Show much interest in liquor election at a meeting of the roost most substantial busi bust ess men of ogden held a few days ago there wis was a general discus a on ot both sa s1 siles les ot of the I 1 quor ques tion both the w evicts ets and the drys I 1 were invited to this meeting and after a disc lesion of several hours the whole situation A aa as thrashed out with the result that in making a choice between prohibition and the strict regulation these business men representing the various interest chose the strict regulation the new liquor law allows the ogden saloons to remain open until midnight but the saloon men have voluntarily agreed to close their places of busi bust ness at 9 0 clock there is but one more day for re reg isterling june see that your name is upon the registration books or you cannot vote at the comi ig election within the past few days mans mam church people u who ho ar firm be a in prohibition provided ic it i is state wide have ex exor Dressed essed them selves aa as favoring the well regulated saloon in I 1 preference to the blind pig andele and the boot legging of whiskey from one to town n to another I 1 here can be no L ing gained in having one town diy daiy and a neighboring town wet I 1 and virbest judg telli us that tha titis it is impractical to try and force prohibit tion upon this mining cam camp there is no q kestion in 0 ir minds abut but what prohibition woul I 1 be an utter failure for the reason that it would be next to imp oisille ae to enforce such ala v in I 1 eureka with reference to the question fuestion this city cit is far ahead of the ar dr towns of the state at this time i we have i me ine well regulated which are paying a great deal money into the city rv every emery year ear and this lightens the tax of every one who ans property A few years ago provo was receiving the revenue from a few saloons and now that the town is arn dr I 1 there are about fifteen places where laiq liquor bior can be purchased fifteen blind p gs I 1 ta king the place of a few well regulated saloons and condi conditi tio ois is are equally as bad at lehi american fork Spring springville ville payson and in fact every prohibition town in the state 0 A prohibition meeting was held the thel L D S church in this city sunday evening the various church es of the cita taking pait in the meet II 11 g fred ired lars n acted as chairman of the meeting and mike was wag secretary the speakers were dax daid id 0 kay a well known bit from ogden rev mchar ness of the baptist ch arch R of the episcopal hurch and rev rey al lison ison of the al E church there was a good attendance and before the close of the meeting a committee selected to look after the campaign in behalf ot of the dry I 1 forces the coming election fred larsen mil ill be chairman of this committee rev NIcIl arness secretary and rev allison treasurer at the meeting of the city council held last friday fridan evening judges were appointed tor for the liquor election on the of this month the neland net and dry forces are equally represented in the matter of election judges the list for the various precincts is given below no 1 I leo P pendleton R A badger and john hannifin no 2 D A lindsay J F P neil son and adam sw eigert no 3 johng john 1 bunnell E R hen dr ickson and walter henry no 4 rev mcharness vt D me mc adams and W G foster poster ane following article taken frani issue of the american F fork or ir on CIL izan will no doubt be of interest to the people of this city inaam inasmuch itch as it tells something about conditions in th ahr so called dry towns of the state that prohibition and the seizure of t e liquor in the blind pigs will not prohibit the sale of liquor entire ly IV or cut close was manifested on june 1st when r M brown drug giat gist in conformity with the new state law filed all his prescriptions with the city recorder NN while hile the law had only been in effect 19 days mr brown turned turied over doctors pre prescript scrip ions for whiskey brandy or and there are two other drug stores whose business in this line will ably equal that of brown it seems that there is always a loop hole tor for taeman the man who wants intoxicating li it quor another thing that conid could be corn com dented upon that would surprise the people of this city is the great amount of bottled whiskies and beers being shipped into this city one morning this week five barrels of bottled beer 72 bottle each was wag received for diff erent individuals is at one of the rail road depots while shipments ot of whiskey in gallon to five gallon lots we are informed by the agent are numerous Y |