Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1901 — AN AIX CASE. [ARTICLE]

AN AIX CASE.

James Wiseman Arrested for Keeping His Store Open on Sunday. James Wiseman, jr., for Aix, was arrested on complaint of Samuel Putts, a neighbor, last Friday evening charged with keeping his store open on Sunday. The U. B. Churcli is located across the road from Wiseman’s store and Putts claimed that the store being open on Sunday was an annoyance to the congregation, owing to the loafers who congregated there Wiseman claimed that he was not in the habit of keeping his store open during services but admitted that he occasionaly opened the store on Sunday at the request of his customers to give them their mail and sell them goods. There seemed to be considerable spite work in the prosecution and Wiseman was acquitted by the jury. The case was tried by Squire Burn ham at his court in Rensselaer.