The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-20
PROPOSES GENERAL ENFORCE.
MENT OF sLocUM LAW.
MAYOR DuRLAND ISSUES ORDERS
WINDOW CURTAINS AND SCREENS
MUST BE REMOVED.
HOUR FOR CLOSING, II O'CLOCK
Action Of the Mayor is Consistent With
His Proclamation at the Beginning
Of His Term Of office-Lid Goes on
at once.

Of His Term Of oHice-Lid Goes on
at Once.
Features of the new Norfolk did"
General enforcement of the "Slocum
Law" removal of all window curtains
and screens from saloons, an II o'clock
saloon closing order for week days
and an all day closing order for Sun
day, stringent prohibition Of the sale
of liquor to minors.
Norfolk saloon keepers were notified
Tuesday evening and Wednesday
morning of new "lid," supposedly to
be nailed on local saloon affairs at
once by the city administration. Lo-
of Police Flynn and served with
copy of the following signed notice
from the mayor:
ITO Whom it May Concern: You
are hereby notified to comply with all
of the requirements of the "Slocum
law" as prescribed in Cobbey's COM
piled statutes of Nebraska, 1907, and
of the city ordinances, in conducting
the business of your saloon. We espe-
cially call your attention to the closing
hour, which is now II o'clock, D. M,
and any failure to comply with this
notice, after this date, will be dealt
with according to law. BY (signed)
C. b. Durland, mayor. December II,
1907"
Mayor Durland stated during the
day that the order meant exactly what
it said and that its provisions were to
be enforced Immediately. Screens
were expected to be removed within
the day.
The mayor said that what he was
fighting more than anything else was
the sale of liquor to minors. Sale of
liquor to minors is to be followed up
with vigorous prosecution.
Norfolk saloons have been under
Sunday lid" for some time but have
been remaining open until midnight
during the week. Eleven o'clock is
the new hour set for closing, city or
dinance that has not been generally
observed providing that during the six
months beginning with November !
the Norfolk saloons must close at II
instead of ~.
1t Is the mayors order calling for
the removal of window distractions
that seems to call forth the most OBJ
jections from the saloon men and the
liberal element. 1t is said that the re-
moval Of screens handicaps the deal
ers whose places of business are the
more exposed to public gaze. OF
course the usual arguments are ad-
vanced in favor of screens but it is
said that in Norfolk's case the differ
ence in the arrangement of local sa-
looms will make the anti-screen order
uneven in its operations.
When Mayor Durland stepped into
Office last spring he outlined his saloon
policy in his first address to the coun-
Gil. He said: "There are just few
things that | want to refer to before
we take up the license question.
would like for the saloon men to know
about where | stand before they pay
for their licenses. First, the part of
the Slocum law referring to minors
lettering in and around the saloons
will be adhered to, also gambling in
and out of saloons can not be coun-
tenanced, neither will women of bad
repute be permitted to enter them.
Those saloons having partitions in,
with swinging doors, cutting off the
bar from the street, must be removed
at once, and at the hour of closing
Saturday nights, all screens, curtains
and window decorations are to be re-
moved, so that the bar is in full view
of the street and remain so until the
hour of opening Monday morning. The
law referring to the sale or giving
away of liquor on Sunday will be
strictly looked after, and | want to
say that this will apply to the drug
stores as well as to the saloons, and
right here also | want to say the or
dinances regulating drug stores on the
sale or giving away of liquors will be
enforced"
The mayor does not think that the
Gid" idea as outlined in his initial
address has been carried out by some
of the saloons. AS a result he re-
iterates his first order with the addi-
tional feature of an open bar" unob-
structed by screens.
A number of saloon men removed
their screens as soon as the mayors
order was received. The others, 1t
was said, would comply at once.
The new Gid" does not Danish pool
tables, chairs or beer tables from the
saloons. 1t has been limited, though,
that some such action as this might
be brought before the city council.