Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1919 — RECLINING IN THE HOOSGOW [ARTICLE]

RECLINING IN THE HOOSGOW

Ed Gilmore Matched Pennies; Re- • reived Stiff Fine Monday. •Ed Gilmore, formerly of Parr, who recently purchased the Jacks barber shop, waa fined 125 and costs and given a 10-day jail sentence by Mayor C. G. Spitler Monday on the charge of gambling, it being alleged that be was seen matching pennies with some boys in front of his barber shop on Washington street. Gilmore paid the fine and is said to have offered to pay >25 more if the mayor would suspend the jail sentence; saying that he had a business here* to look after which would suffer by his incarceration in jail. The mayor was obdurate, however, and Insisted on the jail sentence being served, and Gilmore is now In the county bastile. Friends of Mr. Gilmore Insist that the penalty Imposed Is unjustly severe and Is most surprising In view of Mr. Spitler's former attitude of a few years ago when he said that "the boys must get their eye-teeth cut some time and it might as well be now,” In endorsing the open gambling at a carnival held In Rensselaer.