Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1905 — STRICK’S TROUBLES NOT ENDED. [ARTICLE]

STRICK’S TROUBLES NOT ENDED.

The County Commissioners have granted a saloon license to George A. Strickfaden to run for one year from Oct. 14th. His present license runs until Dec. 14th and some seven or eight residents of the Ist ward remonstrated against granting the license, on the grounds that his present license was not yet near its expiration. It has already been established as a rule of law that commissioners Can not grant an applicant who already has one, a saloon license that will not begin to run until after one or more intervening terms of their court. But the question whether it is lawful to grant a license to a party already holding a license that runs past such an intervening term, when the holder proposes to surrender; the unexpired license, and to begin business at once under the new one, is a new point in the law; that seems fiever to have been authoritatively decided. Mr. Strickfaden did not state in his application any reason why he thinks a new license would look extra good to him just now, but it is a matter of general knowledge that he and most everybody else, believes that it will require a smaller number of signers to defeat saloons in the first war'd after the coming city election, than are required now. The remonstrafors have filed notice of intention to appeal to the circuit court, and a bond for the costs is being prepared.