Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1920 — STIRRING TIMES UP UNION TOWNSHIP WAY [ARTICLE]

STIRRING TIMES UP UNION TOWNSHIP WAY

It is said that the serenity of Union township has been badly shaken up during the past week, and that the citizens of that thriving township have found plenty of excitement to keep the blood circulating swiftly through their veins. According to our informant, a basket ball game at Fair Oaks last Saturday night ended up in a free for all fracas. The Reynolds high school team had been scheduled to meet the Fair Oaks five, but failed to put in an appearance. In order that the fans might not be disappointed, a game was arranged between the high school team and some of the town boys. Soon after the start it is said that ill feeling between the teams cropped out and in a short time that th€ players turned from their labors of trying to place the ball through the net to smacking some member of the other team with their fists. The affair did not last long, but was a dandy while it did. Earlier in the week, the story goes ,a prominent farmer living in the vicinity of Parr Was assaulted by another farmer for informing the township trustee and the county truant officer of the failure of the latter to send his children to school. It is understood that the trouble is not yet ended and that other citizens have taken the matter up with the school authorities, and that the man in question will have to show cause for his neglect in not sending his children to school or be punished.