The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-07-16
at Sycamore. A man In Worthwhile the brew.
ar NEAR Snmnnauk named Richard Renflln0er

al sycamore. man In NortnVllIe, the OTcW
er, near Somonauk, named Richard Rentlinger
applied TO the village trustee Of Somonauk tor
u license to keep dram shop under their vii.
lage ordinances Two other men had licenses,
anu licenses under the ordinance had been
granted for years on complying with certain
conditions The ordinance provided that the
"president Of the board of trustees and the
village clerk may, with the consent of the
board OF trustees, grant licenses 10 any suitable
person." etc. Mr.. Rentlinger presented his
bond, which was accepted by the board and
approved 10y the president and clerk. Some
members OF the board of trustees had some
misglvings regarding the applicants suit
ableness." and the matter Of giving him a
license was laid over until the next regular
neetlng OF the board. Z. w. Lewis, Esq,
who i. president of the board, was in favor of
granting license to sentlinger at once, and
called u special meeting of the board to take
immediate action upon the question At this
meeting of h. board, amolion to grant license
to the gentlemen referred to resulted in getting
but three votes out of six, and hence was lost,
and by that vote Rentinger was refused
license. His attorneys, Messrs. Hopkins and
| Aldrich, OF Aurora, then filed a petition for
mandamus IN the circuit court at Sycamore,
to compel the board of trustees to give their
consent to tie president and clerk to issue and
10 compel those officers to issue such license.
J. Ivor Montgomery appeared for the village,
and demurrcd to the petition In arguing the
demurrer, Mr.. Montgomery took the ground
that the board of trustees had q discretionary
power IN the matter, and had exercised that
discretion that il was their duty TO judge
whether the applicant was suitable" person,
and they had passed on that question ana 1t
was not renewable by the court; that all the
court could do in a given case would be to re-
qulrc the board 10 act, 10 cote up0n question
Of granting license, and that it could not say
h0tr the trustees must vote. Other points were
raised in the case, but it was decided by the
court upon the question referred to. HIS hon
or, Judge Upton, refused the mandamus, sus
tainlng the demurrer. Judge kellum also
concurred IN the decision. IL is SAID an APP
peal will be taken To the appellate court, in
order to let that court guess at it," This was
the first time the question ever was decided in
this county, and Is one of considerable impor.
lance TO the authorities Of the several towns.
A young man living here got vexed at
brakeman on the eastern bound freight train
the other evening and threw stones INTO the
car and through the windows IN order that he
might be avenged. The railroad company
will now sec to it that this youngster gets pun
ishcd under the law for so rash an act.
\ twelve year old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Rev. Henry f. billiard died, July |, OF con
sumption
A, A. Marcy and family and Vim. a. Dick.
son, of this city, have gone to Geneva Lake to
spend few weeks with two wagon loads OF
tents, boats, etc. When Marcy gets his usual
"samp" completed we are going up to see HIM
Sylvanus l.. Scheidecker, of Malta, was IN
town last week lie sold his matched team Of
thoroughbred trotters to Sam Lett, of North
willie for 5000 Sam now has two teams of
of the bcst-mated trotters TO be found IN tour
COUNTIES.
In my former letter | forgot to state that the
widow of the late Isaac Potter was in this city
many of her early friends and &C
quaintances aud relatives. Mrs Potter is the
Of lawyer Druilt of your city, |
and is a most sstimable lady.
Arrangements are being perfected to have q
grand picnic September 10, at our air grounds,
by the Crawford county people and friends.
Elk UNo. !!