Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1911 — BOTH COMING AND GOING [ARTICLE]

BOTH COMING AND GOING

Squire Irwin Caught a Bibulous Fair Oaks Bridegroom. Squire Irwin got double action on a Fair Oaks bridegroom Wednesday. Roy Brouhard was the name of the Fair Oaks man. who arrived in town on the 11:06 a. m. train with Miss MaryElizabeth Sorensen and after, procuring a they the “marrying Squire’s” knot< properly tied? As the woman has a child two years old, which she alleges Brouhard is the father of, it would perhaps have been better had they- got married long ago. But this wasn’t the Squire’s business, and he performed the ceremony- without any unnecessary side lecture to the pair.

About two hours later Brouhard again appeared before His Honor, but this time ‘it was Marshal Mustard who had him by the collar, and he was; decidedly drunk. The marshal had found him over on the Washington street bridge hugging his wife in broad daylight and not caring a rap who saw him. either. so the strong arm of the law was invoked to stop such unseemly exhibition. There was an old score of 59.85 resting against Brouhard on the Squire’s books for an intoxication fee which he had been allowed to go on about two years ago. The Squire didn’t have the heart to ask Brouhard about it on his first appearance before him with his bride, but when he gazed upon him later fie decided that the old score must be wiped out, and also, for good measure, added a “dollar and” to the $9.85. Brouhard had no money to liquidate, neither had the bride, so it was off to the jail with him and back to Fair Oaks alone for the bride. (Brouhard claimed to have drank about a half pint of alcohol which he had bought here on a doctor’s prescription by representing that he wanted it for an alcohol lamp. Evidently the “lamp” flame got beyond his control. Thursday George Brouhard, father of the bibulous bridegroom, came down and stayed the fine and costs and the latter was released.