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Show Our Exchanges. ' The new cigarette ordinance is causing quite a sensation among the boys. If the marshal catches a youDg man smoking he asks him if lie is twenty -one yeara oJd. If he says no he is handled for breaking, a city ordinance and fined, If he answers an-swers yes the marshal says, ''Well, J am just looking for men to work polltax." The young man, it appears ap-pears will either have to work or quit puffing smoke. Emery Co. Progress. At midnight next Saturday a wholesale whole-sale slaughter of Utah saloous is scheduled to take place, as that is the time when the new condition of affairs called for by the voters last Jnne will be imhered in.' The change will not be marked in Sanpete county as in some other counties for most of the towns have long since become dis-eusted dis-eusted with the license saloon 8nd have legislated it out of existence. Having tried tha water wagon for some time and found it a practical conveyance, these towns now welcome wel-come their more dilatory sisters to the fold. And t.'y are not entirely unselfish un-selfish in this matter, for it has often been asserted that the soiled skirts of these tardy sisters have been a menace men-ace to their neighbors. It is natural, therefore, for them to want neighbors with, garments that are at leaot as well laundered as their own. And after next Saturday we are to have a taste of prohibition on as big a scale as it is possible to make jt without making it state-wide. If it is found to beias much better than our present pres-ent condition as this condition has been found to excel that which prevailed pre-vailed under the licensed saloon, why Bhould we not expect atate-wide prohibition pro-hibition within the next two years? Ephraim Enterprise, Sept. 28. |