Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — Judge’s New Domicile Keeps Things Sparkling [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Judge’s New Domicile Keeps Things Sparkling

CLEVELAND, O.— Shocking! Perfectly shocking! That’s what is said of the home of George Baer, municipal jndge, at 1728 East One Hundred and Sixteenth street. And the house is shocking—the judge admits it. “Ecstatically speaking,” Baer adds. When the judge’s wife arose the other morning and started to ply a comb through her lochs a crackling sound arrested her. She dropped the comb and felt t»f her sleeve connection. There had been no rip, but when she started to comb again the crackling resultod. - she touched the judge on the forehead to awaken him. A little Bpark tumped UP more promptly than his honor. “Here’s your coffee, George,” she said at breakfast, and as he reached to take it their fingers touched and another little spark jumped from the contact point Of their digits. A*nd then —and here’s the real reason for the investigation started by Baer—when the judge was about to leave for downtown he and his wife

stood near the front door, "saluting;” a large spark rose from the point where their noses touched. ’Twas -a shocking kiss That was the last straw. “Not that the wife and 1 are not used to Bparking,” says Baer, telling of the incident, “but fhls is a new brand, and it isn’t pleasant I’ve gone to the telephone and electric light companies to see what the trouble is. The whole place seems to be charged with electricity. “Only the other night Judge McGannon and his wife came out to the house and a spark rose when he and I shook hands. More sparks from the greeting of Mrs. McOannon and my wife. Shocking? Well, it sure is.”