The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-07-07

ing the law.
Roberts Says Nothing Planned.
Eve are not quarreling with the
chief of police for closing up these
Places" declared Chairman Roberts Of
the committee on Monday morning. "He
is acting under the law and that is
exactly what we want him to do. We
had not read the law until copy was
secured on Saturday and the chief is
right. A saloon to operate must have
license and when it gets that, it is
going to have mighty hard time keep
ing the front door open. In little
while there won't be a saloon left in
Kenosha. We are not going to have
any new report to the council this
evening. We are going to read this
new law to the aldermen and then they
can vote just as they please. When
the men who are asking for licenses
read this law, they will most of them
want to withdraw the application
Police Busy Serving Notices.
Reports came in that some saloons
which had been ordered closed violated
these reports were not confirmed in the
reports>ma to the police department.
1t was said on Monday that the police
had started giving formal notice to all
operators of saloons in the city that
every provision of the new law must
be enforced in the city of Kenosha.
They were told that all screens must
be removed and that standing bars
must be taken out. It was said that
an opinion from the attorney for some
liquor dealers association that the law
was invalid but this is not going to
be any cloak so far as the local de-
partment is concerned.
The men have been ordeerd to obey
the law to the letter or to be prepared
to go out of business and stay out. It
was said that some of the men who
have been licensed have already sug-
gested to the license committee a de-
mand for a rebate on the license fee.
There will be no rebates paid by the
council as the committee holds that the
men who asked licenses knew that the
new state law had been passed and was
awaiting the signature of the governor
when they filed their applications.
Ignorance of Law No Excuse.
'These fellows can't come in and
plead ignorance of the law in an effort
to get rebates" declared one of the
members of the license committee. eve
told them that they did not want per-
mits, but they had some fancy idea
that the law was going to be side
tracked by the governor. Now they
have put in their money and they will
have to lose it. The city is not paying
back anything to these fellows"
1t is known that grand jury leaders
have met with the members of the IL
cense committee and that the matter
of the licenses still being held up have
been discussed. It was admitted that
these discussions have led to a deci-
sion on the part of the committee to
recommend no more licenses.
Rauen Guards County.
Sheriff Rauen kept guard over ths
county to see that the order for I'M
licensed saloons to close was kept. The
Pleasant Prairie Town Board came to
the aid of William Keefes and per
mitted the opening of the place at the
corner of Grand View avenue. The
Writ saloon in Somers and Central
Park stayed closed over the holiday
and the Town Board of Somers showed
no willingness to pave the way for
holiday profits. In the western part
of the county the sheriff ordered the
closing Of the Grubel and Martin sa-
looms at Silverlake, but Chairman
Wieks of Salem came to the rescue Of
both of them and signed permits so
that they could keep open. It is pos
sible that these permits will be revok-
ed later on but the sheriff said that
they operated under town board SUI
pervision and with town board conz
sent.
SchOley Busy Today.
John Scholey was busy today and de-
clared that he would seek to close
Central Park for a year under war
rant charging it with being nuisance
and he declared that he would ask war
rants for every place in .the county
which was open without license. He
was just waiting for court commits
sioner to get around to get the pro-
per papers to carry out his plan.