22 Liquor Licenses Denied

Herald of April 2, 1895

Judge Bell ruled on liquor license applications, granting 67 out of 89 requests. All applications for brewery licenses were approved. Among the applications denied were some from Claysburg, Roaring Spring and Williamsburg. Some citizens celebrated the decision by ringing the church bells in Williamsburg.

The Roaring Spring correspondent noted that “Henry Lorenz Esq., justice of the peace, county auditor, purifier of the official atmosphere and general insurance agent, now occupies his palatial mansion but remains the same common, good fellow he has always been.”...