Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1911 — SCHOOL PATRONS BRING SUIT AGAINST ED LANE. [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL PATRONS BRING SUIT AGAINST ED LANE.

Jay W. Stockton and Everet Greenlee Ask Pay for Taking Their Children to School. Two suits were recently filed against Edward Lane, trustee of Newton township, seeking to secure payment for hauling the children of the plaintiffs to district schools.

One action is brought J»y Jay W. Stockton in the name of the State and is directed against Lane as trustee and his bondsmen, Jos. E. Thomas, D. S. Makeever, Jos. Lane and James Lane.

The plaintiff sets out that h<? resided with his family in scohol district No; 1 and that the school in that district was discontinued and that his three children were transferred to district No. 4. He sets forth that Trustee Lane asked an appropriation from his advisory board of SSOO for hauling children, ten in number, to schools remote from their homes; that be resided 1% miles from the school where his children were assigned and that the SSOO appropriated was sufficient, if bandied economically to have taken all the children. He states that the trustee neglected and refused to provide a means for hauling his children and that he was compelled to provide means himself; that to do so required him to keep an extra horse and buggy and an extra man to do the driving, and that he should be reimbursed in the sum of $250 and attorney fees. Everet Greenlee brings a similar action, but brings his ->action against Newtcgi school township instead of against the trustee personally. He alleges similar failure on the part of the trustee to provide means of travel for his two children and states that he was compelled to provide means himself through part of the 1903 school year and through all of the 1910 school year. He asks pay for 226 days amounting to $339.

Mr. Stockton states that he can show some rank partiality in the mat ter of treatment accorded different school patrons and will show that In one case the trustee allowed a patron for taking his own children when the wagon went directly by his door and that in another case the trustee refused to allow children to ride in the paid wagon, although the wagon did go by the door. Don’t believe us. We might lie. Come in and judge for yourself. Buy a pair. Wear them. Then tell your friends that we do sell better shoes for less money than else in the county. VanArsdeTk