Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1919 — 43 PUPILS EXPELLED FOR ARMISTICE DAY ACTIONS. [ARTICLE]

43 PUPILS EXPELLED FOR ARMISTICE DAY ACTIONS.

Lowell, Ind., Nov. 14.—This little city is seething with excitement over the expelling of forty-three students from the Lowell high school because of their participation in an impromptu Armistice day celebration after Supt. Clark had refused to grant them a holiday. The students took the holiday 'willy-nilly and thereby hangs a tale, i Lowell did not celebrate Armistice day and the high school pupils to the number of a hundred felt pretty sore when the faculty denied their petition for a celebration. , — r At 11 -PO n’clnrk when the whistles begantoblow,a-Spiritaofunrest and revolt filled the school. Air the - beginning of the afternoon session fifty out of the hundred and some students took matters upon themselves and went on strike. They paraded up and down the downtown streets, gave yells, sang and cheerfully waved the American flag. Meeting members of the faculty the students followed them and yelled “Bolshevists” at them and displayed a red flag. After the celebration the teachers refused to teach unless the youngsters were punished. The* board of trustees of the high school and the । teachers, together wtih County Su- , perintendent F. F. Heighway, held a meeting Tuesday night to determIw what to de with the forty-three ■students who played “hookey” Tues--1 day afternoon and went to the ! school house and later disturbed the school. , • What they decided to do was kept a secret until yesterday morning when the pupils were all called to the assembly room and were told by Superintendent Clark that they were all expelled from school and could only get back when they carne with one of their parents to the school house and the parent signed an agreement that such a thing would not happen again. About half, of the pupils returned to school yesterday afternoon and the balance were expected to return t 0 Todav there are rumors that the end is not yet and it is reported that the basketball and all athletics will be put under the ban and that ithe high school may lose its commission. There is a good deal . excitement in town over the affair and there are plenty of citizens who side with the pupils.