Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1918 — By Twists Teacher's Words. [ARTICLE]

By Twists Teacher's Words.

A Greencastle young woman teacher in the Peru (Ind.) high school a few days ago had a vision of her job leaving because of a violent protest lodged against her by a patron. The teachers were at a meeting when the protest came up. The patron accused the teacher of calling her boj» “a scurvy elephant” The teacher was dumfounded when she heard the charge, and could not recall making any such remark. The corps of teachers went to work to attempt to unravel the mystery. Finally it was solved. The teacher had told the boy “He was a disturbing element” and the boy mistook what she said for “A scurvy elephant”—lndianapolis Newt,