Bloomington Telephone, Volume 7, Number 32, Bloomington, Monroe County, 8 December 1883 — Page 1

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Law and Order, THE DEMAND OF THE GOOD PEOPLE OF BLOOMING-TON.

MASS MEETING OF CITIZENS. Resolutions Adopted and Speeches M4e Demanding the Enforcement of Laws and Opposing License. Last Monday night at th court house, the larerest maw meetincr of citizens assembled that has been held in Hloomington tmce the death of President Garfield, to protest against the granting of liquor license to three applicants then pending before the. Board of Commissioners, in ac cordance to the following "eall," signed by over sixty of our best citizens, JMrn best explains the object of the meetingA CALL fK A PUBLIC MEKnXG, TO ALL TIZENS WHO OPPOSE THE LiCIKSIfJtJ OS" SALOONS AND FAVOB TIHS ENFORCEMENT OP LAWS. To the People of t loomington: Im view of the fact that fonr applications for permission to retail mt'oxicijjting liquors as a beverage, in this $ty, are to come before the -'County -Board of Commissioners at their next meeting, we deem it fit tha thereshould he an expression of public seiithrMfnt upon the subject Wc are opposed to rtH7 the re tail traffic of liquor lite sanction and projection of the If. w. tf'e faX'or the strict enforcement We then, ihereby, earnestly call upon all citizens in tfcis community who agree wrih us in these respects, to s&emble iu Mass fleeting, at tfee Court House, next t ON DAY EVE, DE . 8rd, 18S3, at 7- o'clock,! give a public expression of our opinions as citizens upon this most important matter, and to consider what may be our duty as friend of temperance and the" euforcciuentof laws. To the good citizen, who loves scbiiety aad public peace, w ho oppeses drunkenness, disorder, and crime further word ol warning should not be neeessarv. That we may see the laws more faithfully enforced, that we may tiiiccessfullv nuoso the efforts beinostreniously made to inflict upon the comimmity lour retail Whisky 8 !.,,,,, that we may strengthen and . . 1 . .... encourage the officers m the perfor mance ot their sworn duties, that we may hold to .what we have gained and advance to a higher state of public morals, to these ends we confidt ntly ami fervently ask the co-operation and sympathy of all good men and women. Ky seven o1 clock the room was crowded and the audience waiting for a call to order, when Rev. W, I. McNary moved that.. Rev. J. E. Brant be made permanent chairman of the meeting, which was carried by a unanimous vote. Prof. J. A. Woodburu w.as selected as Secretary. After singing "A Charge to Kep I Have," and a fervent prayer by Prof. I . Bailentine, the meeting was declared ready for business. Resolutions were caled for, when the following committee was appointed: U . P. Mcary, R. A. Foster, .. A. V oodDurn, A. B. Philputt and Aniza Atvrater. W bile the committee was at its work, speeches in sympathy with the call were made by Prof. Hallentine, and iaj. A.ulky Here the committee on resolutions ntered and made a report When remarks were called for Hon. J . F. Pittman offered a substitute to the first resolution, more clearly stating the opposition of the meeting to "license" of any kind. Aftr some discussion & motion prevailed to incorporate it into the resolutions already read. Rev. WcNary then moved that the resolutions be adopted singly. Eaehsetion was then read, upon which interesting remarks were made by Dr. Moan, Prof. Atwater, W, p. MNwy, R. A. Foater, Prof. Bailentine, Joseph E, Henley and J,F,rittw, alter whick the

resolutions adopted were as follows: Whereas, There are now pending, before the Board f County ( 'om missioners three applicants to sell intoxicating liquors in ltss quantities than a quart, and Whersas, There has existed for the past few months an indifference to the commonly reported iileged salts of intoxicants in various places in oar city and countv. and WhM The vi niv vttttfSSS&KiL

: : ' -;v. . -'"wpyrc toxic&tmg Dovtragc seelr to cover up such sales under various devices, such as sales of cigars, then giving away liquor to be drunk on the premises plainly and in direct vio ation of law, and Whereas, Such practices' tend to the demoralization of our people and to lessen their regard for all laws, as well as to permoi in temperance and a 1 the terrible evils xesulting therefrom, therefore iiesoivea, lhat wc, as citizen in mass meeting assembled, do declare ourselves oppoaed to giving the re tail traffic us liquor the protection and approval of the law, and we express the hope that the Honorable Lioara oi County Commissioners will find it consistent with their duty to refuse to giant any licen e to sell intoxicating liquors m less quantities than a quart; Resolved, i hat, in our opinion the licensing of saloons vastly increases the consumption of liquors, and the amount of drunkenness, disorder and crime in the community; Rf solved, Tiiat if the law against scllu-.g liquor to minors, against selling on the Sabbath, against selling by the driuk without license, have been repeatedly disregarded at the quart salo -ns, and certain drugstores of this city, as commonly reported, we hold the officers who have been chosen and paid and pledged for the execution of the law, in gieat measure responsible that such violations &vc permitted with impurity, and we insist upon the officers discharging their duty in respect to such violation, pledging ourselves to extend to them all due support.

13 l 4 'I'i. .. . eiHiiou oi ciuxeiis in lorniiug a per manent organ izati on for the enforce ment of law, and we pledge our material support to such organiza t on in the interest of law and ord er. The resolution introduced by J. F Pittman is as follows: 'Resolved, That we as citizen voters and tax-payers, are unalterab ly opposed to granting license to retail intoxicating liquors, and especially do we oppose ihe latest expedient and specious argument (of the liquor interests) in favor of high li cense, for the reason that we are op posed to monopolies, even those that have for their object laudable pursuits much more are we opposed to indorsing (by high license , monopolies, the business of which tends to evil continually, and the re sult of which is the distinction of v lues and property aud for the lurther reason that the principle of high license is anti-Democratic and anti-Republi an." On motion a committee was appointed to organize a Law and Or der Club," consisting ef the following gentlemen: John Waldron, . J. Aden, J. E. Brant, Prof Newkirk, and Prof. Atwater. A motion to publish the proceedings was carried, when the meeting adjourned with the bencdiotion by D.Moss. Martinsville Republican: The Republican office was honored by a visit faom Hon. Sob uy lor Colfax Wednesday morning He was all over the office and was much at home in the composing room as in the sanctum He shook hands with our faithful and efficient compositors up stairs and could stand before a case as gracefully as the oldest compositor in the county. He is an old printer and newspaper man himself, and as a cheering hope to our brothers of the quill we can state that he was elected to congress from a printing office more primitive and less preten tious than many of the country offices of to-day. Friday evening last Miss Mollie Waldron entertained qnita a number of her special lady and gentlemen friends in the elegant style that is so characteristic of Bloomington's young ladies. Nice lunch was served at the nropsr time, the entire evening being much enjoyed. The "ilantsm Wife" company played to a small audience here '1 hursdayeyeiiag and then went to Bedford.

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Henry Daurghety returned

aay irom several week' h The : Midland," to be published St Louis by Rev. W. P. McNary, will make its first appearance January loth. Roy. M Phillputt preached at tfco union services atalm. on the tGrig an of ThankpgivW WW The ( rawfordavilie Nowa of Joe M. Smith, a prominent jiri. eler of Pdoomington, Ind., spent yesterday in the city, a guest of relatives." Who are they? VICTORY, John Stockwcll, the applicant far "1 cense'- first tried, is defeated, before the Board of Commissioners The Tklephose can state on au thority that the Temperance pcop'e intend following these cases through the Circuit Court if necessary. The Secretary of the State Board of Health has completed the table of births in the State during the past year, and a total of 37,695 is given Of this number, 19,310 were white males, 337 colored males, 17,873 white females, and 275 colored females, in Marion County there were 2,079 births, and of these 1,015 were white males, 65 colored males 025 white females and 74 colored females. ompared with last year the. births show an increase of 6.741. Persons wishing to receive some other publication and the Ixlbfhonk by ordering from this office will have advantage of the following: For one year the "Indiana State Journal" and the Telephone, $2.35; the Telephone and the " merican Agricultuiist," 2.50; the "Cincinnati Gazzett"' and Telephone, $2.40. he Telephone and the "Midland" (Rev. eNarv's paper) for $3.00, otftoe tne v win ie torwaraea to any oj these papers. Monday morning . obn Waldron" put a force of hands to excavating for a new rear to the Waldron block north east of the square he back is to be made two stories and extend to the allejr. Mc' heeters & Shoemaker will Tnove their tin shop down stairs, and J B. Allison will occupy the entre mtr of the second story, that will make a photograph gallery that in size will not be equaled perhaps in the State. He has bought out the beautifully fitted hallf the Phi Delta ' beta fraternity, and will uethat as a reception room. This fraternity will occupy the front room that for a time was used by the Mendelssohn society. Harrod burg News: be Harrodsburg Depot was entered by burgjars, on last Friday night, by their knocking off a plank of tha large door at the south end, which let them into the main building, then they went to the second room" north of the office; and prized a door open, which was fastened by a leather strap, then passing through twod -ore let them into the office I hey found a small package of money, $3.50, in a drawer, then breaking "in the ticket case they got about l 50. which mane about $5 00: They also broke open a trunk, but nu one knowing what all was in it, it is not known what was taken. The burglars were undoubtedly pretty well acquainted with the depot, as is proven by the course they took, as the two doors they went through were generally known not to be" locked " Prof. J. H. I ice, the astronomer electrician, weather prophet, and almanac-maker, died at his home in St. Louis Friday morning, aged seventy-three. He made cyclones a study, and was a believer in the theory that they were electric disturbances, totally dissimilar to the windstorms known as hurricanes He also claimed to have discovered an iatermercurial planet, which he named ' Yulcan, and from the movements of whioh he based his weather predictions. The existence of this planet has been denied by other aetrOttOQV' ers. The almanac published for. the Sast ten years had a large circulation, lany of the predictions were unfortunate. A grand meteoric display promised for November of 1880 iaiU ed to eventuate. The Proeesaor leotured in Mendelssohn halt in & f winter of 1881, and will Im tvmm bered by many of oir eitiia.

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