River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-19

the end Of three months l cast up
my books and found that for July,
August and September, my credit
business was the same as last year,
but my cash business was 80 per
cent better"
Stevenson & Pyall said: I'm
mediately upon the closing of the
saloons, our grocery business
jumped 5000 per month and this in
crease held up to January /, when
we felt the retrenchment which has
been felt all over the land. We are
for no-liCenSe.
LOSE NO FARMERS TRADE.
r. F. Jones, dealer in farm nipple
ments, reports that the farmers who
drink, come to him for implements
just as they did when the saloon was
running. There are few whose
trade has followed the saloon else
where, but he is thereby relieved Of
accounts which were hard to collect
and the remaining trade was the
best he ever had.
Richard Arthur, Savings Bank
Store: Our trade this year has
been the most satisfactory in cur
history"
Upon questioning the proprietor
of the Jones monument works we
were told that, while it is common
ly supposed that saloons are good
for the undertaken, know that some
people can afford monuments when
there is no saloon who could not
afford funerals if the saloon flour
ished."
SAVINGS INCREASE.
A look at the increase in sayings
was enlightening. The First Ma
tional Bank was asked to look at
the comparative number of depoS-
itors and amount of deposits under
license and no-licenSe. Saloons
went out of existence the first Tues
day in July and they compared the
figures of July l with those of Jan
uary l. The following table shows
the gain:
Depositors. Deposits.
July l 377 S 5,048.37
January l 1873 24,318.64
There had been a net gain of Sc
depositors and deposits had in
creased by $29, 270.17, notwithstand
ing the fact that the financial strin-
gency had compelled some to with
draw money during December.
Henry I. Flagg, Hotel Higbee:
There have been more travelling
men stopping here since the saloon
went than ever. One Of them showed
me letter recently from his house,
in which they said that their sales
to Dodgeville merchants had in
creased greatly during the last six
months. Other travelling men in
the room said that the same was
true of their sales.
faxes iii Dodgevilie this year will
be higher. There is state tax this
year for the first time in several
years. They are paying off high
school bonds and have built more
than a mile and a half of cement
sidewalks, the city paying about
So, 900 of the cost of these, yet the
tax rate is only 1924, as against
ST. Is last year. The city lost So, 900
saloon revenue, spent $3, 900 special
tax for walks and yet finds the city
budget only $500 higher than last
year. Surely this is not an exor-
bitant price to pay for the happi-
ness and prosperity which has at
tended no-license.
TESTIMONY COUNTY JUDGE.
Since we have had no-licenSe in
Dodgeville, things have been very
quiet and orderly. We have no
blind pigs. Many Of the old-time
idlers and hangers-on about the
saloons have gone to work and are
earning a respectable living for
themselves and their families. |
hope we may never have saloon
again in DodgeYille.
ALDRO jerks.
Judge Of Iowa Co.
Having decided to leave the city
in the near future, | offer for sale
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