Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1907 — BOOZE CAUSES LOTS OF TROUBLE [ARTICLE]

BOOZE CAUSES LOTS OF TROUBLE

towns of Monon and Rose Lawn each bring tales of the woe of booze, and while a citizen of Rose Lawn lies at the Makeever House fightning off imaginary snakes and bull dogs, a bunch of young fellows at Monon are nursing sore heads as the result of a fight at Rose’s saloon there Saturday night. L. P. Gore, of Rose Lawn, is a former traveling man and conducts a store there that belongs to his wife. &h€i!s a good and sensible business women and when sober he is a very good merchant but about four times a year he goes off on a spree and then raises cain generally. This —time hie—good- —wife thought to interrupt his spasm of dissipation "by taking from his pocket a bottle of Hunter whiskey but Gore slapped her in the face with such force that he knocked her down. She caused his arrest and Squire Boswinkle deemed the act too dastardly to be dealt with by a fine and so he bound Gore over to the circuit court in the sum of SSOO. No one wanted to let Gore out so Deputy Sheriff Richards of Rose Lawn, brought him to Rensselaer, but could not proem e his admission to the jail because of a defective document of commitment, so Richards took him to the Makeever House, where he soon developed a case of snakes, which between snakes and bulldogs exhibit the stern face of Squire Boswinkle. Mrs. Gore came down on the 10;55 train today and Gore will probably be released by her signing [the bond, which shows the variable moods ot a good woman, but he is to sick to be re - moved from the hotel. At Monon \Saturday night the Rose Bros.’ was the scene of two or three liVefyCßcraps. Several young men were lounging about the place when a young man named Ogden entered and ordered a drink. The boys all signified their willingness to drink with him but Ogden said he didn’t have the money. Various insulting remarks are said to have occurred, and finally Ogden struck one of the youog fellows and then Rose-and Big Jim, the bar tender, and the s eeper of an adjoining pool room trebled up on Ogden and threw him out. Rose is said to have been tolerably full, but the good moral character of saloon keepers may have eased up a trifle in Monon since it was decided over there to banish them by remonstrance, and they may not quite come up to the high ideal required of a new applicant. After a time Ogden returned to the saloon, being reinforced with several friends he had met at Cockerell’s place. Rose at once asked him if he had not thrown him out once and Ogden said that he couldn’t do it agaiu. Rose came around from behind the bar and Ogden knocked him dow'n. Then Big Jim. the bar tender, reoeri ert a similar dose from Ogden, and then the pool room keeper entered and some one hit Ogden over the right eye with a pool ball and some one else hit him in the jaw and floored him. It was an eight or ten cornered fight with plenty of booze to urge it along. The parties are said to have met near the depot and had anotuer scrap later at night. It is mighty nice for Rensselaer to be a temperance town where these brawls do not take place.