Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1912 — COURT SEES ‘GRIZZLY’ DANCE [ARTICLE]

COURT SEES ‘GRIZZLY’ DANCE

Assistant City Attorney of Minneapolis Gives Terplschersan Illustration and Convinces Judge. Minneapolis.—W. G. Compton, assistant city attorney, danced the “grixsly bear” in Municipal court here to show Judge C. L. Smith just how it was done. With his arm over the shoulders of a bystander, he swayed rhythmically from side to side, to the strains of the San Francisco tune, and, according to police witnesses, gave a fair imitation of how it was

being done in a local dance hall when two girls were arrested for dancing the “griszly bear.” The Judge decid. ed that the dance was "disorderly and ordered the two girls to promise to r main away from dance halls in the ftK tore and report regularly to the police matron. j