Tuesday, January 17, 2017

In Juab County, you can hide your cash the same way they hid booze during prohibition days.

In the Nephi, Utah Jones family, we hear tell of a time when one of our own had a unique way of hiding his bottle during prohibition days. He put it in a barrel of grain, thus keeping it the proper temperature summer and winter without Elliot Ness ever dream of shaking down the old barn. Not long ago I heard another tall tale about how another local hid his cash the same way, as he grew up during the depression when banks went belly up. When he died, the farm was sold, and the newcomers have not yet been able to locate the stashed cash, if there really was any. Although our family no longer has grain drums or the barn, we have located two coin purses, one of which we previously wrote of. Both are pictured and trying to figure out whose the new one belonged to and what to do with it. Although it may not show up on the scan, the contents are two wheat pennies, one appears to be 1912 and the other 1920. It is only an assumption, but we figure the coin purse is about a hundred years old. Do we give them to the Daughters of Utah Pioneers or what! We need your two cents worth! The newer coin purse has the back inscription of "Genuine Llama Calf", which is baffling, as our family only dealt with cow leather. Perhaps we will give it to the next Llama calf that claims it or to the "Save the Llama Foundation". Perhaps it belongs to Butch Cassidy when he returned from South America.



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