The Press., 1891-11-05
LOCAL TOPICS. Penned and Scissored.
,lInENsr NOTES.

Renned and bcass0red. siS
 LICENsE NOTES.
 :. It is not long since we heard pro- hibitionist speakers lay the responsibility of liquor ceiling upon the republican party, becausesrepublican county commis. sioners issued all licenses. Of course, none of these are now among those who are urging the commissioners to license everybody. ats@H sgAa H
 < License means restriction, mot free rum. Many of the people ewho voted for license are insulted by the claim that they voted ,foropening the flood gates of rum. Many voted for license because of the restrict i've features. asssS e,si
 Rev. J. H. James of Rockville, score tary of the State Temperance Upion,s and one of the most judicious and zealous1 temperance workers of the state, has a strong article in last weeks Journal in favor of limitation of the number of lis censes, in reply to an article in the Tol- land County Leader. We quote few sentences a 4 sS @ ss8 5'Ts 1.-The Leader would make the duties of the county commissioners entirely execu- tive in this matter of granting licences, taking from them the judicial duties which, by the license law, distinctly devolve up- oh them. The county commis- sioners, if they are good and true men, if they are honest and efficient officers of the county, are obliged to do right and justly, in the exercise of their powers un- der the law which they have taken their oath to maintain. They are bound to en- quire into the character of every appli- cant and as to the location of the pro- posed saloons * A very worthy work was undertaken and we'll carried out @ year ago by our young peoples tenn perance society in their getting so many signatures to the petitions to the county commissioners, to limit the number of saloons in Rockville, and the good results shown thereby, in the cutting down of the number of saloons one-half, hope will lead to a similar action by the same so- ciety this year. att3 I k am glad to know that good part of the better class of the state press do not agree with the Leader, in it's editorial of two weeks ago, but are in favor of all of the restraints and restrictions. on the sa- | loon business that can be had under the present license law. The county, com missioners, who may be supposed to know somewhat of this matter, from their per sOnal knowledge of the effects of the sa- looms on our inhabitants and their knowl- edge of the saloon keepers and their busi- ness, have, in a recent convention of the twenty -four commissioners of the several counties of the state, unanimously, or by a very large majority of those present, advocated higher prices Tor licenses, and stronger enforcement of all of the restrict
 i've features of the license law."I 1 Rev. A.J. Quick, formerly pastor oi
 the Congregational church in South Gov.
 entry, was installed as pastor of the told white3 churela4 of Ludlow, Mass. y Octebel 1 21st The council assembled in the af
 ternoo9, examined the candidate ans I recommended him to the church. Tn,
 Springfield Republican has this accoun
 of the evening services The public ex ercises in the evening began with volun Itary. Rev. H. E. Morrow offered the in vocation and Rev. M, F. Dickey read SC
 lections from the scripture. Following the chant by the choir came the instalin, sl prayer by Rev. M. s. Howard, then cam, d a response by the choir, and afterward, the right hand of fellowship, extended b,
 Rev.. s. w. Webb, who, as an old friend l welcomed the pastor to the Connection 4 valley and the .,Hampden conference I Next came the installation hymn, sung tt ! the tune of Federal Street, but, owing tt the illness of Rev. F. B. Makepeace, tn,
 address next upon the program, "Th, lideal pastor," was omitted Rev. B. w ] Lockhart, of Chicopee, followed with
 companion address upon iThe idea church." The ideal church will have
 creed longer and broader than those O to-day, it's truth written not upon paper
 but upon the heart and soul. Singing by ! the choir followed, and then came tn,
 benediction. Rev. 'Abram J. Quick, th'
 new pastor; is a graduate of Union theo logical seminary and of Williams college
 class of '60. He is native of New ter sey, and previous to his work at Soul
 Coventry was settled over churches a Rochester and Hillsboro Bridge, N. H.
 l Springfield Union: Sumner Smith, tn
 republican candidate for representative fl
 the ninth Hampden district, was born a
 Wilmington, Conn. in 1925. He was edu
 cated in the common schools of Stafford xx,oxl, od <,x, %o ,,,,%il ', on ~l