Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1910 — ’TWAS AN AWFUL LOAD, [ARTICLE]

’TWAS AN AWFUL LOAD,

And White County Man Fell Across An Iron Fence In Trying to Carry It. The worst case of drunk we have seen in Rensselaer for several years passed by The Democrat office yesterday at 7:25 a. m., trying to make the Monon depot to take the milk train to go north. The fellow was making tracks fast enough, but as he found the sidewalks and street too narrow it would have taken him about two weeks in his intoxicated state to have reached the station, even had he not come to grief before going two blocks. The party hailed from the capital of White County, and is a traveling salesman* it is said. He was here Thursday and had a big “jag” on then. He wanted to go north Thursday evening, but missed his train. He seems to have continued loading up all night long, and the load he carried yesterday morning would have broken an elephant down. When between John Eger’s and Joe Larsh’s residences he he tacked too much to the west and fell across the low iron fence, hanging there unable to do anything but kick. Several people who were watching his labored traveling, from up town, ran to his rescue and he was placed on his feet and led down near the depot and put to bed. His face and nose were quite badly cut by coming in contact with an iron brace on the fence, and he bled considerably. Whether the booze burden was brought with him in the grip he carried or was of the local supply, we are not advised.