regulated the tho sain of liquor It l was as about Just before I re resigned 10 ro- ro signed from time the city council counci Commissioner Commis II 11 I. I W. W Lawrence said fald Tho ho city hail had purchased some omo whisky k that It I paid lIard 1 UiO rO a gallon alon for The Tire railroad was then their building Ins into Salt Sal Lake I re remarked ro- ro marked that as ns soon as ns tho time road roal reached tho the cily cly f ci freight ht would b be much cheaper anti and nd that whisky would have to lo bo sold n nt lit t a loss JOSH unless It I InH Was wan disposed of or quickly I was as right It I was sold old for 20 rO When hen the road came care Into the elt city you ou could lJ buy It by hy the gallon alon for that fl figure ul and the tire cl city t had hind to stand nd the tire loss I dont don't remember Just how much It was but I guess It Jt was enough But then iren wo we did things thinKs differently n mm n those thole days and tine the venerable member of or the tho city commission ane laughed quietly J I and anal iris bin eyes ces twinkled c as an his Iris thoughts harked back bac over a n span of ot almost fifty years year |