Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-19
NO QUARTER, Is CRY
OF NO-LTCENSE COURT
Montgomery County Temper
ance Forces Spring Many
Surprises in Court.

NORKlSTOWN, Pa, March ia sem
satlon was sprung in License Court to-
day, when counsel for the No-license
League fled remonstrance against the
Colonial Inn, of Bridgeport, the applicant
for which is John Dillon, n member of
bridgeport Town Council and Republican
leader of the borough. Dillon has con-
Quoted the hotel for years ana is prom
inent in Bridgeport politics. Up to this
time the Colonial Inn has escaped re-
monstrance. The one filed was specific
1t declared Dillon has sold liquor to per
sons of known Incorporate habits, nam
ing them, and alleges that he bought
empty whisky bottles from a man of
known Incorporate habits.
There was another furore in court
when a witness for John Wood, appli-
cant for the Eagle Hotel. of Pennsburg,
said that a witness who testified yester-
day had told him afterward that the Rev.
o. s. Krlebel. Dean of Perkiomen Semi
nary, had paid him $12 to come to Norris
town and testify for the dry forces
DIR. Kriebel, on the stand, denied abso-
lutely that he paid this sum to the wit
ness, but admitted that he paid him $l.50
for his expenses and $1.50 for the ex-
penses of his son. Dr. Kriebel testified
also that Jerome Graft and Daniel Hirsch,
were both men of known temperate habits
and both men had obtained liquor at the
Eagle Hotel.
Lawyers, doctors and businessmen of
Pennsburg were unanimous in their alle-
cations that the two men drank to excess.
The License Court slate has been shat
tered, owing to the strenuous fight in op
position to the Eagle Hotel and the Palm
Station Hotel
Attorney Wanger contended that, under
the evidence, the Eagle Hotel had not
been properly conducted. When question:
ed by the court why the other two
hotels in Pennsburg were not opposed,
Mr.. Wanger replied that the Eagle was
the one for which there was the least
necessity.
A score of witnesses We're called by both
sides. Some of the best evidence obtained
by the dry forces was from witnesses
called by the applicant
In arguing in favor of the hotel, counsel
said that the remonstrance against Wood
was signed by less than 80 persons, nearly
half of whom were women, while the two
petitions for license pore the signatures
of 222 persons, out of voting population
of n few over 300.
was charged in the remonstrance with
being a person of known Incorporate
habits, admitted on the stand that he
took a glass of beer once in a while"
He denied using foul and violent Ian
lguage In the barroom and telling Smut
ty'' stories.
PRODUCES REGISTER.
He produced his register, and upon eX-
animation it was found IA guests had reg
istered during May, June, July and Au-
gust of last year. Wood admitted that
he had more guests, but said he had not
been careful to have them register. He
could not tell how many of the IA regis
tered stayed over night. In two years he
served several funeral parties He denied
allowing young boys to congregate IN
the barroom as had been testined TO-
When asked why the boys come into his
barroom at ALL Wood said that he kept
candy there.
Mrs. Wood testified that she only tended
bar when her husband was called away
She denied using foul
language in the barroom, but said she
did use 1t on one occasion, when she
heard men in the barroom teaching her
girl profanity. When asked
by the court why the child was permitted
in the barroom, she said that she could
not keep her out; that the girl insisted
on being with her father
A bouquet of white carnations was on
the desk of Attorney Wanger, of the dry
forces, when court convened, with card
bearing this inscription:
For George Wanger, from the w Z. T.
u, in appreciation of your efforts in the
no-license cause"
This afternoon viii be devoted to the
hearing of Perkiomen Heights Hotel, In
Upper Hanover. a case left over from
Yesterday. The hearing~of the Wisconsin
Hotel, in Lower Merton, will be had
later.