TEMPERANCE TRIUMPH - 1875

HETTICH, RUKGABER, HENNE, SCHMITZ, LINES, STRAUB, JERICHO

Posted By: Pat Ryan White (email)
Date: 1/14/2018 at 11:22:04

TEMPERANCE TRIUMPH!

The Expiration of the Wine and Beer Licenses!
And the Assured Closing of the Saloons!

The united and earnest efforts of the temperance advocates in this city have at last brought success and the drinking element is at least under apparent control. The licenses that were granted under the act of the city council last spring have now about expired with no chance of renewal for another year. The licenses of the following saloon keepers will expire on the 14th of next month: August Hettich, D. Rukgaber, John Henne, Martin Schmitz and S.M. Lines. One other license, that held by E. Straub, will run until the 18th of the following May, and after that date there can be no longer any legal traffic in wine and beer, in Mt. Pleasant for 1875. There would certainly have been advantage taken of the prohibitory ordinance and renewals of the expiring licenses demanded during the five days between the passage of the ordinance and its becoming a law, had not the new council shrewdly have foreseen such a movement and instructed the mayor by resolution not to grant any license until compelled by legal process to do so.

It is reported that several social drinking clubs will be organized immediately after the closing of the saloons, and it is also intimated upon good authority that the ex-saloon keeper Dick Jericho has bought grounds outside the city limits in the vicinity of the Seminary for the purpose of establishing a beer garden upon a large scale. But, in any event, there can be no retail traffic of beer and wines in this city for the next year.

[Unnamed newspaper {probably Mount Pleasant “Free Press” or “Home Journal”} March 18th 1875, Page 3]