Creation Date

1923
1935

Description

Photograph of the first mixed jury in Pope County. Jury members left to right - back row: Anna (Mrs. C.J.) Dahlquist, E. E. Barsness, Josie Flaten, Carl Ettesvold, Bertina (Mrs. Gilbert) Moen, Pearl Voss. Front Row: J. L. McLaury, Katherine (Mrs. Thomas) Callaghan, B. K. Savre, George Hershman.

From the Glenwood Herald, November 1, 1923:
Case Tried Before the First Mixed Jury
Five Men and Five Women Decide Case and Have Pictures Taken.
"The first mixed jury to be drawn in Pope county served last Thursday on a case before Justice Griffith. It was a case of McCauley vs. Perkins. There were five women and five men on the jury.
The attorneys in the case were County Attorney E. R. Selnes and Frank Zima. Mr. Selnes represented Mr. McCauley and Mr. Zima represented Mr. Perkins. The taking of testimony took about two hours and the case was given to the jury at about five o'clock. They rendered their decision for the plaintiff at about eight o'clock.
The members of this first mixed jury in the county were Mrs. A. Dalquist, Mrs. T. Callaghan, Mrs. G. H. Moen, Miss Josie Flaten and Miss Pearl Voss. The men on the jury were Ed Barsness, C. O. Ettesvold, J. L. McLaury, B. K. Savre and Geo. Hershman. They took supper together at the Rogers Hotel and were in charge of A. H. Olson and Cora Gilbertson as bailiffs.
The next morning the members of the jury went to the Voss Studio and had their pictures taken together."