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Exemption Recognized

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 7, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 23.

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Exemption Recognized

Exemption Recognized.—In Columbus, Ohio, a few weeks ago, a Jew was arrested for keeping his place of business open on Sunday, and was fined in the Police Court. His case was appealed to the Common Pleas Court, and the decision reversed, on the ground that the defendant had observed the previous day. So rarely are the seventh-day observers accorded the exemption right, even where it is provided, that the press despatches recorded this as the first instance of the kind in the state.