The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-08
WAS THE LAST DAY
FOR REMONSTRANCES
Twenty.eight OF Them Filed Yesterday
with Clerk Daniels.
MAKES THlRTY-NlNE IN ALL
sends Down n Systematic
and Decidedly Vigorous Kick
Against More Drinking Places Be-
ing Established in That village.
Variety OF Reasons Assigned by
Remonstrants =. Churches Take Il
Hand in the Opposition.

bunu IN the opposiuoh'
In addition to the eleven remon-
strances against liquor license appli-
cations previously filed twenty-eight
more came into Clerk of the Courts
Daniels Office, during yesterday, the
last day in which remonstrances coulo
be received.
Vandling sent down a very formid-
able array of opposition against the
eight new applicants from that village:
John Dunn, Samuel Updyke, n. c. Nc
Ginley, Michael Mahoski, Akym Haver-
am, Simon Nivichuck, Joseph Scheck
and Peter Butler. This is the manner
in which the remonstrances were SUBJ
mitted:
Vandling, March Z.
To the Honorable Judge of the Lacka-
wanna Court of Scranton, IA.
We, the undersigned, members of the
Ladies' Aid society, of Vardling, Pa, re-
spectfully demonstrate against the grant,
ing of any license to sell Intoxicating
drinks to any applicants from Vandling.
The saloons in our village have no
moral right to exist and they should not
have a legal right. We see their course
in miserable homes, in lawlessness, and
i'll the frequent incendiary fires and in
the burning OIL OuE puDuC SCllbOl
Signed. Mrs Ann T. Davis, president;
Mrs. Mcguire, secretary.
TO the Judge of the Lackawanna Court,
Scranton, Pa.
We, the undersigned, citizens of Wand
| ling, Pa, demonstrate against the grant
| ing of any new licenses to applicants
from Vandling for the following reasons:
First-There are already too many sa-
| loon places in this small town.
Second-Lawlessness, Sunday desecra-
| tion and incendiary fire are fearfully on
the increase here, and they are traceaole
| to the saloons.
| Third-We were amazed at the burning
| of our school house building last January.
| 1t is a common rumor that it was done by
the hoodlum element from the saloons.
| John G. Evans, Roger Bailey, George
| Cole.
| TO the Honorable Judges of the Lacka-
| wanna Court, Scranton, Pa.
| We, the undersigned, Christian En-
| deavor society, of Vandling, Pa, remon-
| strate against the granting of licenses to
| new applicants from Nanding to sell in
| toXicating drinks. The lawlessnesS re-
| sulting in quarrels, fights and incendiary
| fires is directly traceabe to the saloons
| already doing business here. 1t is COM
| mon rumor that our public school build
| ing was burned by some of the hoodlums
| produced by the saloons.
George Cole, president; Miss Mary Ev-
| ans secretary.
THE THIRTEENTH WARD.
Thirteenth ward residents made a
| strong objection to the application of
James j. Kelly, who seeks to estab-
lish 4 new hotel at 1872 North Wash
ingtcn avenue. In addition to the
regulation reasons, to the effect that
the place is not needed for the enter
tainment of the travelling public, the
| congregation of the Adams avenue
chapel and free kindergarten put in
an objection on the ground that Kelly's
place is only short block from their
edifice.
Three clergymen, Rev William Ed
gar, Rev. Horace Peckover and Rev. r.
S. Jones, d. D., head list of fifty OBJ
jectors to J. J. Martin being granted
license for his place at 1927 North
Main avenue. They say in addition to
other things that he Is not a fit person
to receive a license, because, in their
belief he has been selling without a
license.
Sundry good citizens of the Second
ward of Olyphant offer opposition to
E. w. Friedman's application for a
hotel license on the ground that he is
an employe of Goodman & Weiss,
wholesalers, and that they are interest
ed in the place for which a license is
asked. They also say that there is no
building at the place designated in
Friedman's petition and no evidences
of one about to be constructed
About 200 men and women of Square
Top and Mill City, Wyoming county,
and Ransom and Newton townships, of
this county petition against the grant
ing of a license to Stephen Wickizer
who would establish a drinking place
in Newton along the main turnpike
They say that his building is insult
, ficient in accommodations for a hotel
and that there are less than a dozen
houses in the neighborhood, where the
hotel is to be located.
: Rev. Emericus o. Haitinger and 3
dozen of the congregation of the Hol,
Ghost Roman Catholic church, Of DIV.
phant, demonstrate against the licens
ing of NJ. Needles place in the Secont
ward of that borough, not far distan-
{ from the church. He asks for a whole,
= saler's license, but this, the remon
strants say, is only a cloak for a tip
= pling house.
, BLAKELY CHURCH OBJECTS,
5 Pastor J. r. Ellis and the trustees
J deacons and congregation of the Blake
ly Baptist church object to ]. E, Ped
rick's contemplated action in putin.
> a drinlSery on the same street as thei
= church and within six hundred fee
f | of it.
Constable Richard Barron heads ,
' list of forty remonstrants, who obiec
! to William Grozwich being granted ;
license for his house in the First war,
= of Dickson City.
The First Presbyterian church. o
e Scranton, through its pastor, Rev
Y James Mcleod, ID. d., filed a remon
, STRANGE against the granting of
license to T.. j. Walsh for a wholesal
house at the corner of Lackawanni
: and Washington avenues. 1t is allege,
, that the place is not needed and tina
, it is within fifty or sixty feet of tn
church property.
Henry c. Ayers application for tn
licensing Of hotel in Ransom meet
with an objection in the shape of al
allegation by James M. Lacoe that on
of Ayers sureties, John Stout, is no
the owner of $4,000 in real estate owe
and above all incumberances, as tn
law requires.