The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-12
TOR TAKING WHISKEy
A SELMA BARTENDER IS FINED
 HEAVILY.
wIu Appeal to Higher Courts, n He Believed That He Had Right to the Liquor, Intending
 to Pay for IL.

Believed 3That He Had Right to
 the Liquor, Intending
 l. Pay Tor It.
 Advertiser Bureau.
 Selma, Dec II.
 tD Kirkland, q white man. was ar- rested early this morning by Police or fcers Campbell on a charge of iarceay. hay. keeper with the firm of Rosend2ri G Co., for the past three weeks ana M tnls morning about o'clock the omcsIs saw him come out ot the saiooh ,0h;srey The man was carried to police neaa- quarters and In police court this morn ing he was fined $1o0 or ninety oays
 He acknowiedged taking the whis- key, but thought that he had right to do so as he was an employe or the firm and intended to pay for It when he went to work this morning.
 After the fne had been assessed. the young man gave notice that he would appeaI the case to the higher courts. As Kirkland had only come to Selma recently from Atlanta, he had some trouble in making the necessary bond.
 Meeting of City Council.
 The regular monthly meeting of the the eity cSuncil vas wit held rs%son sSnght ATee wisa Clay. Morris. Meyer. Berry Elder and Grimm present.
 Upon motion of Councilman Meyer. Hon. l.. E. Jeffries addressed the meet ing and read an ordinance allowing Q. M Cawthon to use four feet of Lauder dale Street and Hinton Alley. for the purpose of stair ways and light to basement of a. building that he pro Poses to erect for Sfce purposes hg reeent Tn ly ypurchased at an intersection of Lau- derdale and Alabama Streets,
 Hon. H. S. D. Mallory addressed the ttnex nd oc1y yn6 o revenue laws be amended so that law yers would not have to pay hign price for loaning money as regular 1ia ance which provided that attorneys pay license of s25 per annum for the purpose of loaning money to clients instead of s1oo that was assessed chambiiss Keith then read petition from the Dallas Compress Company. which stated that while the company in one was about dismantled and could not be used and that under the new management, which took charge or tne congresses last year. had paid Slo9 for each compress this year and asked that the extra license which had been paid the previous year go on the com ing years tax. Councilman Meyer nov ed that the petition be referred 10 the with instructions to report at the next meeting of the council and that the company be not required to pay the. license until the next meeting Of tho council The motion was carried
 M. L. worrill, superintendent selma Water Co.,, read a petition asking re- duction of the company's license which by recent license law had been raised from s2eo to s4oo The ,,, ps,ition cGncsres csres in the south. Alderman Agee moved that Sthe petition be received and re- ferred to the committee on revenass s
 
 The regular order of bushes was re- sumed but upon motion of Councn- man Grayson the regular order or ous- mess was again suspended for the pur- pose of again taking up an ordinance which had materially been changed so that there would be no Instructions on streets Councilman Berry moved that n1ittee on streets and lights with pow CT to act. There was no second to MT. Berrys motion.
 Mir. Grayson moved that the ordln- ance be adopted as read~ and the ord- finance was adopted.
 Again regular order of business was resumed to be suspended again at re- quest of E.. J. Wilkinson, who desired 10 address the council on the ordinance introduced by Mir. Mallory, The ord finance was then referred to the com mittee on finance and regular business oficers were then read. The7report of the city hospital board for the first month showed that the 1nsIllutloIi ndu taken in something over $400 and that there was on hand in treasury some thing over s260 althougs there were warrants out against that amount.
 The report of the committee on marFAt and market regulations showed that soday at public auction the stalls in the city market had been rented at an increase of SLIPS per year over the preceding year. Heretofore no negroes have had stalls in the city market, but today at the public auction for the stalls two negroes. Milas Martin and w. H. Edwards, were the highest bid ders and each secured stalls The stalls last year brought an average Of s25 per month. but this year they bring an average of $35. One of the stalls was knocked down to W. H. Edwards at S39 per month.
 The bidding for the east end market was very spirited. This market here tofore fas been operated by L. c. Clarke. The bidding between MT Clarke and the negro. Milas Martin. for this market was spirited and was finally rented to the negro at $525b The union slaughter house was again brought mp by Councilman Berry and caused cop~'derabic discussion.
 Licensf- .'use. iouor dealers who had made d. 2Tea tion were then granted and after considerable other business the meeting adjourned.