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Show FIRE DESTROYS THE CRADLE OF PROHIBITION Loaven worth, Kan., Aug. 18. Never again will religious services be held hi the old First Methodist church, at. edifice here known throughout tbo state a "tho cradlo of prohibition" Recently fire destroyed a part of the structure and the church trustees have decided to abandon It It was In tl" early 70s that tbo irohlbltion movement, which eventually even-tually drove if loons out of Kansas. wjs given its birth in the church A ealoon Just across tho street kept oueu on Sundays. Its owner defying the church members to make him dose. Ills defiant aMlt'iJo caused the members of th church to start the t'.rst prohibition campaign in tho stale. |