Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1913 — Marshal Had Early Call To Settle Family Troubles. [ARTICLE]

Marshal Had Early Call To Settle Family Troubles.

Marshal Shesler received a hurryup" call at an early hoilr Thursday morning, a neighbor having info nned him that domestic ; strife had again broken out at «h#home of Whitsell Lewis in the northwest part of town. He hurried to the scene, arriving there at about 6:30 o’clock and found evidences of discord, although the belligerents had not started a fistic combat. He acted as a mediator and temporary peace was restored. In the house with Mr. Lewis, who is a veteran of the civil war and 77 years of age, resides his wife and her daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs, Clifford Sumner. It seems to be everybody against the old gentleman when trouble starts and Marshal Shesler says that the stories vary so widely that he don’t know where, to place the blame. Mr. Lewis says that he can get along all right with his wife If the daughter and son-in-law will move out, and Mrs. Lewis says that she won’t stay If the young couple are forced to leave. She says he threatened to kill her with a hatchet and that she fears him. Neighbors generally seem to favor the old gentleman and say that the young people are causing the trouble. It is a problem ’’ln peace making that is too deep for the marshal and will probably require a round in the justice’s court before permanent tranquility is restored.