Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1911 — MONKEY INVADES A SCHOOL [ARTICLE]

MONKEY INVADES A SCHOOL

Escaped Simian Takes Possession of Room and Has Much Fun Before Captured by Student. Portland, Ore. —Escaping from his cage at the Seven Mlle house, on the Section Line road, a monkey ran amuck, made his way to the Buckley school house, located a short distance east, and took- possession of the school, ousting the teacher and frightening the pupils. - The simian hopped from bench to bench, then back to the desk of the pretty school ma’am, who had retreated to a safe place, the intruder thoroughly enjoying his freedom, much to the alarm of the children. After disporting about the room for several minutes, the monkey dropped into the drinking bucket, full of water. The cold bath, most unexpected, did not halt the animal in his search for entertainment Emerging from the bucket almost as, quickly as he had dropped into it, he took a Straight cut across the room over the heads of the pupils. Finally one of. the boys, braver than the others, caught the animal after a hard struggle, placed it in a sack and restored it to its home, but Mr. Monkey had created such a disturbance that the rest of the lessons for the day in the Buckley school house were called off.