Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-06-18
License Court.

ne INST lCNIlSt CouAt AtAA -
Judge Galbreath, met Tuesday morn
ing. Court convened at nine o'clock
and at that hour the room and corridors
were filled by the fifty or sixty appli-
cants, their friends and witnesses, re
monstrants, wholesale liquor agents
looking for a chance to sell a bill OF
goods to a new customer, and spectators.
On account of Attorney w. {.
Thompson having 10 leave town Tues
day evening he was allowed to present
his applications first and led off with c.
H. and H. B. Kemp of the Lowry. The
case was quickly desposed of.
The application of J. \. Klein of the
Willard came next and was quickly
disposed.
Capt. Herman Liebold applied for the
Hotel Arlington.
On the application of 3. J. Forquer OF
the Forduer House, Chicora, S Frankie,
3. Rumbaugh and others appeared for
the applicant The court asked II
laborers on the new railroad had not
raised disturbances in the bar room
Charles Miller of Evans City came
next. Henry lift, Philip Nicholas and
others testifying for him.
The application of ]. c. Martin OF
the Commercial House, Mars, was then
presented and a merry time followed.
J. d. Marshall, for the remonstrants,
questioned Martin closely. Martin de-
MED that be had ever abused Mrs
Westerman when she accused him OF
selling to Charles Barr, that he had not
sold to several men who were mention
ed as being Of known incorporate
habits and 10 minors, and that he had
given one witness against him money TO
leave the country. Geo. Logan, Gil
bert Hooks, Sam Redic and w. Allen
appeared for Martin Hooks admitted
there had been fuss in Martin bar
room because, he said. VIM. Gilllland
had came home from Butler, gone in
there to raise a row with him, and after
getting couple more drinks accused
Hooks of voting for Mr.. Galbreath
because he had been promised whole.
sale license, Hooks called him liar and
then there was trouble, but he denied
that they had thrown ont the Constable.
Another witness was James McElroy OF
Ireland, who said he was perfect bar
keeper, had eight years experience and
ran the best bar ever. He had lett
Martins employ a week before court.
The remonstrance against Martin stated
that his house was unfit for licensed
house. that a licensed house was IN
necessary, that he had sold to minors
and men of known Incorporate habits
and was Incorporate himself Mrs.
Buzard testified that her son aged Is
wears had gotten liquor at Martins
Mrs. Westerman said she had nad
Martin notified not to sell liquor 70
Charles Barr, that she had followed
Barr into Martins and saw him drln x
ing She upbraided Martin and he said
| Your damned old liar, get out OF
nv house, you damned old heifer.
Martin denied this Judge Galbreath
said a man who used such language to
woman was unfit to hold license. Ben
Fell, dyed 10 years, testified he bought
beer at Martins. Rev. G. |. Wilson
testified that VIM. Crozier. on the day
his wife died, had gotten drunk, came
home and chased the help out Of the
house, tore loose the hair of the corpse
and went to sleep lying under the bier
on which his wife's dead body lay. He
had gotten liquor from Martin. VIM
Gilliland testified Martin had sold to a
minor. At this point the application was
withdrawn.
Geo. Haworth applied for license in
the Hotel Bowman, South Side, and
was asked the usual questions.
A remonstrance was presented by L.
NJ. Baker and j. d. Marshall against
the application of Jos. II. Harvey for
license in the Hotel Waverly. on ac-
count of its being opposite the Mexican
ST. school. Judge Galbreath said it had
been the rule of the Court for ten years
past not to grant license there on that
account, and he saw no good reason fo1
making a new precedent.
Tuesday afternoon the application OF
Fisher q Kearns for a wholesale licens
ON E. Jefferson St was first taken up.
The application of S. NJ Wilson for a
tavern license at Renfrew was heard.
He has two or three transient boarders
daily and three or four regulars. There
was large remonstrance and there was
plenty of testimony that license was
aud was not necessary in Renfrew.
The application of David Stewart for
tavern license for the hotel he CON
ducts in the theatre building at Mars
was next heard. Several witnesses tes-
| titled the house was necessary A re-
| monstance was presented stating that
Stewart was an unfit man to hold
| license and that his house was unfit for
hotel purposes, being the lower part Of
| the theatre Rev Wilson stated
they had taken Ernest Gamble, the
basso, there and he had refused to stay,
The application of Ralph Gregg for
| the Park Hotel license was heard Thurs
day morning, and he had easy sailing.
The Court suggested that some i'm
provements were needed in the build
ing if granted license.
The application of Geo FL Kuriz for
tavern license at Petrolia met with a
remonstrance. A numbsr of men testi-
| fled to the fitness of the applicant and
to the necessity of the hotel Witnesses
against testified to the congregating of
crowds in front of the hotel, and also TO
profane and vile language being used iu
the vicinity; also that Kurtz sold 10
men of intemperate habits, that travel
ing men complained of the service.
The applications of VIM. Lackev of
the Dolan House, Adolphus Hoch of the
Central, Joseph Darling. wholesale, and
j. W. Loebig of Butler. wholesale, all
for licenses in Chicora were then heard
There were no remonstrances.
Mrs. Otillie Raabe and Snider Bros.
of Saxonburg also had plain sailing.
Wednesday cases of w. FL. and j. NJ.
Snider, Saxonburg; VIM. Wahl. Evans
City; Butler Brewing Co. l. N. .Zeigler,
Harmony; Saml Beam, Harmony; Franz
Luck, Zelienople; Henry W. Stokey,
Zelienople; p. c. Frederick, distiller,
Zelienople; Simon Nixon. Central Hotel,
D. F. McCrea, Butler House; G. II. Gels,
Hotel Lyndora; Earl d. Clinton Of the
Standard; u. s. c. Geiger of the U. S.
Hotel; W. w McQuistion, West and
Water SITS; Joseph Nanny and Jaeklitch,
Playground ave, hotel; G.. A. Lewis,
Nixon Home; Chas Hindman and q. j.
Mangold, wholesale at Jefferson and
Elm SITS; f. w. Chatten, wholesale;
Playground ave; and H. b. Arble,
wholesale, Harding House, Pierce ave.
were heard.
The Park Hotel difficulty between
owner, w. G. Thompson and Ralph
Gregg, on one part and Theodore
Humes ON the other WAS settled. Mr..
Humes, who had been warned out by
Thompson and whose lease expires June
30. Withdrawing his application.
Remonstrances were filed against all
the wholesale applicants and against
Lewis because his house is next door to
the Methodist church.
The hearings were continued this
morning and will probably be completed