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Greenville hosts Anti-Saloon League meeting, 1915

KETR | By John Mark Dempsey
Published August 25, 2015 at 6:00 AM CDT
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Hunt County Historical Commission chairman Carol Taylor says Greenville hosted a meeting of the Texas Anti-Saloon League in 1915, as the prohibition movement was reaching its zenith.  Carol says legend has it that the famous temperance crusader Carrie Nation came to Greenville to smash up a saloon.

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John Mark Dempsey
John Mark Dempsey is the host of the public interest program The Blacklands Café from KETR News. Dempsey is also the play-by-play announcer for Commerce Tigers Football on 88.9 FM and on ketr.org.
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