Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1912 — SUNDAY BRAWL AT PARR; BLACKSMITH ASSAULTED. [ARTICLE]

SUNDAY BRAWL AT PARR; BLACKSMITH ASSAULTED.

Alleged Selling of Booze Will Be Investigated—lnjured Ran Wfll Be Rendered Partially Deaf. W. L. Wood was down from Parr Monday, bringing his blacksmith, George Smith, down for some patchwork repairs. According to information we have received, Smith indulged with others in a jamboree Sunday, and the festival seemed to centek about Ed Gilmore’s sols drink emporium. The particulars of the affray that led up to Smith’s injury are obscured by apparent pledges of secrecy, but at any rate Smith got his noodle rapped with a ball bat or something else and was rendered unconscious. Dr. Hemphill attended to him aftef he was brought to Rensselaer and it was found that his left ear was badly bruised and the drum of the ear injured, probably to such an extent that he will be totally deaf in that ear. It is claimed that there has been a lot of clandestine liquor selling at Parr and that an investigation will at once be set on foot. The assailant of Smith is reported to be a lad only about 16 years of age, who is thought to have been under the influence of liquor. The fullest investigation of the assault should be made, and probably will be, and the assailant of Smith should not only be given a Stiff dose of the law, but also and still’ more of it to the person or persons responsible for his condition, if it is true that he was intoxicated.