Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1916 — Water Valley Neighbors Have Shocking Clothes-Line Quarrel. [ARTICLE]

Water Valley Neighbors Have Shocking Clothes-Line Quarrel.

Lowell, Ind., Aug. 18.—Had Mrs. Frank Dennis, of Water Valley, carried out her threat to cut Mrs. Edwin Moore’s head off with a hoe Mrs. Moore would now have been a corpse, but she did not, and Mrs. Moore was alive yesterday, and.cania to Lowell and swore out a warrant for Mrs. Dennis, charging her with threatening to cut oft her head with a hoe and calling her vile names. Deputy Sheriff Jacob Loesch of Shelby, brought the prisoner before Judge Weaver here yesterday morning and she pleaded guilty to the charge and the judge fined her $3.00 and costs. Mrs. Dennis immediately swore out a warrant for Mrs. Mooro and she will be brought to Lowell today to answer to the charge of provoking an assault. It is an old feud between the two women and it breaks out f,resh every once in a while.