Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1919 — IT CAR BE EASILY REMEDIED [ARTICLE]

IT CAR BE EASILY REMEDIED

If Rensselaer Merchants Desire to Close Before Sunday Mornings. At ttjf morning services at the M. E. church Sunday the matter of the stores of Rensselaer keeping open till midnight and after on Saturday nights was discussed, and a vote was taken asking that the merchants close at 11 o’clock, in order that the employes might get some sleep and then get up in time to attend Sunday school and church Sunday morning; also to keep from desecrating the Sabbath by peeping their places of business open until unseemily hourq. It woujd seem to The Democrat that the merchants themselves are wholly to blame for keeping open so late. They have an organization here and all they have to do if they wish to close at 11 o’clock is to say so and let their customers know that their places will be closed at auch hour. It is a very easy matter to arrange if they desire to, and the farmers will certainly not object to such closing time. But so long as they keep open till 12 or 1 o’clock, just so long will some people put off taking their goods from the stores until such hours.