Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1910 — “Ben Page Celebrated Too Strong at Parr Fall Festival. [ARTICLE]

“Ben Page Celebrated Too Strong at Parr Fall Festival.

Ben Page is the village blacksmith at Parr and a very clever fellow when not in* his cups. Thursday he fell from grace and Friday morning he was about the whole thing In Parr judged by his exultation. There were some other people at Parr who wanted to have something to say about the Parr fall festival and they decided that Ben would be a poor attraction for the big show. The idea of putting him in a cage and exhibiting him as the original wild man probably never occurred to them, and they took a different course, that of having him arrested and brought to Rensselaer. Deputy Sheriff Robinson went after him and he was handcuffed and brought to town. He /plead so effectually that the handcuffs were removed on his promise to be good, but he almost broke his promise. He had been painted up with tar by some of the village cut-ups at Parr and looked like a Fiji islander. He was too much intoxicated when he reached Rensselaer to be taken before the justice and was placed in jail until he quieted down.