Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1898 — To Close At 6:30. [ARTICLE]

To Close At 6:30.

On and after next week two of our leading dry good firms, Ellis & Murray and Porter & Yeoman, will adopt and expect to adhere to, an early closing rule. On all days of the week except Mondays and Saturdays they will close at 6:30 p. m. On the two nights mentioned they will close at their pleasure. We most earnestly com mend this movement to the other mercantile firms of our town. As the practice now is of remaining open until a late hour every night in the week, neither proprietors nor clerks have any hours of liberty at all. Such slavish confinement to their vocations is not in keeping with the advanced and philanturopic spirit of the nge and ought to he done away with.