Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1918 — AS THE MERCHANTS SEE IT. [ARTICLE]

AS THE MERCHANTS SEE IT.

In answer to the article in Saturday’s Republican about the hours for opening and closing the stores. The party who made the remark, either wants special catering or does not understand the stores are kept open especially on Wednesday and Saturday nights just such men as he and our farmers who work all day and can not get into the stores only after six o’clock. The merchants of Rensselaer are certainly liberal when it comes to keeping the stores open at night until twelve and one o’clock, such hours no one else ever heard of. It would seem that the patrons of Rensselaer stores could not possibly find any reason to “kick” on the store hours. But the merchants should get together and close the stores at a respectable hour on Saturday nights. As to the mail order business it is the duty of every man, woman and child to help and build up their own “home town”. Patronize the town in every way possible and make it a town that we all will be proud to call “our town.” CONTRIBUTED.