New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-27
CLUBS MUST PAY 1 LICENSE.
Supreme Court Puts Social Organi-
cations Selling Liquor in Same
Category with Saloons.
Not Few of Them Will be Put
out of Business as Result
of the Decision.

BY a vote of three to two the Mime
sofa supreme court has decided that
social clubs in this state, if they wish
to dispense liquors, must take out re-
tail license under the same restrictions
as are required from saloons.
Heretofore clubs of this character,
dispensing liquor only to members,
have been asked to pay only the Ii
cense required by the federal govern
ment; but in 1907 certain parties in
Mankato raised a question as to the
justice of the exemption and an appeal
was made to Attorney General Young.
That official decided that club IL
cense was necessary.
Then the Minnesota club of St. Paul,
the most prominent in the state, asked
to have test case brought and it was
tried in Ramsey county on stipulated
facts. Judge Kelly, the trial judge,
held directly opposite to the views OF
the attorney general, but on an ap-
peal brought by the latter the supreme
court reverses the lower court. The
vote, however, is divided on the ques-
ton, Start, Lewis and Brown holding
for license and Elliot and Jaggard
dissenting.
In nearly every city of any conse-
quence IN the state there is club that
will be affected by the decision. New
Ulm has one, St. Peter has one, Man
kato has one and st. Paul ana Mime
apolis have several. Some of them
will not be able to pay the license re-
quired by the communities in which
they exist, while others, like the Min
neapolis club, the Roosevelt club, the
Town and Country club and the Mini
kahda club, will be put out of existence
entirely because located in districts
where liquor selling places Of any
kind are strictly prohibited.
Following the announcement Of the
: decision bill was introduced in the
legislature to nullify its effect.
A state farmers institute will be
f held at CORTLAND on the 18th of Feb
ruary.
5 Ludwig Fuchs and son of Buffalo
} Lake visited with friends in this cit.
the latter part of the week.
Schell's hall and the Offices of VIM
: Pfaender Jr. are being repainted ant
l decorated this week by Schuster Bros
The Pioneer Drug Co. held its an
nual meeting Monday evening and re
{ elected it's old board of directors a
we'll as all of the old officers.
Y County Auditor Vogel is preparin!
t new map Of Brown County whic]
e. will be ready for circulation in shor
i while. Orders for the publication
e which will be correct in every detail
: can be left with the auditor now ~
The following are the newly -eiecte'
: officers of the Young Ladies Sodalit
9 of the Catholic church: President
e Carrie Eibner; vice president, Mar
!, garet BRANDED; secretary, Clara Ko1
n bel: treasurer, Bertha Dietz; marshals
n Ida Henle and Martha Haubrich.
4 One Of the claim agents Of the Chi
cago & Northwestern road was in tn
city Thursday Investigating the caus
es which led up to the accident whic
resulted in the death of Louis Pix.
" AS result of his visit both Enginee
8 Collins and Fireman Lippert hav
been temporarily relieved from th
- company's service.
/ The ladies of the Congregations
o. church will give an 'old folks cor
cert" at the church next Wednesda
evening, which promises to be one {
: the most novel and interesting entel