Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1912 — Cedar Lake Girl Ran Away; Returned Home Same Day. [ARTICLE]
Cedar Lake Girl Ran Away; Returned Home Same Day.
Bessie Ashton, 15 years of age, ran away from her home at Cedar Lake, because she did not want to go to school. She Went to Hammond on the milk train Tuesday morning. Her parents soon learned'that she was not in school and started Sheriff Grant in search of hier. She was found during the afternoon at the Monon station in Hammond with a ticket foi r her return to Cedar Lake. She said she had seen, enough of the world and was ready to go back home and to school.
