Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1904 — Phenomenal Farm Ha[?]d Fined A Five. [ARTICLE]

Phenomenal Farm Ha[?]d Fined A Five.

George Duggins, whose phenomenal excellence as a farm hand, as well as his equaPy phenomenal proclivity to an occasional monumental booze, are both now proverbial, was on a big drunk here again. Saturday. He was warned in the afternoon by the Marshal to get out of town, before he got any worse, and Duggins promised to dig but instead he kept out of sight, and late at night was found in an alley, near the saloons, helplessly intoxicated. Officers Dillon and Vick conveyed him to the jail, and 1:30 pm. Saturday, he was before Squire Irwin on the charge of drunk in a public place He p'ead guilty and was fined $5 and costs, or $17.40 in all It is the third time in no very long t'ine that he h*s been fined a like amount on the teame change.