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4LM PER TEAR.ATTICA, INDIANA. SATUREREFUSED TO RAISE LIMITRatio of Saloons Fixt One to Each 500.AtBoard of Commissionen Overrules Pleo of Drya and Iaaaea Licenaeo to Eight Applicants.After listening to argument* of law* yen, laymen and politiciana for the creator part of Monday, pondering over the matter over night and then hearing a brief resumption of the arguments Tuesday forenoon the board of commiaaionen at 11:00 o'clock announced its decision to iaaue a saloon license -to every five hundred of the population in the cities of Attica and Covington, instead of raising the ratio to one for ■each one thousand as had been urged by the temperance people.Monday morning a score of the leaders of the anti-saloon forces went to ’ Covington to appeal to the county commissioners to exercise the option given them under the new Proctor liquor law and raise the ratio of saloon licenses in units of this county from one to each five hundred to one to each one thousand inhabitants. On the same train went a delegation of about the same number made up of the applicants for saloon license, with their friends and character witnesses/ The crowd as it gathered at the train lookt much larger than it was and attracted much attention at Covington as it marched up the street from the depot to the grim and tuneted old ruin that serves as a court bouse.The commissioners’ court convened at 10:30. In deference to the crowd the regular business of the session was sidetracked and after adjourning to the auditor’s office to afford room that all might hear the matter was thrown open for argument The Covington 4rys were also alive to the situation and had made preparation to put up an argument in behalf of the county seat. Judge Milford spoke first and jpr twenty-five minutes argued the matter on behalf of the opponents of the saloon, setting forth many reasons why the number of licenses should be restricted to the smallest number possible. He / .was followed by J. W. Harrison who, as the largest employer of labor in the city and - as a representative of the women’s organization, also urged the increast limitation. Fred S. Purnell as attorney for the saloon men then ad-drest the court and presented the arguments of the wets as to why the larger number of saloons should be permitted to operate.Under the provisions of the Proctor law the population of cities of this class is arrived at by multiplying the vote cast for mayor at the last city election by five. This gives Attica a theoretical population of 4,095 and under the maximum limitation Would permit but four saloons and under the minimum eight. In Covington it was a question of either two or five.During Mr. Purnell’s argument theand there were two or t)...... toMayor Reed, F. W. Ma-George M. 1 Harrison and Attorneys Purnell and Milford were the pertieipants and some of the remarks proved highly interesting to the crowd that packt the auditor’s office. It was nearing train time as , Mr. Purnell finished his speech and moat of the Attica drys withdrew and returned home. The Covingtop men 7 promptly took their places at the bar however, the argument being taken up by O. S. Douglass, who spoke until noon. After the noon recess Attorney V. E. Livengood also spoke in favor of the limitation and was followed by O. Perry Lewis and O. L. Jones, who argued that it would be calamitous to limit Covington to two thirst-quenching stations in view of the fact that there were no saloons in any other town bathe whole seven and presenting their written applications. Each then appeared before the board and under oath made declaration that he was the sole proprietor of the saloon be desired to run, that no brewery or other corporation had any interest whatever in it, that he had not been convicted of a felony within fifteen years, that he was of good moral character, and a number of other things required by the new law. In addition to his own statement each is required to prove Mb good character by two witnesses and. Levi Levor and F. W. Macoughtry performed this service for William Lippold, Mr. 'Leyor and J. W. Reece for Jacob Weinman and Edward Rutledge, Mr. Levor and Paul Weber for Anton Schmid, Mr. Weber and Thos. Ward for Newman Russell, Felix Hagel and Fred Lemper for Ed. H. Reidlinger, and O. L. Crandall and F. W. Macoughtry for Henry Quinn. Mr. Macoughtry made the hit of the afternoon when he solemnly asserted under oath that when he first saw Mr. Quinn he thought he was a Sunday school teacher!With the exception of Quinn these men have all resided in Attica for a number of years and are well known in the community, Lippold, Weinman and Schmid having conducted saloons be fore. Russell has tended bar before but Rutledge and Reidlinger are novices in the business. Both are young men, the former being 27 and the latter but 23 years of age. Quinn formerly conducted a saloon in East Converse, in Grant county, in 1902-3 Five of the seven applicants are members of the Catholic church.Following the examination of the applicants the commissioners adjourned until Tuesday morning, Commissioners Waggoner and Copeland remaining in Covington and Commissioner Wright going to his home in HilUboro. Realizing that they were hopelessly combat-against political influence the Attica drys did not return to the charge on Tuesday, the attorney for the saloon men and a representative of Th) Press being the only Atticans in attendance at the session. The Covington Civic union persisted in its fight however and for three quarters of an hour the ques tion was argued informally while the board awaited the coming of Mr. Wright. Mr. Douglass spoke for the drys and Messrs. Lewis and Purnell for the wets, Covington’s Mayor also asking that the larger number be allowed in order to swell the amount of city revenue. Soon after Mr. Wright’s arrival the bo rd went into executive session to consider the matter, and for thirty minutes debated the question.The board heretofore has been almost always unanimous in its rulings and this discussion was an effort on the part of Commissioners Waggoner and Copeland to persuade Commissioner Wright to vote with them. His mind was made up however and he refused to change it. At 11:00 the doors of the chamber were thrown open and to the crowd that filed .into the room Mr. Waggoner as presi of the board announced that it had decided to allow one saloon for each 500 population. The received without applause stration of any kind exeept expansive grins on the part of some of the Covhad signed the Proctor regulative measure be issued a call for a special meeting of the council. At that meeting all members were present and an ordinance raising the city license from $250 to 5500 was past, ^t a special meeting of this kind an unanimous vote of the council is necessary to pass an ordinance and this was given, ’ each alderman voting for the passage of the ordinance.The city license together with the county and government license, the expense of bond, attorney's fee and publication fee makes the total of $775 each saloon-keeper will have to pay before opening his place of business. Each of those who were granted a lie ense by the county commissioners Wednesday must pay the city fee to the city treasurer by some time Monday or his county license becomes null and void.An effort has been made among the saloon men to keep any of the saloons from opening up until five or six could open at the same time. It is doubtful, however, whether or not this will be done as those who are ready are anxious to begin realizing on what their licenses have cost them and in all probability some of them will be open for business today.The board then took up five applications that had been filed for Covington and after the personal fitness to operate saloons had been proven by witnesses some objection was madi part of the drys to the rear entrance of one of the rooms where one proposed to open his saloon. This action resulted in the board going in a body to the five rooms accompanied by County Attorney Livengood, the city mayor and the marshal, all of inspected the rooms. In order t ply with the law some minor chargesbetween Covington and Terrs Haute.drys by O. B. Ratcliff, who injected a little humor into his address and thus tension that was steadilyWhen the arguments were concluded the eommissioaers announced that they matter under adviae-but in theOn Tuesday afternoon the seven plications for this city and the five for Covington were granted and most of the applicants appeared at the auditor’s office Wednesday and took out the long fkt document. In the mean the rooms to be occupied were beingRabb Roves to Logansport.The elimination of Judge Rabb from the political affairs of Warren county is now. assurred and to the relief of all concerned it can be said authoritatively that he will not be a candidate for judge of the Benton-Warren circuit court at the next election. It was announced when he formed a partnership with Mike Mahoney, a. Logansport that he had no further aspirations to sit on the circuit bench but he maintained his residence at Williamsport and the ghost of possible candidacy continued to haunt the political councils of his party.Those who have been figuring on the candidacy of the judge sb a certainty can now revise their figures as he removed his residence from Williamsport to Logansport this week and he and his wife are now at home at 1005 Market street, in that city. Althohe was long invulnerable in his home district and served the people of the 21st judicial circuit for eighteen years he accumulated a few political enemies durirg that time and they have wogked so industriously to undermine his popularity during the time he was in Indianapolis that it was extremely doubtful whether or not be could be re-elected again. It is said that some of the judge’s close friends advised him of the situation and this may have aided in his decision to remove to LogansportRon Down by Atfto.A few minutes before 8:00 o’clock Saturday evening R. B. Kramer’s big Packard car ran down Herbert Scott on Perry street and the lad had a close call to losing his life. He had been loitering about the vicinity of the pic tore shows whre some other boys were teasing him. In an effort to get away from them he started across the street toward Hatton's drug store, darting out from between a couple of buggies standing at the hitchrack. When he reacht the middle of the street the big auto driven by Charley Gustus came gliding along and the lad was unable to get out of its way. He was knocked down and the fact that the machine straddled his body instead of the wheels passing over him is probably accountable for the fact that his life was spared.The boy was piekt up unconscious and carried into Hatton’s drug store. Upon examination by the physicians it was found that his body was badly bruised and had several large skinned places. One hand * s cut badly and bleeding profusely. It is thought the cut was received when the lamp of the car struck him as tj»e glass was broken and blood found on the inside of the lamp. iAlt ho it will be several days before the lad will join his playmates the attending physician does not anticipate any very serious effects from Ms injury.were being placed with ti more brewery agents that have haunted the city. As soon as it wi that eight licenses would be granted for Attica Clime brothers, who formerly had a saloon where the pool room is now located, began to look around for a place to open up and finally secured the room occupied by the bowling alley, which is to be moved across the street into the place reeently vacated by the Ford automobile garage. In the Fountain-Warren Democrat this week one of the Climes gives notice that he will apply for license at the April term.As foretold by the Press last week the city council raised the city saloon license to the highest notch, which is $600 altho a special session of the council was necessary to do it. As soon asMarried in St. Joe.Miss Mabel C. Lippold, of thta city, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lipp dd, of west Pike street, was married Wednesday, March 8th, to Ivan O. Godwin,j of Chicago. Tbs-ceremony was per-1 formed at St. Joseph, Mich., and fol- j lowing the marriage the couple earnest ooee to this city to spend a few days with the bride’s parents before beginning housekeeping in Chicago. The groom is a brother of Charles Godwin, a former husband of the bride, from whom she secured a divorce some time ago ^ftera separation of over two yean. He is engaged in business in Chicago and is said to be an exemplary young man.Charles McCabe, of Cnwfordsville, was is Attica Friday afternoon enroute to his father’s home at Five Points in Warren county. The judge is still quite ill but Is thought not to be iq any im-
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Attica Saturday Press
Attica, Indiana, US
Sat, Mar 11, 1911
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