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Some mention of the problems of prohibition in the Cedar City area was made in a letter written by Ann's husband, Bert Gardner, shortly before he died, to Will Jones while he was on a mission in Australia. As Bert indicates in part of the letter quoted as follows, there were many humorous aspects to the situation. "Dear William, I don't know what Ann has written, so if I repeat, it may not he the same words anyway. I'll say though in the beginning that your picture of the wine and women appeals to me. In that regard too, we have here 'White Mule' and, in some quarters, ladies come in as a sideline. -4ustralia hasn't got us scooped far enough but what the church has seen fit to 'butt' in. h4ayor Neslen came down with Dr. Broaddus from Salt Lake City, and told us we should clean our back dooryards, both physically and spiritually - that was a week ago Saturday. Sunday morning the parents class, L. W. Jones in charge, started the cleaning! Resolution No. 1 . . . We want a city marshal who will arrest the mayor if he gets 'full', or will lock up hoth the mayor and the city marshal if they have 'a time' conjointly. No. '2 . . . Be it resolved that the marshal shall, when in collusion with others in the manufacture of 'home brew', 'White Mule', etc.. find himself lifted forceably by a part of a boot nearest the great toe, from his official chair, and a more fit and scrupulous person shall take the seat recently abandoned hy said individual. No. 3 . . .Be it (this is in parentheses and said in a more or less translucent manner in order that politeness be fittindy considered) resolved that the mayor. with dne respect, vote of thanks, and so forth, shall he gently placed on the track already takm hy said marshal. After this modest effort, articles the 4. 5, 6, etc., proclaimed eloquently r e ~ a r d i n g more physical type of cleaning such as ren~ovnlof barns, refuse, etc. f Incidentally. I want a hox seat, one in the gallery may he safer, when said resolutions are presented to the city council next meeting) ." "Since you left, the rvatcr question has come in for its share of puhI t . It has been thrown into conrt by the State Engineer and some. seem now not as anxious to have it there as was their want hefore. Incidentally, 'Unur Uncle' (Bert) has some 275-300 papers to serve personally, and the same number of water claims to make out preparatory to their heing filed with the court." "You have no doubt, by this time, stirred up world's of enthusiasm, distributed 'uddles' of tracts, heen wound u p by half a dozen ministers, and pone home t o i t u d v the Scriptures. If nnt, you are more or less fortunate ( I don't know which) than some of ns. By the way, I, with about 19 other 70's from Cedar, have been called to proclaim the gospel here at home. E. h l . Corry, the senior president of this quorum, is mission president and the other presidents of 70's are conference presidents. We have

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Title	Lehi Willard Jones: Biography
Creator	Jones, York F., 1925-; Jones, Evelyn K.
Subject	Jones, Lehi Willard, 1854-1947; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History; Mormon Church -- Utah
Description	Life of Lehi Willard Jones, centering in Cedar City, Utah, 1854-1947, and history of much of the development of Southern Utah
Source	Lehi Willard Jones
Date Digital	2008-01
Date Original	1972
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Contributing Institution	Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah
Publisher	Woodruff Printing Company
Language	eng
Genre	Biography
Website	http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lehiwillardjones.html
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Description	Some mention of the problems of prohibition in the Cedar City area was made in a letter written by Ann's husband, Bert Gardner, shortly before he died, to Will Jones while he was on a mission in Australia. As Bert indicates in part of the letter quoted as follows, there were many humorous aspects to the situation. "Dear William, I don't know what Ann has written, so if I repeat, it may not he the same words anyway. I'll say though in the beginning that your picture of the wine and women appeals to me. In that regard too, we have here 'White Mule' and, in some quarters, ladies come in as a sideline. -4ustralia hasn't got us scooped far enough but what the church has seen fit to 'butt' in. h4ayor Neslen came down with Dr. Broaddus from Salt Lake City, and told us we should clean our back dooryards, both physically and spiritually - that was a week ago Saturday. Sunday morning the parents class, L. W. Jones in charge, started the cleaning! Resolution No. 1... We want a city marshal who will arrest the mayor if he gets 'full', or will lock up hoth the mayor and the city marshal if they have 'a time' conjointly. No. '2... Be it resolved that the marshal shall, when in collusion with others in the manufacture of 'home brew', 'White Mule', etc.. find himself lifted forceably by a part of a boot nearest the great toe, from his official chair, and a more fit and scrupulous person shall take the seat recently abandoned hy said individual. No. 3...Be it (this is in parentheses and said in a more or less translucent manner in order that politeness be fittindy considered) resolved that the mayor. with dne respect, vote of thanks, and so forth, shall he gently placed on the track already takm hy said marshal. After this modest effort, articles the 4. 5, 6, etc., proclaimed eloquently r e ~ a r d i n g more physical type of cleaning such as ren~ovnlof barns, refuse, etc. f Incidentally. I want a hox seat, one in the gallery may he safer, when said resolutions are presented to the city council next meeting)." "Since you left, the rvatcr question has come in for its share of puhI t. It has been thrown into conrt by the State Engineer and some. seem now not as anxious to have it there as was their want hefore. Incidentally, 'Unur Uncle' (Bert) has some 275-300 papers to serve personally, and the same number of water claims to make out preparatory to their heing filed with the court." "You have no doubt, by this time, stirred up world's of enthusiasm, distributed 'uddles' of tracts, heen wound u p by half a dozen ministers, and pone home t o i t u d v the Scriptures. If nnt, you are more or less fortunate ( I don't know which) than some of ns. By the way, I, with about 19 other 70's from Cedar, have been called to proclaim the gospel here at home. E. h l. Corry, the senior president of this quorum, is mission president and the other presidents of 70's are conference presidents. We have 202
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