The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
A MIDNIGHT SESSION.
Rigid Bar>room and Hog Law" Ordi
nances Passed

The Winston Aldermen were in
session until nearly II o'clock Monday
night. Mayor Gray presided. Alder
man Clement was the only absent
member. Considerable business was
transacted.
A rigid ordinance about the keeping
of bar-rooms has raised a howl among
the saloon keepers. The ordinance
explains itself:
All persons licensed to retail spiritu-
Gus or malt liquors shall have posted
in conspicuous places about their
place of business: "No miners allowed
in here" The same shall be consider
ed sufficient notice. No license to re-
tail malt or SpirituOuS liquors at any
place which does not front a public
street or does not have the main en-
trance there from d public street, and
wherever such license shall be granted
at place having any door or entrance
thereto on or near an alley way, such
door or entrance on or near such alley
way shall be kept closed and shall not
be used. Any saloon keeper, or clerk,
or employer of any salOOn-keeper
allowing persons to enter such place
of business by such door or entrance
on or near such alley way shall be
fined S25 for each offence.
No place for which license to re-
tail malt or spirituous liquors is
granite d shall be kept open later than
10 p. III. or opened earlier than a. m.
Any person violating this ordinance
shall be fined $50 for each offence.
No person to whom a license to re-
tail liquors is granted shall permit
drunken or disorderly persons to
assemble or loiter therein. Any per-
son violating this Ordidance shall pay
d fine Of S25 for each offence.
No Place for which license to re-
tail liquors shall be issued, shall nave
any screen, blind or painted glass or
other distractions of the view through
the doors and windows thereof. Any
persons violating the provision of this
ordinance shall be fined so for each
offence.
1t shall be unlawful for any minor
to go into any place where spurious or
malt liquors are kept for retail, unless
by WRIT n consent of parent or guar
dian, and any minor violating the
provisions of this ordinance shall on
conviction before the mayor pay fine
of $40.
Any person under u years of age
who shall under false representation
as to age buy or allow to be bought for
him, other than by parents Orguardian
any liquors, malt or Spirituous in any
retail saloon in this city, shall on con-
vlcJl0n before the mayor pay fine
of SO.
HOG ORDINANCE.
The Board also adopted rigid a ''hOg''
ordinance. The line heretofore
adopted to run east from Eighth
street was changed to Ninth street.
The ordinance is quite sengthy.
Every pen must have close plank
floor, one foot above the ground: pen
must be kept thoroughly cleansed by
owner and must be not less than 10
feet from owners residence or nearer
the dwelling of any neighbor than the
proprietor of said pen: no hog can be
kept on a lot with less than 20 feet
frontage: no more than one hog can be
kept on lot with from 20 to 30 feet
front: only Two hogs on lot from b to
60 feet front; 3 hogs on lot 60 to So feet
front; hogs on lot s. to 40 feet
front; no more than & hogs can be
kept on any lot. No pen can be built
within ten feet of any alley, street or
side walk. The Secretary was re-
| quested to have 250 copies of the ordi-
nance printed and distributed at once