People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1895 — Application for License. [ARTICLE]

Application for License.

Notice is hereby given to the citizens of Walker township in Jasper county, Indiana, that the undersigned William W. Ballinger, a male inhabitant of the state of Indiana and over the age of twenty one years and has been and is of good moral character, not in the habit of becoming intoxicated and a fit person in every respect to be intrusted with the sale of intoxicating liquors and has been a continuous resident of said township for over ninety days last past and that this applicant is the actual owner and proprietor of said business and will be such if license be granted, will apply to the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana at their December term 1895, said term commencing on Monday, December 2nd, 1895, for a license to sell and barter spirituous, vinous, malt and all other intoxicating liquors in a less quantity than a quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing and permitting the same to be drank on the following premises to-wlt:— The precise location of the said premises on which the undersigned desires to sell and barter with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank thereon, is in a one story frame, shingle roof, building, containing two rooms, by outside measurement, Is thirty-six feet long and elghteen-feet wide and situated on lot six (6) in block one (1) in in the Town of Hogan in Jasper county, Indiana and more particularly described as follows;-Commencing ata point eighteen (18) inches west of the south east corner of said lot number six (6) in said block' one (1) and from thence west the distance of eighteen (18) feet and from thence north the distance of thirty-six (36) feet, thence east the distance of eighteen (18) feet, thence south the distance of thirty-six (36) feet to the place of beginning and the room in said building in which he desires to sell is specifically, by outside measurement described as follows: Beginning at a point eighteen inches west of the south east corner of said lot six (6) and thence west eighteen (18) feet, thence north eighteen (18) feet, thence east eighteen (18) feet, thence south eighteen (18) feet to the place of beginning. That the said described room is seperate from any other business of any kind and that no devices for amusement or music of any kind or character is in said room and that there is no partition or par. tit,ions in said room; that the said room is nine feet in bight, contains double glass doors inthe south end of the front, one door in the east side and one door in the north end thereof and contains two windows in the south end thereof that the said room can be securely closed and locked and admission thereof prevented: and that said room is situated upon the ground floor of said building and fronts on Main street of said Town of Hogan, running east and west and is so arranged with glass windows and doors so thatthe whole of said room may be viewed from the said street. The said applicant will also at the time and place apply for said license make a further request for the grant of a privilege to establish, maintain and run a lunch counter and supply those desiring with a full meal of all kinds of edibles in the above described room and in connection with the said sale of liduors and will ask for the privilege of selling tobacco and cigars in connection therewith. Said license will be asked for a period of one year. William W. Ballinger.