Putnam patriot., 1908-07-31
Watch Hill, R. l., July 9.
City Coar,-Ra-.eii. Judge.

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 The first case taken up by the court, | Monday morning, was the adjourned case of Napoleon Bodo, charged with
 doing secular business on sunday, and
 keeping open shop and exposing pro.
 petiy for sale contrary to law. Bodo was the clerk in Mayhew's $ lunch room
 who Was arrested week ago Sundays Prosecuting Attorney Card stated that 1t had been agreed between him- self and counsel for the defendant that
 ne evidence be put tn, but that a state-
 ment be made of the facts. He said l the place is lunch room, bat that reg
 ular meals were served there. He said
 that goods were sold at retail in a lunch l room and that therefore the place was
 a shop within the meaning of the sta. l tute, but If 1t k a restaurant it is mol Il shop. If a person goes into place
 and has food cooked for him 1t k 1 meal, but If he only buys piece of pie
 l claim that k not a substantial meal. 1 l think that soda or other temperance 1 drinks can be sold with a meal as well 1 as ice cream.
 l Attorney ]. r. Carpenter, who ap- peared for the defendant, then asked his honor to make this ruling:
 l "So long as the serving of meals and 1 order cooked food k the principal
 business of restaurant, kept open for that purpose all of the six week days, 1 the proprietor shall net be considered
 as violating the law in selling, on sun- 1 day, cooked food, milk to be drunk on
 the premises, and fruit, ice cream and 1 bottled temperance drinks. when serv. 1 ed with cooked food as paft of a meal l The Prosecuting Attorney snid he
 didn't think he could find anA fault 1 with that, and he said il il mel with
 his honor's approval, he would with
 draw the complaint.
 MT. Carpenter then said: "fhere can
 be no doubt about the correctness of
 this ruling, your honor, except the sale
 of temperance drinks. 1 don't know
 how your honor feels regarding that.
 l arrived i'll New London the other
 evening on my way home. II Was
 about five o'clock, and wasn,i ia get
 home till eight, so 1 went up the street
 to one of the leading hotels and into | the cafe to get something to eat. There
 was a fleet of War ships in the harbor,
 and there were four officers in the cafe | al ,.f l..t l. nf t.n l perance drink with his food. There l were also several civilians, and they 1 too had temperance drinks. l also 1 went into q working-man' restaurant
 and found such drinks substantiai 1 part of the meal. As rule, coffee is 1 not very good in these places, and lea
 is not dinner or morning drink. It
 is relief lo have bottle of ginger ale
 or sarsaparilla, and there k no more
 harm in il than having glass ef milk;
 nor as much harm as in drinking ice water. Water, too, changes in differ eni places, and ore should be careful
 how he drinks il. think il k better
 for cur restaurants to be allowed to sell I temperance drinks than to drive the
 people to Webster, where they can le- gally get bottle of beer with n meal, or highball If they want it.o
 l His honor said he was willing to 1 agree to this ruling. If the foundation O. any place open on Sunday Is or- der cooked food and regular meals, sl- though regular meals may not be serv- ed to all persons, If regular meals con- | stituted the work of the day. If these two are carried on as the regular order of work, see no objection to including | a piece Of pie or bowl Of crackers and milk, and would add that concession | provided those other two things are always present.
 The Prosecuting Attorney then asked if his honor considered it necessary to cover up goods that were exposed for sale. His honor replied that when ci- gars and cigaretts were kept for sale as in other restaurant, he thought they should be.
 The Attorney said he meant pies ana food. His honor said he thought that was splitting hairs. If ii Is legitimate property, such A food, think he can keep il in any proper place and ai- though exposed 10 view he didn't think II violation of the law. The only
 thing he should object to was filling windows full of the different kinds of food that were for safe But inside he didn't zee why we should 70 % far as to cover Il up so people couldn't see n hat there was io eat. lie thought sanitary conditions demanded rather il be kept inelosed, as spoken ofln thl. instance. in glass case.
 The case sas then withdrawn The case Of Adolph Leclair, charged with drunkenness, breach Of the peace and abusive language, was adjourned b Tuesday morning in order ta have important witnesses summoned