Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1906 — WAS IT A JOKE? [ARTICLE]

WAS IT A JOKE?

Two of the high school boys who were mixed up in the late defacing of the school building went up to Shelby Sunday with an empty suit case, aud a telephone message from there to officers here stated that they were coming back on the milk train with the suit case full of beer. An investigation of the case on their stepping from the train showed that it was empty, and tbe boys then stated that tbe whole affair was planned as a joke on Lyman Zea, but others think they were appraised of a lookout being kept for their arrival here and that they made some disposition of the bottles of beer before reaching town. It would hardly seem that they would go to.all this expense and trouble to play such a questionable “joke.”