Sunday Prosecution and Rest

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · February 19, 1908

Sunday Prosecution and Rest.

We clip the following from the Idaho Scimitar of Jan. 4, 1908, which credits it to the Owyhee Nugget. It is a fairly good illustration of how Sunday laws are regarded:

“A few Sundays ago a farmer drove over to the county attorney’s office and demanded the arrest of a near neighbor’s thrashing crew that was violating the Sabbath, says an exchange. The county attorney was pulling weeds in his garden and he suggested that the complainant go before the justice of the peace of his township, but he was informed that the justice was fixing his windmill. He was then asked to telephone the sheriff and have him attend to the matter, but he was loading cattle at the stock-yards. The farmer was exasperated and resolved to saddle a horse and go for the constable, but his good wife, who was canning fruit, informed him that the boys had driven the horse to town and were playing ball.”