Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1911 — Posted Poisel Positively and Punched Poisel Punctually. [ARTICLE]

Posted Poisel Positively and Punched Poisel Punctually.

Elmer Baker, a fine looking young farm hand who works for Otto Chasteen, of Gillam township, was fined $1 and costs this Monday morning for having struck Albert Polsel, another young farm hand. Both young men were working with a threshing machine at the John Watson home on the J. J. Hunt farm in Gillam. According to both of them Baker had come up with a load of oats and had stopped at the engine while other wagons were being unloaded. Poisel came up and drove around Baker. Baker admonished him that he was getting out of line. Poisel did not stop. Baker caught his horses by the reins and tried to turn them aside, but Poisel kept right ahead. Then Baker told Poisel to turn out of his place or he would “slough” him one. Still Poisel did not heed. Baker climbed up on the wagon, tucked a right hander under Poisel’s right jaw, and Poisel landed some place in the oats stubble, free from the load. The rest was easy. Baker took the lines, drove Poisel’s rig aside and then drove his own rig in place. Poisel journeyed to Rensselaer and caused Baker’s arrest. That added to the costs, but the case could just as well have been handled in Gillam township. The defendant and -his employer and the prosecuting witness and his father were here for the trial, and Baker plead guilty. ' • ,