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To the Honorable Mayor and City Council, Cedar City. Whereas the rise of intemperance is Utah ... Gentlemen: growing to an alarming extent in Cedar City and drawing within its meshes of destruction many young men of this town. And whereas the conditions now prevalent among us in this particular are bound to have a demoralizing effect upon the youth of this community and be detrimental in the extreme to the educational interests of our people; now therefore, we the undersigned citizens and residents deprecating the evils of intemperance and desiring ever to promote and advance the interest of our people, especially the moral and educational training of our youth, and to build up and develop the institutions of our City, do hereby petition your honorable body to take such s t e p s , and to enact such legislation and measures a s may be necessary, to restrain and restrict, o r entirely prohibit, the liquor traffic of this City. Dated July 31. 1903. Signed by Mrs. Ann Thorley and other citizens. The Mayor announced that the petition of Mrs. Thorley and others was now before the Council. Mrs. Thorley, in a brief speech, stated the reasons for presenting the petition, setting forth some of the many evils apparent in the liquor traffic, the danger of the destruction of property by fire. also the unsightly conditions of men upon the streets of our town, together with the rumor that Sunday selling of liquor was reported. Petition referred to Committee on Petitions. Aug. 5 , 1 9 0 3 . . .Committee on Petitions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Annie Thorley and associate petitioners, reported that they h a d , in connection with the City Attorney, considered the prayer of said petition and had concluded t h a t , under the provisions of the City Ordinances, the Council could not legally refuse to grant a license for the business of liquor dealing, in consequence of there being no prohibitory ordinance to that effect; a n d , a s the Council had recently granted a license for a period of 6 months, they could not commence at this time to prohibit the liquor traffic in this City. But, thought the matter should be kept before the Council, with the view to enact a prohibitory measure at about the time the present licenses were expiring. Committee further recommended that the petitioners be presented with a written reply on the lines of their report. On motion of Councilman Leigh, committee report was accepted and adopted. Carried. Committee on Petitions, to whom was referred the application of the Roy Exchange Saloon for a renewal of their liquor license, reported having in connection with the City Attorney investigated the matter with a view to refuse said license on the grounds set forth in the petition of Mrs. Annie Thorley and associate petitioners: and had, after careful consideration and examination of the City Ordinances, concluded that the City Council could not legally refuse a
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| Title | Mayors of Cedar City |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K.; Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Subject | Mayors -- Utah -- Cedar City -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- Politics and government; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Includes biographies of the mayors of Cedar City and examples from the city minutes showing the events that took place under each administration. The three histories printed in the second section were written by three men at three different times in the history of Cedar City. |
| Source | Mayors |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1986 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Publisher | Southern Utah State College |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/mayors.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 535.cpd |
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