Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1916 — LIVELY TIME AT GIFFORD SUNDAY [ARTICLE]

LIVELY TIME AT GIFFORD SUNDAY

Baptismal Service Annoyed by Reckless Driving and Fights—Two " Draw Fines. Twenty-four persons who had been converted at a recent revival at Gifford, were baptized last Sunday and a religious service was conducted. It seems that some rowdies annoyed the meeting quite a little and that there was a wild racing of horses along the highway and a four-cornered fight. The reckless driving was said to have been performed by the Ballard brothers from Medaryville and they are reported to have had a fight with Ernest Cavender and Sale Sult. The fracas is reported to have resulted from Sult having been knocked down and run over by the horses that the Ballards were driving. Cavender then took up the gauntlet on behalf of Sult and judged from his appearance the matter of being run over by a team of horses is a rather insignificant thing, for Sult was little injured while Cavender had a number of discolorations and bruises. Early Monday morning Squire Bussell, of Hanging Grove township, was awakened by rapping at his door and responsfe disclosed two penitent supplicants awaiting punishment at his altar of justice. They pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace and were each fined $1 and costs. Judge Bussell figured up the accounts and then, evidently deciding that he had let the offenders off too easily, he fined them each $1 for Sabbath desecration. The total bargain day price for the two offenders was $lO, which they paid. Cavender is a married man. Sult is said to be a new comer and is just getting acquainted with the estimate placed upon Sunday fighting in this section of the country. The Ballards were not arrested. They had returned to their home in Pulaski county and no affidavit was sworn out against them. '