The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-01-25
Dry Vote in 1914 Stands Until
Repealed at Regular City
Election, Brown Says
BANK BUYS SEWER BONDS
Vote Possible Then Only if 10
Per Cent of Voters Sign
Petition to Council

intoxicating liquor cannot be sold
legally in Redwood Falls before the
next general city election in January
1885 and then only after the matter
has been submitted to vote, on petit
ton of ten per cent of the voters,
and approved, according to an opin-
ion given to the city council at a spe-
cial meeting Monday evening by Leon
H. Brown, city attorney.
Mr.. Brown summed up his findings
in three paragraphs:
81. No license for the sale Of intox-
icating liquor can be granted by the
Common Council Of the City of Red
wood Falls until such question has
been submitted to the electorate of
the City of Redwood Falls.
"2. The question of license can not
be submitted on petition to the voters
of the City of Redwood Falls until
the next general city election. Tin
January 1851
"3. The question Of license can be
submitted to the voters of the city Of
Redwood Falls at the next general
city election on petition Of ten per
cent of the legal voters of the City
of Redwood Falls, such percentage to
be determined by the number of votes
cast at the last city election"
The opinion is based on paragraphs
from the state liquor law passed by
the last session of the legislature and
the last vote ON the subject in Red
wood Falls at the general election
January 6, 1914 when 271 votes were
cast against license and 1913 for.
In section seven Of the new law,
the city attorney cites; mo license
shall be issued for premises or places
in which the sale or use thereof has
been prohibited by Mason's Mime
sofa statutes 1927, sections 3238-3 to
5238-21 inclusive; provided, however,
that laws 1923, chapter 139, section
6, the same being Mason's Minnesota
statutes 1927, section 1896, is hereby
repealed"
Mr.. Brown quotes from section
3238-3 referred to which says in part:
"Places where sale is forbidden-The
sale Of such liquor in any quantity
whatever is also forbidden in the fol-
lowing places: l. In any town or
municipality in which majority of
votes at the last election at which the
question of license was voted upon
shall not have been in favor of Ii
cense-."
In describing the method by which
Redwood Falls may next year vote on
the question, Mr.. Brown cites Sec
ton II Of the new law as follows:
"The clerk or recorder of any city
of the fourth class, whether the same
is Incorporated under a special law
or the general laws or under a home
rule charter, on petition of ten per
cent, and in no case less than twen-
ty-five of the legal voters, such per-
centage to be determined by the num-
Der of votes cast at the last city
election, filed with him at least 20
days before the regular city election,
will give notice at the same time
and in the same manner as the notice
of such city election that the question
of granting license in such city for
the sale of Intoxicating liquor will be
submitted for determination at such
election"
The definition of intoxicating IL
quor in the state liquor law is as fol-
lows:
"The terms Intoxicating liquor
and liquor whenever used in this
Act, shall mean and include ethyl al
cohol and include distilled, ferme1t-
ed, spirituous, vinous and malt bev-
erages containing in excess of 80
per cent of alcohol by weight"
: The $4,000 sewage bonds sold at
the meeting were purchased by the
Citizens State bank at four and one
fourth per cent interest. L. R. Ewart,
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