Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1908 — Took Insane Man to Asylum. [ARTICLE]

Took Insane Man to Asylum.

Deputy Sheriff Joe O’Connor took Arthur Goff, of Fair Oaks, to tbe insane asylum at Longcliffe Monday. Arthur is about 23 years of age and is the son of Frank Goff, well known in this county. It is said that about four years ago Arthur and three other boys got hold of a barrel that had contained whiskey and they found that there were still some dregs In the bottom of it and they drank it The dr.gs evidently contained the settling* of the drugs used in the distilling of the whiskey and all four of the boys were thrown into convulsions, and f r a time it was thought all would die. Finally, however, all recovered save Arthur Goff, who was net very strong physically and his mental decline Is said to date from that time. He was not a bad young man, and his mental condition is a great misfortune. He was declared insane at an inquest held before Squire Irwin last Friday. -Trjr our straight Buckwheat flour, self-rising pancake and buckwheat flour and maple syrup.

JOHN EGER.