Agitation for Sunday Store Closing

International Religious Liberty Association · Chicago, Illinois · Jun 28, 1900

FromThe American Sentinel, The Sentinel of Liberty, Vol. 15, No. 25.

Agitation for Sunday Store Closing

“The proverbial quietude and peacefulness of Englewood on Sunday mornings is being fearfully shattered these days,” says the Chronicle of this city. Every Sunday morning “there is a lively state of affairs in the neighborhood of Sixty-third and Halsted streets which occurs with such regularity that now crowds are beginning to assemble to see the fun.”

The occasion of the disturbance is an effort to induce a dealer in clothing and shoes to close his store on Sunday.

This merchant keeps open a few hours Sunday forenoon, but gives each of his clerks a whole day's vacation each week. These clerks have signed a written statement that they are perfectly satisfied with the arrangement; but though they are satisfied others are not, and demand that the store be closed all day Sunday.