Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1915 — Kenneth Elder Found at Hammond and Returned Home. [ARTICLE]

Kenneth Elder Found at Hammond and Returned Home.

Little Kenneth Elder, son of Mrs. Charles Elder, of Parr, who disappeared from his home Monday noon, was found by police officers in. Hammond Tuesday and returned to his home that evening on the milk train. It seems that he and two other small boys of Parr had entered a house there and taken a purse containing about $3 and then lost the money by playing slot machines in Parr. It is said that considerable criticism has been made about the slot machines prior to this time and that they exist in violation of law and it is probable that they will be looked after by the proper authorities. After losing the money Kenneth thought it was unsafe for him to remain about town and he had walked to Fair Oaks and there boarded a freight train and bummed to Thayer. At Thayer he begged a ride with totirist automobilists to Hammond, where the police picked him up. He is a very small boy for 11 years of age and is the most youthful boy tramp that has been started out from Jasper county. Kenneth is a fairly bright little boy, but he had adopted practices while here that Showed him not to be Strictly honest and for his own good it would be a very proper action to send him to the reform school if he again develops any dishonesty. And it will be a very proper thing for* officers to ascertain whether the slot machines operating in Parr are prohibitable and if they are they should be put out of business in short order. “We Print Anything for Anybody.”