Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1916 — A Noisy Charivari Indeed. [ARTICLE]

A Noisy Charivari Indeed.

The charivari crowd out at C. E. AjValing's, southeast of town, Tuesday night was a hummer so far as noise-making was concerned at least. 1 Some one shot off five pounds of dynamite about 11 o'clock and the shock was sufficent to jar houses in the neighborhood and was distinctly felt by many in Rensselaer. As the new German and Austrian policy of sinking armed merchant vessels without warning went into effect Tuesday night at midnight, some people thought a half dozen ships had been blown up at once. It is said that the dynamite was fired oft at some little distance from the house and no damage resulted other than a big scare and a shaking up of the occupants. The marriage for which the “belling" was in honor of, took place a couple of weeks ago when John A. Shields was married to Miss Edith Waling, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Waling. The young couple had been away since that time, it is understood, and had returned but a short time before the “belling" took place.