The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-07-02
All But Four Applicants Are
Granted Saloon Licenses by
the City Council
T0ExTEND SALOON DISTRICTS
Committee on License Declines to Make
a Report and Matter is Taken Up
by the Committee of the Whole
Other Council Business

/ Rd1OOu ulCu LII GuC ClUy WIN hdNC OOOh
! on the anxious seat for fear the City
Council might take some radical action
in regard to the granting of licenses,
will rest little easier this morning as
at the meeting of the Council Monday
night all of the applicants seeking Ii
censes with the exception of four, were
given the right to continue in business.
The four included the two saloons on
Rowland avenue, south of Market street
one operated by Anton Pecnic and an
application from Joseph Weddlestedt
to open saloon on West Grand avenue.
The two licenses for the Rowland
avenue places are held up pending the
admission Of the territory into the sa-
at the next meeting of the Council if
there is no protest from the property
owners within the prescribed territory.
The Pecnic license was withdrawn
because the applicant was not citizen
of the United States and John Zens
made an application for a license in
the same place which it is supposed
will be turned over to Pecnic when he
gets his second papers The Weddle-
stedt application is for a place outside
the saloon district and which has not
been used as a saloon and it is not
thought possible that this license can
be granted by the Council. The grant
ing of the licenses came after little
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License Committee stated that the com
mittee was not ready to report on Ii
| censes and insinuated that the work Of
the committee had been taken up by
other members of the Council. It was
noticed that the alderman did not like
the way in which the license matter
had gone and he seemed little hot
under the collar when he declared that
| the committee would make no report,
but would leave the matter with the
Council as a whole. All other bust
ness was disposed of before the Council
took up the license question again and
then the four applications which had
been objected to were eliminated and
/ WV OO1ASA OPRAAScAUAOAO SAcbhOOO'
| The committee on bonds did not
make report on the bonds more than
to show to the Council that % bonds
| had been signed by one man whose
property on the assessment roll of the
city amounted to $4,000 and that an
other who had signed twenty bonds had
property valued at $4,000. A portion
of both of the men s property was
exempt under the homestead laws of
the state. The committee stated that
under the circumstances these property
owners could not justify for the amount
demanded on all the bonds signed and
| the committee referred the whole mat
ter to the Council. After a short dis
cussion it was decided to accept all of
the bonds for this year, but the city
attorney was directed to draft a reso-
luton for the government of the com
mittee in the future. This resolution
will make it impossible for any bonds
men to sign more bonds than the value
of their property as returned for as
sessment
There was great lot of routine bust
ness taken up by the Council, but the
main interest of the evening started
and finished when the saloon licenses
had been granted. For a time it
looked as if the city might be without
saloons for a year, but the matter was
finally arranged without serious trou-
BILE. The granting of licenses for the
saloons called into question depends
entirely on the attitude of the property
owners in the territory adjacent to
these places.
b. V. Piper was granted license as
a cement sidewalk layer with authority
to begin work as soon as he filed bis
bond. A petition was presented to the
Council asking for the right to move
the old Peter Jacobs building at the
corner Of Church and Market street to
a site on York street. AS the site is
within the fire districts the petition was
referred to the committee on street and
alleys with the chief Of the fire depart
ment added with power to act. Proper
ty owners on Balm avenue asked that
the city erect breakwater at the east
end of this avenue and the matter was
referred to the street assessment COM
mittee. Fred Blackman of the town
Of Bristol filed a claim Of $25 against
the city for injuries received by a
horse which fell at the corner Of Min
and Park streets and the claim was
referred to the committee on claims.
M. Buchanan asked the Council to
vacate an alley leading from Swans
Court on the north side of the city. The
matter was referred to the committee
on streets and alleys with order to re-
lport at the next meeting of the Council.
Fred Larsen asked for permission to
change the location of a catch basin
at the corner of Prairie avenue and
Pleasant street and the matter was re-
ferred to the committee on sewers with
power to act. The curb on South Chi
cago street was accepted and the clerk
was instructed to issue bonds for the