Then the boys from Fountain Green, they came here with their mill. They dug their basement, built their millrace up by that big hill And in the spring of '82 they had their building done And of course we had to celebrate before that mill could run. So they made a great big barrel of beer and we danced till broad daylight And if I should live a hundred years I'd not forget that night."'
According to Joseph H. Jewkes, the mill celebrants consumed "perhaps 2 or 3" forty-gallon barrels of his mother's home-brew: Homemade "anyway plenty so that everyone had all they wanted."213 beer was a popular refreshment at many Emery County celebrations. For teetotalers, there was "lemonade" made from lemon extract and water with molasses as a sweetener. Although the Mormon "Word of Wisdom" prohibited "wine or strong drink," this instruction was widely understood during the nineteenth century as being advice rather than commandment. Many active and devoted Latter-day Saints not only drank beer but also used tobacco, coffee, and tea. Those in particular who had come from places such as England and Denmark, where beer was a dietary staple, saw no good reason to forego a beverage they had enjoyed all their lives. Samuel Jewkes was by all accounts a pious, church-going man, but his supper of choice when he came home from work at the mill was "toast and hot beer, the hot beer being poured over the toast in a large bowl from which he always ate.'"14 The wives of Huntington bishop Peter Johnson prepared home brew according to a Danish recipe and as a by-product always had a good supply of yeast to share with their neighbors. They also made rhubarb wine. Hettie Guymon McArthur Anderson remembered how the Huntington young people used to play baseball on Sunday afternoons near the bishop's home. Afterwards, "The older crowd would all go in and have a drink of Johnson's malt beer. They made about 30 gallons at a time, but I remember after the 'Manifesto' Bishop Johnson forbade them to make or drink anymore.'"15 The "manifesto" referred to was not the Woodruff manifesto discontinuing the practice of plural marriage but rather stronger instructions on the Word of Wisdom that came from church leaders near the turn of the century. Bishop Johnson was
