The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-04
CULLMAN WANTS
 FOUR NEW BILLS All Deal With the Liquor
 Question WANTS A DISPENSARY Mrs. r. E. st. John Seriously III. and Will Go to Battle Creek for Treat ment-Reason of St. Johns
 Withdrawal
 

Cullman, January 3.-tSpecial)-- Cullman county will stand unique at the coming session of the legislature in the matter of liquor legislation. No tice is being advertised in the local papers this week that the people will apply to the legislature through their representative, A. A. Griffith. for the passage of four different bills along the lines of the liquor question. These bills have been prepared in typewrit ten form and the first of which, in part. is as follows:
 "To authorize bona fide residents of Cullman county, who are of good moral character to engage in the business of selling lager beer and wines in in corporated towns and cities in Gull
 man county and providing the license tax on such business; to authorize anl regulate the granting of license there for and the revoking of the license and providing for the penalties for the violations of the act and the form of the indictment therefor
 The second is a bill "to regulate the sale of lager beer and wine by bona ide literary and social clubs and clubs conducted by fraternal and charitable organizations, to provide for the is- suance of license for same and the revocation of the license, prescribing, the penalties for the violations of the
 same and the form of indictment there for
 Section 3 provides that before such | 0 club shall be entitled to engage | in the sale of such beers and wines | 1t shall through its president or sec retary file with the probate judge of | Cullman county petition in writing setting forth the name and the location | of the club, the amount of property owned by it, if any, together with a
 complete list of the names and resi-
 dences of its officers and members, and
 the location of it's club house. This petition shall be duly verified by the president of the club by affidavit that
 the facts stated therein are true. Under the provisions of this bill DO
 license shall be issued to any club not located in an incorporated town | of less than TOO population and each club shall consist of not less than 50 | bona fide members. After the license l of a club of this nature shall have been revoked for any cause it shall be | unlawful to secure another license to | engage in business again for a period of two years. The license tax provided for in the bill shall be $25 per an-
 mum, payable on the first day of Jan
 uary of each year in advance. Wants Dispensary
 | Another of the important measures
 which will be introduced and asked to
 be passed and become law is to au- | thorize the city of Cullman to main 1 tain and operate a dispensary within l'the corporate. limits of the town, for l the sale of spirituous and malt liquors, | the same to be handled and sold in
 original packages of not less than one pint, providing for the appropriation by the city of money for such purpose and regulating the conduct of such
 business and prohibits the drirIling of liquors on the premises of the dispen- sary. and prohibits the sale of in tox- icating liquors to minors to per sons known to be addicted to intem-
 perate habits. Provides for the audit ing of the accounts of the business by the municipal authorities including the compensation of the dispenser. who shall be employees of the city. and pro- vides that the proceeds of the business shall be used in the maintenance of the streets and public roads of the county.
 The third special bill is one to au- thorize the manufacture ana sale of pure wines made from grapes and oth- CT berries. The bill provides that wines shall be made only from grapes and berries grown in Cullman county and that such wines shall not be drank nn nr n a Ia are made. That such wines shall not be sold in less quantities than one quart and every package must be labeled with it's contents and the name of the maker.
 Under the present law the German people have no way of dispensing of the large crop of grapes grown here every year and it is for their special benefit that the la.:t bill will be in- | troduced and asked to be made . | law.
 Mrs. st. John Very HI | Col. r. F. St. John will leave next week with Mrs. St. John for Battle Creek. Mich where the latter will enter 1 the famous Battle Creek sanitarium for treatment. Mrs. St. John has been con | fined to her bed for the past several | weeks. and has been unable to secure relief in Cullman for serious nervous | trouble MT. St John was advised by attending physicians to take her to a place where absolute rest could be had, and Battle Creek. Mich. was chosen. | The serious illness of Mrs. St. John | is attributed as the reason for MT St. | Johns withdrawal from the contest of | the election of James B. Sloan for tho | office of state senator from the Third I district.
 
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