Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — NO OPEN SUNDAY AT ATLANTA. [ARTICLE]

NO OPEN SUNDAY AT ATLANTA.

Resolution to That Effect Tabled, It Is Thought Permanently, The preachers of Atlanta are still fighting the exposition on the question of sale of liquor on the grounds. A meeting of the Methodist Ministers' Association was held, and at that meeting the special committee appointed a week ago reported that it had secured legal advice on the question, and that the lawyers were unanimous in their opinion that the right to sell liquor did not belong to the exposition people or to their concessioners legally. A long discussion as to what the ministers should do in view of their report followed. .Some of them were in favor of enjoining the exposition directors from allowing liquor to be sold on the grounds, while others favored bringing the matter to the attention of the grand jury. The matter finally-took that course. A resolution was adopted thanking the exposition directors for keeping the grounds closed on Sunday and expressing the hope that they will continue to keep them closed. At the meeting of the board of exposition directors action was taken which apparently kills for all time the project to open the exposition on Sundays. A resolution providing for Sunday opening was introduced by Director Cabaniss, but after some lively discussion was tabled. The advocates of Sunday opening have not lost hope, but it is pretty safe ti> say the chances of that resolution remaining tabled are excellent.