Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1904 — ALMOST A RIOT. [ARTICLE]

ALMOST A RIOT.

'i Some fellows who had evidently emptied too many schooners got into an altercation in the show near the old McCoy bank Thursday night about ten o’clock, and Ike Stephenson of Parr and the carnival high-diver are said to have exchanged several blows. The “hey rube” call was given by the carnival people and the latter came running from all directions with clubs and other implements of warfare, and one or two are said to have displayed revolvers. For a time it looked very warlike, as a number of Stephenson’s friends had lined up on his side, but the incipient riot was finally quelled and armed neutrality restored v '\ There is more business to the square inch in “The Two Big Stores” than any other in this county. We buy and sell everything G. M. Wilcox & Son.