Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-19
FINE SOIL FOR BEETS
IN CASSlA COUNTY
Especial correspondence }


OAKLEY. Feb. 1.-the spring
O"breakup'' In the weather seems to
have como at last
W. A Masters. local field man for
the Utah Idaho Sugar company, with
headquarters at Burley. was in Oak
ley last week. holding meetings with
the farmers with view to getting
contracts signed for u large acreage OF
sugar beets, to be cultivated here dur
ing the coming summer The land
in this part OF the valley is admirably
adapted for the successful cultivation
of this product. Experiments last
summer demonstrated that these old
alfalfa fields will produce from 20 to
30 tons OF beets to the acre. A large
number of contracts for acreage have
crop.
Quite furry was created in the
county last week by an article In the
Burley Bulletin claiming TO give a re-
port of the sale of liquors by drug
storckeepers since local option was
adopted in Casssia county. According
to the figures given in The Bulletin,
Oakley drug stores have filled 17C pre-
scriptions for liquor, in less than two
months, aggrcgating PIX gallons of
whisky. This Is thought by conscrv-
ative citizens to be going some" In
dry town. Many of the prescrip-
tions filed in the county auditors Office
show that 1t required quart OF liquor
60 satisfy each sick man. And on the
top OF this information came the re-
port that there Is at the o. S. l.. sta
tlon at Burley Al cases of bottled whs-
ky consigned TO a stranger who came
to town and hung out a "shingle" In
scribed "Dr. II. Goodfriend." Sheriff
Don c. Loveland and Atty T. Bailey
Lee got busy and Immediately set their
spirits. as 1t is said that the evident
intent In shipping II into Oakley Is TO
violate and defy the law.
AS a result, the local druggists have
posted up signs In their places OF bust
ness, notifying the public that no
liquor Will be sold. only in case of
actual sickness. the prescription for
which must be taken at the bed side"
OF the patient. This course Will have
a wholesome effect on the community
and Will place the druggists in more
favor with the respectable people here
The slurs cast at the temperate" peo-
pie of Oakley as interpreted from
the amount OF liquor sold by the two
drug stores since the local option vote,
are not merited by the good people, as
II Is explained that since local option
was adopted here there have been two
railroad grading outflts at work. or
worse. not able TO work on account
of severe weather: and the force of
foreign lnborors employed at the res
erFolr. i've miles out of town. These
people. 1t Is contendcd. did their share
OF the drinking, thus increasing the
local sale of ardent spirits.
INC county officers arc determined to
apply the law to every violator of its
provisions. so as to give local option
fa,r trlnl
DR.. A. F. o. Nelson has commenced
ciVi action In the Fourth district
court against an individual here by
the name OF Goodfriend for $40. 900 dam
ages for defamation of character. The
case VIII come up i'm March
David II. Langlois of Auquia. Ida.
who has recently returned from a five
months visit to England and the con-
unent. was visitor TO Oakley today
Mrs. Jcnettc Whittle. widow OF
George Whittlc. died at her residence
Monday, Feb. :. after a long Illness
caused by cancer OF the stomach. De-
ceased was born at Nauvoo, Ill. dur
Ing the rise OF tho Church of Jesus
Christ OF Lattcr-day Saints. Mrs.
Whlttic. with hcr husband. was among
the carly settlers in GrantsvIle ToocIe
county Utah, and came to Cassia
county as sturdy pioneers. and in de-
partinR leaves Two sons, William and
Zera, and four daughters. Mrs w, II.
Lee. Mrs, George NJ. Clark. Mrs George
A Day and Mrs. Robert Smith
Mr. and Mrs. William WhlttIe of
Grnntsyillc. Utah. n brother-ln- law of
the deceased. and his wife. were here
to attend the funeral services.