Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1915 — Parent Says Children Got Lice at School. [ARTICLE]

Parent Says Children Got Lice at School.

James Davis, a poor man living at Tefft, has made a novel defense to Truant Officer Steward for his failure to send his children to school. He has been causing some trouble and Mr. Steward went to Tefft this Wednesday morning to try to straighten things out. •Davis wrote to Mr. Steward saying that he was a poor man and had been imposed on. He said that five times he had cleaned his children up and started them to school and* each time they had caught lice and brought them home and that he did not intend to put up with it again and had taken his children out of school. Davis did not say whether the lice were contracted from the other pupils or how the children got them but he was sure they were secured at the schoo Ihouse. Mr. Steward proposes to urge that the children clean up once more and. start to school. Davis is reported to have made threats as to what he would do if the truant officer came there to try to compel his children to enter school.