Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1913 — BOYS INDULGED IN PUBLIC EGG-THROWING [ARTICLE]

BOYS INDULGED IN PUBLIC EGG-THROWING

Fruit Missed Those Aimed At And Ruined Girl’s Dress.—Spanking A Needed Treatise. An egg-throwing combat between some town boys during the progress of the band concert Thursday evening may result in getting some youths in trouble. The boys who engaged in it are splendid young fellows and their act was marked by the greatest abandon of thoughtfulness and discretion. From what The Republican is able to learn two boys put on some false faces and were parading the street wheh some other boys pelted them with eggs. They procured some over-ripe hen fruit and returned the fire, but their marksmanship was poor and the eggs spattered about the sidewalk and coping on the west side of the courthouse and several received spots on their dresses. The most serkhisly damaged was Miss Sabina Hart, who is visiting the family of Joe Davisson. She is employed in the Hammond telephone office. Miss Hart’s dress, a brand new one, was so terribly spotted with the egg that it could not be cleaned and is practically ruined. The damage is placed at sl2. Mr. Davisson’s daughter also received several spots on her dress from the same egg. It is probable that the responsibility will be placed on the lads and that they will be required to make good the damage to Miss Hart, which will be letting them off quite easy.