Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1915 — License to Sell Mince Pie. [ARTICLE]

License to Sell Mince Pie.

■Bill" Hicks, caterer, has such a fear of the law that he got out a Federal liquor license so he could sell mince pie at Bill Hicks’ place. Thirty-third street and Troost avenue. “Why,” said "Bill” Hicks, aggrievedly, on the witness stand in the South Side Court this morning; ‘why, would you believe it, you need a liquor license to sell anything with one half of one per cent of alcohol in it. Why, you need a license to sell mince pie.” But it wasn’t for selling mince pie that “Bill” Hicks was in Court. It was for selling beer in teapots,nice little brown teapots, dainty litle teapots, teapots made for holding tea. “But some of my customers asked for beer and I accommodated ’em,” sa,d Hicks. “It wasn’t the business of the other folks if I sold these people beer, now; was it? So I just Put it' in teapots and nobody was wiser.” But they were wiser. At any rate, Lieutenant Dennis Whalen ano four policemen raided “Bill” Hicks’ South Side case Sunday night as 15 couples dallied over the teapots that didn’t hold tea, but beer. And they took possession of the teapots and the beer and of Bill Hicks himself, too.—Kansas City Star. .