Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1902 — Just a Drunken Row. [ARTICLE]

Just a Drunken Row.

H. Clifford Wood, a feather renovator man, and H. Courtridge Cook, an oil man whose headquarters are near Medaryville, were celebrating last Friday. Cook took Wood to supper and then Wood invited Cook to have a drink on him. As they both bad enough to drink the bartender refused to sell to them. Wood claimed to think that the bar tender’s refusal was caused by lack of funds and borrowed a bill from Cook. Cook claimed it wns a $lO bill but when Wood went to return it it had shrunk to a dollar bill, and in the dispute that followed the feather man used some harsh language and Cook had him arrested for provoke, and Squire Burnham assessed a fine and costs of $13.40, which he paid after laying in jail until Sunday. Ed Moon, a friend of the feather man, then had Cook arrested for being drunk, and the oil man paid $11.90 in the same court for his infraction of the law.