The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1914-07-17
SALOONS OPENED IN
LEWISTON MONDAY

Monday County and city lie
enses were granted to ten applicants
for retail licenses in Lewiston and
eight of the establishments opened
for business during the day. The
other two saloons were opened
Tuesday and package business will
be conducted Philip Weisgerber,
agent for Seattle beer, and Hames
& Wallace at Waha, proprietors of
the hotel and general store.
The county commissioners met at
9 o'clock and but short time was
required to dispose of the applica-
tions for licenses. 1t was found
there were irregularities in the bonds
filed by three of the applicants but
these were adjusted during the day
so that all applicants were ready
for business as far as the licenses
were concerned.
The council met at 10 o'clock to
hear protests on No. 9 improvement
district and as soon as the matter of
licenses had been disposed of before
the commissioners, the applicants a
waited upon the council and were
soon given the necessary authority
to open their establishments for
business.
A protest against the granting of
licenses was filed before the board
of commissioners by Attorneys P. E.
Stookey and E. O. Neill, the instru-
ment covering the same allegationos
contained the petitions for writs of
mandate filed in the district and
supreme courts. The petition al
legged that the commissioners had
never met as a board of election
canvassers to the election returns
the of local option election and
that the returns made by the judge
of said election showed that the
county had been voted dry. 1t was
further alleged that petition Is
now before the supreme court to
be heard on July 18 and in which a
writ of mandate is asked directing
, the board of commissioners to con-
| vene as a board of election canvass
ers and find the results of the elec-
tion forces in favor of the dry for
, ces. 1t is further cited that the coun-
o ty is now dry and that the commits
o sioners violate their oath Of office
6 if a saloon license is issued.
Those to whom the retail licenses
!. were issuhed are: Boise Brothers
a Charles Parker, Baker & Elledge
q James B. McGrane for Bollinger
+ and Raymond hotels, A. E. Smurth
4 waite for Hotel De France, George
Smurthwaite Cole & Lycett, Peter
p Barnhodt and George B. Curtiss
4 Monday afforded the first oppor
4 tunity in four years 10 secur light
4 mate drink in Lewiston and whel
s the saloons were opened, a rusl
! developed that continued Throughout
o the afternoon and evening. Ths
f regulations requiring open exposur
o of the fronts of the saloons did no
4 seem to exrt any retarding influence
on the crowds. That Monday af
forded the first opportunity in fou
years to get drink does not sug
gest the city has been total alb
n stainers during that period, for it
:. conservatively estimated that despit
n the local option enactment, with it
II search and seizure provisions no les
r, than $4,000 year has been sen
,r outside yearly for liquors consumes
here. By the terms of the loca
option law also, it was crime t
lie give person a drink, even in one
he own household, 50 perhaps in tn
If rush there were many who fe
m happy condition had been remove
+. that had caused them to be offens
IS ers against the law-at least jus
a little bit.-Tuesday's Tribune
NJ n Thomas WAS visitor