Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1908 — More Drunks. [ARTICLE]

More Drunks.

Remington Press: Ira Cheek, who has been getting intoxicated with more than customary frequency of late, became very abwsive to his father Monday who called marshall Hollenback to arrest h*™, bat Ira picked op a long butcher knife and run the marshal out of the shoo, and skipped out of the back door. The marshal called on Lex Fisher and Ssm May to help him and they sooa landed him in the cooler. Tuesday in answer to the charge of drunkenness and resisting an officer he was fined and costed him to the amount ol $58.50 and is now in Jail at Rensselaer laying out his fine. Ira is * bright and genial young man if be could be reclaimed from the power of appetite, but when under tbe influence of liquor he is a dangerous character. Tuesday James O'Connor came in on the evening train drunk and noiay and nightwatch Holland soon had himin tow at the Hotel-de-Cooler. Wednesday morning Squire HemphiU thought about $lO and costs would suit his case and he was taken to Rensselaer to board awhile with Sheri® O’Connor.