Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1912 — STILL OBSERVE MARKET DAY [ARTICLE]

STILL OBSERVE MARKET DAY

Canadian Cltlea Preserve a Worthy Old Institution Brought Over From Great Britain. “Market day,” for ages an institution in England, still exists in certain localities, and may still be studied with Interest by the tourist who visits Halifax, Nova Scotia, or Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, where large enclosures and roomy market houses are maintained for the benefit of the country people and such citizens as have established a regular market business. Everything from live stock to a bouquet of flowers may be brought here for sale, the owner being allotted a suitable place and charged a small fee for his accommodation, and while most of the market people are far from being especially rustic in their dress or speech, the variety and sometimes the peculiarity or their offerings still suggest the Important part which the English market and its legal oontrol played In the local and business life of three centuries ago.—Charles Winslow Hall, in National Magazine.