Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1905 — LIQUOR LAW POINT MADE. [ARTICLE]

LIQUOR LAW POINT MADE.

Sales of Less Than Five Gallons Come Under Nicholson Law. The Appellate Court decided a few days ago that the keeper of a barrel-house, or other establishment where intoxicating liquor is sold in less quantities than five gallons, is subject to all the provisions of the Nicholson law, being bound to obtain a county license and to exclude all devices for amusement, all partitions, and all other kinds of business from the room where liquor is sold. Indictments against Patrick Kiley and William Cahill, of Grant county, by the Circuit Court, were held sufficient, although they alleged that Kiley and Cahill were licensed to sell "in less quantity than five gallons at a time,” instead of less than a quart. The court says that under the Nicholson law amendments to the liquor law "any liquor license issued under the law of this State would confer * * * authority to sell in less quantities than five gallons at a time, though no quantity was specified in the license. A license to sell in any less quantity than five gallons at a time would authorize a sale ,in less quantity than a quart.”