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Show 'SALT LAKE WILL GO DRY That is Prediction of the "Drys" in Salt Lake City The Campaign is Warming Up "Drys" Will Fire First 'Gun Any Ogden Next Week. A 1 . ' .'.-j r r. The Prohibition people are happy in Salt Lake City. .It Is cjnlmod that a canvass of the women voters In the capital city reveals that 78 per cent of tho women '.n Salt Lake City will vote to abolish tho saloon on June 27, 1911. and that fully 40 per cent of the men will do likewise, thus assuring Salt Lake City a "dry" town for the next October In Ogden there aro no claims made In the Prohibitionists and from present pres-ent appearances the local option fight has little llfo in Ogden. but the futuro shows signs of action Some time next week the first gun will be fired in the Ogden Tabernacle. Apostle David O. McKay is slated as presiding officer. Beyond that tho writer could learn nothing It has been snid, however, how-ever, that four of the ablest and most eloquent temperance lecturors will be In Ogden and will speak In each of tho eight ecclesiastical wards In Ogden Og-den city, as well as in tho Ogdeu and Orphoum theaters Tho saloon people are doing nothing sc far as the writer can learn. It is asserted that all tho bill boards in tho city will be engaged by the "drys" in order to post great pictures illustrating the road "some mother's bov" travels under the wet sjstem. This will be offset b tho "wets" showing show-ing pictures of forsaken cities and tumble down factories as tho result of a dry campaign. There will be ample opportunity to study the question from all sides. For every picture of a forsaken cltv and abandoned factories posted by" tho "wets," the "drys" will show hoppy homes and prosperous surroundings. surround-ings. "Yes," said a Salt Lake man yesterday, yes-terday, "I firmly boheve that tho capital cap-ital city will voto dry next June and, further, that Murray will bo the only city In Utah that will remain "wet," -Well," said an Ogden man, "that will be going some, anyhow." i |