Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1910 — Curfew Will Ring for These Boys Until December 23d. [ARTICLE]

Curfew Will Ring for These Boys Until December 23d.

Bad practices sometimes continue for a long time undetected, but when perpetrators are discovered they are certain to fall for all the blame. Thus it occurred that Don Wright, Howard Clark and Sam Duvall were held responsible for the piling up of all the school books of the freshmen, sophomore and junior classes one night last week. At various times for five years or more this mixing up of the school books has occurred. During the night some one or more boys would enter the building and take all the books from all the desks and throw them in a heap, and about half of the next day would be taken up in getting the books back into the hands of the owners. There was trouble brewing for the first set! of boys upon whom the responsibility could be fixed, and last week when the deed was perpetrated, Superintendent Warren set about to locate the culprits. It did not take long and when confronted with the accusation the three® boys above named acknowledged the commission of the deed. The punishment was taken under advisement until this Tuesday morning when it was decided to mete out the following punishment. The boys are to be restrained from appearing on the streets after 6 o’clock in the evening from the present time until December 23, that is, if they remain in school, while failure to abide by the ruling will result in suspension. The schooi board decided that the apparently severe punishment was necessary to serve as a check on the very annoying occurrences of the past several years.