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Show SIXTEEN OUNCES OF WHISKEY CAUSE FOR ARREST Certain -well-known young men, two or three of whom reside at Huntwville, visited Sheriff Hr-rbert C. Peterson today to-day and ask d him, as if in great surprise, sur-prise, whether they had ihe legal right to purchase and take home "tor picnic use" a quart or a gallon or three gallons" gal-lons" ol whiskey. "No, sirep!" replied the sheriff, "you are officially warnpd, here and now and for tho last time, I hope, that If Ji you aro eaucht with more than sixteen fc' ounces of whiskey in your possession, on your person, you will occupy that Jug in there," pointing to the cell room, "and if you have sixteen ounces of whiskey inside your person you also will probably gpt the jug in that manner." man-ner." The sheriff further informed the young men that sixteen ounces of whiskey is one pint and that there are twenty-four ounces of beer in a quart, making the quart illegal. He also said to them- "Be assured j ourselves, and please tell everybody that the new law is now in effect and that I am enforcing it with the utmost rigor, also that such nforrement will continue as long as I am Bheriff f Weber county." oo |