Show firms agree to take tonics from shelves A faie spirit ot of cooperation was waa shown by dealers here when they were called into a special council meeting on monday and asked to retrain from selling so called wine tonics which have created quite a demand as beve beverages ragis three institutions admitted having sold gold some borne 6 them the two awe drug stores and the mercantile lebut but representatives ot of each who were at the meeting agreed to take them oft off their shelves and expressed a wll wl lin gness to cooperate with the tha city the matter was brought to councils attention in connection with a recent case caa in which the city marshal had taken a bottle 0 of on ore e or of the ta fa brands of so called tonic from an individual who ho has since been convicted of being drunk at the time he purchased it the proprietor ot of the place from which he Is alleged to have purchased the bottle admitted selling it to him but denied knowing that hr he was drunk at the time the sa sale a war made the marshal asked the council 1 they cared in view of 0 recent rulings of the attorney general the federal director salt ladt ot 01 s pus pug alp bring a case against tile the firm whick made the sale bale the city attorney recommended that in view of the tact fact that it haw has been a mooted question tor for some time as to whether sale ot of these tonics tonice were a violation ot of tho the law the firms selling them be asked to retrain from it in the future then it 11 they refused to cooperate the attorney suggested a suit to test the law lam would undoubtedly be proper acting upon his recommendation the council decided to rall call those con corned into a regular meeting which was to bs be held on wednesday evening the marshal however de ceded aided that the town should be dried up before new years eye eve and 8 prevailed on the mayor to call special meeting on monday the mercantile was represented a the meeting by one ot of its directors L N marsden who stated staled that hit firm had sold evine but had bad already decided not to stock any more and anci that they had none DOII at the presen time and have any in future mrs bardwell green and green stated that 3 would be glad to cooperate an nelson fenton who represented tin radowan drug co in the absence 0 his father it L fenton nho aho we wa out of the city made a similar stat ment some unpleasantness waa vas injects into the meeting it is reported when tho the barahal nia rahal questioned tin sincerity of one of the firms ant anc said he would feel more certain i they would box up what they had bad and turn it over to the city to bi bc locked up until it could be ba sold back to the wholesalers an invitation was finally extend ed by the dealers to the mayor and an the council to go into their of business and see what they ha ba in stock with the privilege of box ing it up it they desired dc aired tho the upshot of it all was that nine cases of virginia dare and a few miscellaneous bottles of apparently less lesa favorite brands from the paro w wn n drug and ap an unopened case ol 01 0 one of the brands from green and green were taken and locked up by the marshal the latter official also alfo took samples of several articles which in hit opinion can be and have been use for beverage purposes and sent then them in to the state slate chemist to be abaly zed PT |