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Show 'TIS THREE YEARS AGO SINCE UTAH DRY SPELL BEGAN Three years ago last night Ogden Og-den celebrated the death of John Barleycorn to th ringing of hurch bells and the clink of glaesware in the saloons. Nobody has ever estimated just bow much hard liquor was drunk the laft few hours before the state went dry and nobody has made an estimate as to the amount of stuff ihnl was stored away In cellars before the nine o'clock curfew whistle resulted in ousting of the last celebrant from the sloppy saloons. But If nobody has heard any sell mates made of tiie afore-I afore-I mentioned amounts, there has scarcely been nnybodv w ho hasn t heard such remarks as this: "1 only wish that I had put away a few more bottles." After two years of prohibition, it seems to be the general Impression Im-pression (hat it has been a fine thing for the city. Anyhow the residents of l'tah had two eira longer to get u.od to prohibition that the residents nf states in which liquor was sold until i'nelo Sam closed (ho rum shops. . rs . |