Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1911 — Boys Pushed Over Gasoline Tank Entailing Loss of $15. [ARTICLE]

Boys Pushed Over Gasoline Tank Entailing Loss of $15.

Thoughtless boys out on a prank hallowe’en turned over a gasoline tank and an oil tank at Ed Duvall’s livery barn, spilling the contents and causing a loss of about sls. Mr. Duvall was able to procure tfie names of several of the lads and he rightly took steps to make them settle for their destructive sport. They are said to be making arrangements to pay in full lor the loss he sustained. There were a great lot of .boys out Tuesday night and for the most part their pranks were harmless. They brought the band wagon and a number of other vehicles to the town bridge and obstructed the bridge and •just about the time'they had finished the job Marshal Mustard nabbed several of the boys and made them clean it up, restorings everything / to the place they found it. Gates were missing from several lawn fences, porch furniture was carried away and wagons and buggies moved away, causin; their owners some trouble in getting them back home. The tendency was for the most part not very destructive.