Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1910 — SCHOOL TROUBLES AT GOODLAND. [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL TROUBLES AT GOODLAND.

Goodland is having all kinds of trouble in her schools nowadays. A boy by the name of Kennel, whose father is a blacksmith, was punished for disobe dience, by Mr. White, the music and drawing teacher, more severely than the circumstances warranted, the boy says. The boy’s father gave White a drubbing on the street, and when Frank Pierce, a druggist, at tempted to pacify the irate blacksmith, he, too, was knocked down. Kennel was arrested and fined $lO and costs in the former case but acquitted. in the latter. A S3OO damage case has been filed against White in the Newton circuit dourt, and he has also been arrested for alleged badly beating and kicking the boy. Owing to a division in sentiment, White has resigned his position in the schools, for which he had been employed for another year, and the fracas has made lots of ill feeling.