Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1901 — A Young Smarty Got Too Smart. [ARTICLE]

A Young Smarty Got Too Smart.

The town of Parr is above par these days in amount of attention given to its citizens in the justices’ courts. A case from there was tried here before Squire Troxell, Thursday evening. On July Bth, Wm. Bierly, commonly called Barley, a young fellow who lives near Parr, went into the place and invited “the boys” to join him in s a big toot in celebration of having just attained his 21st birthday. The boys joined him all right, and the Parr saloon keeper, J. H. Conway, trusting to the young man’s representations, freely sold him liquor. It developed later that the boy was still r under age, and Conway is now awaiting trial for selling liquor to a minor. But while the law is hard on the salooniet, who sells to a minor, even when the latter misrepresents his age, it bears down equally hard on the minor who makes such false representations. Hence - Barley got thrashed by the flail of the law Thursday evening. He plead guilty and the squire assessed the • minimum fine of HO and costs. The entire bill, including fine and costs, was $23.40, but the Squire suspended half of the fine, during good behavior, reducing the total to $18.40. This he paid. Some of the boys around Rensselaer who play this same game On the guileiemt Malooniata, take Earning from this case, be up against a similar circumstance.