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
(Editorial Note: Part 192 of a series of further development in the early days that impacted Franklin County. Sources: U. S. Census records, 1900, 1910, 1920; Franklin County Citizen, issues 1912-1920; Obituaries, Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News; Hometown Album, edited and compiled by Newell Hart; Cache Valley Newsletter, compiled by Newell Hart)
In the early 1900âs a town that was making every effort to establish itself seemed to attract photographers. Not long after N. M. Degn set up his Photography studio in Preston in 1907, another photographer arrived.
He was known professionally as R. A. Jones. Like Degn, he was recently married and Preston looked promising for their future. Robert Alexander Jones, born in 1874 in Salt Lake City, had worked as a farm laborer around the Riverdale area in Weber County, Utah. He served a church mission in New Zealand, then married a young lady from Weber county, Helen Marr Fuller, in 1908. They set up housekeeping in Preston, advertising th