DRAKESVILLE IOWA

HIGH LIFE HOTEL

1945

DRAKESVILLE STORES SOLD                          -1945

 Two stores at Drakesville changed owners last week for undisclosed considerations.

Jack Thompson, a recently discharged veteran, is the new owner of the Tannehill General Store. Since her husbands death Mrs Tannehill has managed the store.

Lloyd T Brown of Ottumwa is now owner and operator of the former Yore General store.

SEEK INJUNCTION AT DRAKESVILLE

File Petition Today Asking Closing of High Life Hotel

                A petition asking for a permanent injuction against the operators and owners of the High Life hotel in Drakesville was files in district court this afternoon by County Attorney W R Fimmen. Judge E K Daughtery set Monday, May 14, as the date for hearing on the injunction proceedings, filed as the State of Iowa, ex re. W R Fimmen, county attorney, vs. Dorothy Fresh, Leo Stanley, James Hall and others. Miss Fresh and Stanley are the operators of the hotel, and Hall owns the building.

The  petition also seeks the cancellation of the beer license and the padlocking of the building and further asks that the injunction later be made permanent.

Injunction proceedings were instituted by County Attorney Fimmen on the grounds of a nuisance, following reports made to county authorities and investigations made by them

The hotel opened last Tuesday night under new management. Officers were called to Drakesville late Tuesday when the opening festivities assumed boisterous proportions, but no arrests were made.

COURT ENJOINS HOTEL OPERATOR

Daughtery Issues Temporary Writ on High Life

A temporary injunction, enjoining Dorothy Fresh and Leo Stanley, operators of the High Life hotel at Drakesville from the illegal sale of intoxication liquors or the operation of maintenance of a liquor nuisance was issued by Judge E K Daughtery of Ottumwa, in the Davis

County, district court Saturday.

Judge Daughtery in his opinion said the evidence satisfied him beyond all question that a liquor nuisance existed at the High Life hotel.

County Attorney W R Finmen, who instituted injunction proceedings had asked that the court issues a temporary injunction to restrain the establishment from operation at all until a hearing on the permanent injunction proceedings premanently close the place and that the beer license be revoked. The judge said his powers were not such that he could revoke the beer license.

The hearing on the temporary injunction was held June 15. Judge Daughtery had the matter under advisement until her rendered a decision Saturday morning. At the hearing affidavits were submitted by counsel for both sides. County Attorney Fimmen sought to prove by affidavits of several Drakesville resident, that the High Life hotel was a nuisance, that “hard” liquor had been sold by the operators, and that the operators had violated their beer license.

Affidavits on behalf of the defendants were submitted in defense of the hotel and its reputation. Heinrich C Taylor, local attorney, represented the defendants. The defendants denied having sold “hard” liquor or having violated their beer license. It is expected the injunction asked will be held during the regular September term of the local court. – June 26, 1934 Davis County Republican