Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1915 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Remember the box social, at McCoysburg Saturday night, Jan. 30. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bussell and Morris Jacks took dinner with Geo. Parker and family Sunday. Florence Busselll is sick with a bronchial trouble and is unable to return to schoofl this week. Frank Lowman was brought home Saturday. He came to Rensselaer on the afternoon train and was met at the station by Wasl\ Cook with his car. Frank came over to MeCoysburg Sunday and someone asked him how he was feeling. He said; “I m feeling good as ever, only there isn't so much of me any more.” All of his friends are elated to have him home again. The State vs. Messenger trial is to be tried at Kentfland Monday. A number of witnesses were called from here by the state, which Is being represented by Deputy Prosecutor Chas. Sands. The ease is the outgrowth of a Sunday robbery committed upon Frank Foss early last fall, by C. E. Messenger and a John Smith. The affidavit for their arrest w r as made by Millard Fross, a brother of the victim. But Smith made good his escape before the constable could get to the place where he had been seen. (Messenger was arrested and given a hearing before Squire Bussell, where he pleaded not guilty and was bound over to the circuit court unijea SI,OOO bail and the court later reduced his bond and released Messenger from jqd, by Johnson and Herr signing the bond. It is rather difficult to make a safe guess what the outcome of the case will be, for there seems to be many ways for criminals to escape justice. But it is sincerely hoped that, it will have considerable weight jon the young men’s minds and cause them to sit up and take more than ordinary precaution to prevent such deplorable actions to creep into their lines. Alcoholic drink manifested itself very plainly throughout the whole affair and probably if £hese men had never created the habit for drink they would never have brought such disgrace on their families, relatives and the community. There is no doufbt that not a single man or woman here, but what have sympathy for the family, but If the law did not take a hand, where woqld this debauchery run to? -