SUNDAY ENFORCEMENT NOTES AND COMMENT.
By Editor
THE mayor of Waterville, Minn., has forbidden ball playing within the city limits on Sunday. BURLINGTON church people "are going after the Sunday-band concerts in Crapo Park," was reported from Burlington, Iowa, recently. IT is reported from Guckeen, Minn., that the mayor of that place tolerates no Sunday ball games or other sabbath-breaking amusements. THE police displayed great activity in suppressing baseball playing at Newark, N. J., on Sunday, June 17. Even amateur games, where no admission was charged, were stopped. IT was reported from Lufkin, Texas, recently, that the Sunday law is being so strictly enforced that it is now impossible to buy a cigar or a glass of soda-water on the "sabbath." AS THE result of an old Sunday law being rigorously enforced at Austin, Texas, on Sunday, June 25, the saloons, soda-fountains, etc., were closed. It was impossible to get a shoe shined. OBJECTION to the Sunday competition of the small dealers was recently made by the large dealers at Muncie, Ind., and the ministerial association was to take up the matter in the interests of Sunday closing. AS SHOWING the development of the disposition to get outdoors on Sunday, the Brooklyn Eagle notes that on a recent Sunday 1,780,000 passengers were carried on the street railways of that city. COMMENCING on the following Sunday, Burgess Wills was to enforce the "blue laws," was the report from Windber, Pa., on June 8. This action was to be taken in response to a petition from four clergymen of the place. AT a recent meeting of the city council of Salem, S. D., the matter of closing saloons on Sunday was brought up, and it was the unanimous will of the mayor and council that the law be enforced. Warnings have been issued, and the council will see to the prosecution of any violation. THE enforcement of the Sunday law was recently ordered by the city council of North Yakima, Wash. The only places to be open hereafter on Sunday will be hotels, restaurants, and drugstores. All ice-cream parlors and cigar stands will come under the ban. The order was especially directed against liquor selling. The council has adopted a resolution to the effect that if any of the saloons or other licensed places violate the law, state or city, their licenses will be revoked. AN amendment of the by-laws to prohibit local camps or foresters' teams from holding Sunday picnics or excursions under the auspices of the society, with a penalty for disobedience of expulsion or revocation of charter, was recommended in the report of Head Consul Talbot at the fourteenth biennial convention of the head camp of Modern Woodmen of America in Milwaukee, Wis., on June 20. IT was reported from Salina, Kansas, on June 14, that in a decision by Police Judge Blundon the Sunday ordinance was practically knocked out. The case was that of a barber who had been arrested for keeping open on the preceding Sunday. The movement to keep Sunday a closed day has now reached the place where the responsibility devolves upon the county attorney, as the city ordinances are not sufficient. FOLLOWING the declaration of the newsdealers that they would not abide by the ruling, but would appeal to the courts, Mayor Kinsey of Fairmont, W. Va., who had ordered stringent enforcement of the Sunday law in that place, has reconsidered his order relative to selling newspapers on Sundays, and decided not to prevent the sale either at the news-stands or on the streets. IT was recently reported from Anderson, Ind., that the police board is frowning upon the recent opinion of Police Judge Horne acquitting baseball players who were arrested for Sunday playing. AT a recent meeting of the city council of Kirksville, Mo., the baseball ordinance passed almost unanimously, and Sunday baseball playing within the city limits is now prohibited. OWING to the fact that the law in Indiana prevents Sunday baseball, the Sunday games scheduled between Louisville and Indianapolis in the Hoosier capital have been transferred to Louisville.