Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1915 — Chicagoans Pay Rents and Grocer Since Sunday Closing. [ARTICLE]

Chicagoans Pay Rents and Grocer Since Sunday Closing.

Sunday was the fifth dry one in Chicago. It was not altogether dry but somewhat improved over the wideopen Sundays of the past. It is now possible to go to a restaurant on Saturday and pay for a few drinks and then go in Sunday to have them served. There are some other plans of evasion, but the drinking has been cut down 90 per cent. Some unbiased investigation shows that since the Sunday closing order there has been more attention paid to legitimate business and the grocer, the meat dealer and the property owner reports a decided improvement. The drier Chicago gets the greater the prosperity for legitimate trade and for family happiness and for a lessening of crime.