Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1914 — GIRL PREFERS TO PLOUGH [ARTICLE]

GIRL PREFERS TO PLOUGH

Daughter of Wealthy California Farmer Tells-Humane Society Officer Not to Bother Her.

San Jose, Cal. —Ploughing is no harder than playing basket ball, in the opinion of Miss Dora Clay, daughter of Alexander Clay, a wealthy orchardist living on the Fremont road. She so informed officers of the juvenile court and humane officers of this city, who have been requested by the Clay neighbors to Investigate whether or not the girl is being cruelly forced to do heavy manual labor in her father’s orchard. Mrs. I. C. Merriman was detailed to Investigate reports and visited the Clay ranch. .The girl was in town at the time, but Clay was at home and stated that if more girls were raised as his girl was being reared there would be fewer Cases of them being ruined in the restaurants of San Jose. Later Mrs. Clay and her daughter, who is a* pretty, robust girl of sixteen, visited the probation officer and also called on Dr. J. W. Davy of the Humane association. Miss Clay stated that she was ploughing in the orchard of her own volition and fe)t sure that the work was no more difficult than, basket ball. Mrs. Merriman took the stand, however, that such work was Injurious to a sixteen-year-old girl and threatened to, take the case ihto court and have it tried before a jury of women.