Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of thi Country. SHORT DITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towns—-Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. OBJECT TO THE POULTRY LAW Dealers Complain of Provision Requiring Public Record. Lawrenceburg, Indiana, June 25. —The poultry dealers and commission men are up in arms over the working of the new license law, the purpose of which is to stop the stealing of poultry. The dealers say that its provisions Involve too much red tape. The dealers in poultry are required to. obtain licenses from the clerk of the county circuit court. The greatest complaint is of section 3 of the law which reads: “Every person, firm or corporation licensed to deal in poultry shall keep a record in a book open to public inspection and kept for that exclusive purpose, showing the number of fowls of each variety purchased and the weight in pounds of such fowls a the person or persons from whom purchased, with postoffice address and the date of purchase.”