Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1915 — SHORTY ADAMS GETS PENAL FARM SENTENCE [ARTICLE]

SHORTY ADAMS GETS PENAL FARM SENTENCE

Fined SSO and Copts and Govern 30Day Sentence —Everet Meade Fined and Given Warning. Mayor Spitler convened court Tuesday evening and issued . some sentences and warnings that should do a great deal of good to the persons affected as well as to society in general. Shorty Adams had some trouble at'the match factory Monday and came down town with hie face covered with blood. He wae intoxicated and could give no coherent account of his trouble. When washed up he was somewhat improved and no serious bruises adorned 'him. In his oompan ywas 'Everet Meade, who has been under the influence of John Barleycorn on a number of occasions since he came here from Chicago about »tWo years ago. On information Deputy Prosecutor Sands filed affidavits against them and Mayor Spitler fined Shorty SSO and costs and sentenced him to thirty days on the penal farm. The costs were <slo and totaled all up Shorty will'have to spend 90 days on the farm. He was taken there today in charge of (Deputy Sheriff John Robinson. It was the third time Shorty had been fined for drunkenness and Mayor Spitler is following a plan employed in other places with characters of this type. Meade was fined $lO and costs, totaling S2O, which he paid. He was svarned that his next arrest would result in a trip to the penal farm. There are some others whose conduct is apt to result in similar sentences unless they reform and they should take warning and get ready to turn over a new leaf on New Year’s day.