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(Editorial Note: Part 202 of a series of further development in the early days that impacted Franklin County. Sources: Preston Booster, 1912-13; The American Pageant by Thomas A. Bailey; Life Story of David Davis; The History of Bannock County, 1893-1993.) The national movement towards laws dealing with the making and selling of intoxicating liquors was already underway when people first settled on acreage located in the lands of northern Cache Valley and beyond. Liquor consumption had increased during the tense days of the Civil War; immigrant groups who were used to free-flowing alcohol in “the Old Country” did not want to have restrictions in this new land. Saloons were called “the poor man’s club,“ because they kept the man and his family poor, due to his drinking addiction. Temperance reformers faced hostility in their efforts to push forth some sort of control. The National Prohibition Party, organized in 1869, garnered very few votes at election polls

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