Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1915 — SCHOOL TOTS TREE A BEAR [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL TOTS TREE A BEAR

Barking Like Dogs, Six Youngsters ;. Frighten Bruin and Bring About His Death. Six school chllden, the oldest of them aged nine, treed a bear at the Oak Run schoolhouse. During the afternoon recess while the tots were at play, hruin ambled into the school grounds. The children, barking like dogs, took after the bear, who, taking fright, climbed a tree to get out of danger. Miss Vivian Brauer, the teacher, fainted when she saw what the children had done. She called the children into the schoolhouse, locked the door and, womanlike, pulled down the blinds. A few minutes later the bear climbed down the tree and ran into Amos Welch’s field 60 yards farther up the creek. Welch shot and killed the bear. There was a barbecue at the Oak Run schoolhouse Friday afternoon, bear meat being the important item on the menu.—Redding Dispatch to San Francisco Chronicle.