Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-03-22 | Page 6 | Whiskey and a Mayor Mixed

WHISKEY AND A MAYOR MIXED HUNTSVILLE HAS THE WOES Or INTEMPERANCE. Tried to Stop Liquor Traffic, But "Blind Pigs" Got Many of the Young Men Drunk. Will A. J. Anderson be made mayor of HuntsvUIc? A majority or the council coun-cil favor him, but he must first ro-plgn ro-plgn as Justice r the peace. The prospective pros-pective mayor Is disinclined to forfeit his right to the office he now holds before he Is doubly assured the promised prom-ised honor of being mayor of Hunts-vi!lo, Hunts-vi!lo, and this hesitancy may work hl. undoing. All Hunuville is In a turmoil. tur-moil. They want a Justice who will down I he liquor element and they ie. sire a mayor who will aid in tho work. Two nights last week, after daices given by church organizations, thirty-two thirty-two empty whiskey bottles were found in and around the dance hall, and this evldenco that Huntsvllle is still decidedly de-cidedly "wet." although it has gone "dry" is stirring the stern daddies and their better halves to their utmost to drive out the "blind pigs" where their boys obtain liquor. At these dances in Huntsvllle many of the young men were drunk.