Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-07-06
NEW LIQUOR LAW
MAY AFFECT SOME
WATERFOWL PECULIARLY SIT
UATED AS TO RESULTS.
Law Provides for Three Hundred
Feet Limit-SOme Saloons May
Be Forced to Move or Go Out of
Business as ReSult-Grdnt of
Licenses.

The 300-foot liquor license law
which went into effect yesterday
June 30th, may abolish some of the
saloons IN this city, for on that day
no new licenses may be granted to
saloons within 300 feet of any church
or school building, city ordinances to
the contrary Notwithstanding.
The new law also regulates the
granting of liquor licenses, holding
that applications for license must be
in by June Is, now past. Under the
old law applications for license were
sent to the city clerks office and Of
tentimes were not received until the
last minute, when the were O. K. ID
by the proper committee and the IL
censes were rushed through the city
council in a bunch. The intent of
the new law is to provide for spec
ial day for receiving and acting upon
licenses and gives the public an OPP
portunity to see the application and
protest against the granting of any
particular license.
WHAT LAW SAYS.
That portion of the new law which
bears particularly upon the granting
of liquor licenses reads as follows:
''The application for any license
shall be in writing, and shall state
the kind Of license applied for and de-
signate the premises where the liquor
shall be sold. All such licenses shall
remain in force until the first Tues
day in July next after the granting
thereof, unless sooner revoked by the
board or the council granting the
same; they shall be attested by the
town, city or village clerk, and shall
not be delivered until the applicant
shall file with the clerk receipt
showing the payment of the sum re-
quired therefor to the proper treasurer.
and until the filing with the clerk the
bond provided for in section 1549.
KEEP AWAY FROM CHURCHES.
"From and after June Goth, 1905,
anything contained in any city charter
to the contrary notwithstanding. no
such license shall be granted to any
person or persons for sale of any such
liquors in any building, booth or
other place, for which license is not
in force on the Both of June, 1905,
within a distance of three hundred
5000 feet of any public or permanent
ly established parochial school grounds,
said distance to be measured for upon
the streets from the boundary Of such
school grounds. -
To have a saloon removed ajor-
ity of the parents Of the pupils which
are attending the school which is
within 300 feet of the saloon objected
to must sign apaper signed and ack-
nowledged by notary before the
license shall be exempted. This law
does not apply to hotels, restaurants
and drugstores established before Feb.
1, 1905.
GIVEN TWO YEARS TO MOVE
Saloons which are established at the
present time have until July, 1903,
to remove their places Of residence
beyond the 3O0-foot limit. The law
is giving the saloonkeepers plenty of
time so that they cannot later come
into the courts and claim that the law
, works confscation of their property.
Since the passage of the act, however,
no new saloons may be established
within the 30O-foot limit of schools
and churches.