Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-05-16

providing for the dead, or to news
stands SO far as the quiet sale and
delivery of daily papers is con-
cerDed nor to the sale OF nom
Intoxicating refreshments, candies
and cigars
Section 3. II shall be unlawful /
for any person OF persons in this
state to keep open on Sunday any
saloon or place of any kind or de- {
scriptlon in which spirituous, vim
Gus, malt or any Intoxicating 4
liquors al at any time sold or ex-
posed for sale or TO give or sell or
otherwise dispose OF any spirituous,
vinous, malt or any Intoxicating
liquors except as provided for in
other parts of this act; or to open
any theater, playhouse, dance
house, racetrack, mcrry-go-round,
circus or show, concert saloon, bill
lard or pool room, bowling alley,
variety hall or any such place of /
public amusement.
Section q. IT shall be unlawful /
for any person or persons in this
state 10 engage on Sunday in horse
racing.
II will be seen that this is
general closing law, that is all
places Of business or trade are
required TO close except those es-
pecially permitted to keep open.
1t will also be noticed that the
law does not prohibit the perform
ing of lsbor or doing OF work, but
hat its entire object seems TO be
the stopping Of business on Sun
day; accordingly The making or
preparing Of things, articles and
products TO be put in business or
trade on q secular day is not
within its prohibition, SO that all
factories, breweries, distiileries and
shops may run on Sunday provided
the business part thereof is closed
down
find also that the courts have
construed such laws TO permit the
inesses or trades ia SO far as they
relate to works Of charity or neces-
sity. thus: 4 gas company may
supply gas, a water company wa
ter, 4 milkmau deliver milk, ali
iceman ice, and a telegram company
may keep open for the sending of
kilograms relating to sickness, death
and the like, but bath houses may
not keep open for the purpose of
TO be a necessity on Sunday. Since
every place of business what
ever must be closed except Ger
tain enumerated ones. should you
wish to know whether your place
must be closed il will be necessary
TO determine whether yours is
work of charity or necessity or is
one of the excepted ones Shaving,
bathing, shoe shining, running
street cars, have been held not TO
be works of necessity or charity,
hence all printing shops, barber
shops, the Natatorium, and all shoe
shining parlors must be closed, and
street cars are prohibited from do
ing business on Sunday.
The Oregon Short Line dcpots
arc places of business and must be
closed, at least so far as the selling
OF tickets for pleasure or business
b
could sell to those who could
show their contemplated trip one
of necessity or charity, such as
doctors or others visiting the sick
or needy or attending funerals or to
save life or property. Messenger
services and 4. ID. T. shops must
be closed except in So far as the
carrying of messages from neces-
sity or charity, such as the delivery
of medicines and sick room articles
sold by drug stores. and the law
specially excerpts the quiet deliv-
cry of newspapers, but, of course,
this does not permit the crying of
newspapers on the streets. Cigar
stands are permitted to keep open,
and l 3 i've it as my opinion that the
card rooms connected with most
cigar stands may run because the
words ''or any such place of public
amusement found at the end of
section 5, relates to games and
amusoments similar TO those partic-
ularly enumerated. Baseball play
ing is not prohibited. but is not the
playing of league ball where an adj
mission is charged, and as now
generally carried on, q business? If
SO, it would be prohibited am
asked whether the Nstatorium can
keep open for the purpose of it's
usual Sunday afternoon concerts,
for which an admission fee is
charged? This is undoubtedly the
carrying on of business and under
the terms of the new law is prohib-
tied Bakeries may deliver their
products to restaurants and hotels.