From the Lawrence Daily World for April 11, 1907: “A judge in Indiana has issued a ruling that a saloon is so evil that a state license for operating such is invalid. It is an action of last resort that may never been enforced but the motive behind the ruling is understandable to most people here, where too many joints still are operating, most of them illegal even under the more lenient of laws. : People who have secured a valuable franchise for using the streets of Lawrence for a trackless trolley are now asking for an electric light franchise and the city council objects to being ‘rushed’ into action. The council says it will go slowly and deliberately to protect the public to the maximum.”