(Editorial Note: Part 204 of a series of further development in the early days that impacted Franklin County. Sources: Cache Valley Newsletter, compiled and edited by Newell Hart; Franklin County
1914-1920; Cache Valley Newsletter
by Thomas Bailey.)
The move towards national laws governing the business of the bootleggers was sluggish. By 1915 only nine state legislatures had joined in the movement. Idaho was not one of them.
The Franklin County Citizen of 1914 reported, âThe executive committee of the Anti-Saloon League of this state is preparing to introduce a bill into the next legislature which will make it a crime for any resident of the state to have any sort of liquor in his possession or in his home. It will not be necessary to show that the citizen attempted to give away to his friends or to sell the liquor. The very fact that he has it in his possession or or in his home will be the most drastic ever offered for passage.â
A Satartia resident opened a self-serve snack shack where people pay with donations.
One customer with no money mopped the floor. Other surprises have materialized.
Store owner donates profits to two remaining churches in the tiny village.
SATARTIA If you walk into Tiny Town Snack Shack in Mississippi s tiniest town, you won t find a clerk to wait on you.
Want a cold drink, sausage biscuit or farm-fresh eggs? That s not a problem, but you won t find any prices. Whatever customers choose to leave in a basket that sits on a counter will do.
What started out as a way to fill a void in the South Delta village of Satartia when the only convenience store in town closed for a year is more than a story about cheese crackers and a root beer. It s a story about neighbors helping neighbors in times of need. It s a place that even inspired a thief to return money he stole from the basket.
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