Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1920 — WILL R. WOOD IN HAPPY MOOD [ARTICLE]

WILL R. WOOD IN HAPPY MOOD

1 Representative Will R. Wood, of. the Tenth Congressional district, is in a happy mood, according to the following information contained in a recent Washington, D. C., dispatch: . I “Representative Will R. Wood of Indiana writes that the republicans are going to win hands down out in his state and that he will be bock on the job in Congress, as usual, this year. He predicts this because he says folks are taking him a Mt more seriously as a representative than they did as a lawyer when ho first started to practice, and adds this tale: “While at Jiome on my first vacation from law school a man living in our town concluded that he would break up housekeeping and. undertook to do it very precipitately. EEs loaded up with corn juice, went down to the house occupied by himself* and wife and commenced throwing the furniture out of the window. The wife screamed, attracting the attention of some of the neighbors who came in and arrested him. “The offender had no lawyer so the old justice of the peace before whom the case was to be tried, suggested that it would be good praetice for me. I tendered my services to the defendant and they were readily accepted. The hour came for the trial. The little office was crowded, most of the spectators being my companions, who were anmour to see an exhibition of my legal ability. The defendant was .pry*; ing up. and ddwn in about six feet of space at one side of the table, at one end of which I was aittmff and the justice of the peace at tip other end, and the wife immediately across the table from him. We wer* waiting for the prosecutor, who was delayed. The defendant would my glare at his wife, then at the JUMM* of the peace, and then look suspmously at me. He kept this up for quite a little time and I could not understand its meaning, but soon I found out when my dient,after assuming a dramatic pose, yelled at the top of his voice: “‘Bill Wood; I discharge you from this case. I will be nIMUM if I will have any man Mt as lawyer who sits here and winks apd blinks at my wife.” *