Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1911 — Barbaric Custom Must Be Stopped by Boys. [ARTICLE]

Barbaric Custom Must Be Stopped by Boys.

The custom of raising h— at class parties by some of the pc pits in the city schools, trying to swipe the refreshments and making a body guard necessary to save the refreshments and protect life and limb, has been given a little backset. Friday night there was a party at Dr. Hansson’s for the Seventh Grade pupils. The marshal and nightwatch saved the refreshments by keeping a close watch about the premises, but, aping the maneuvers of the long-haired college idiots, the culprits lay for the boys and girls as they left the Hansson home and sheared the heads of Jud Michaels. Devere Zea and Harry Moore. They also cut a curl from the head of one.little girl. Chet Zea, father of the Zea boy, filed an affidavit against Wm. Eiglesbach, Roy Kupkey, Orval Gant and Walker, and they were arraigned before Squire Bruner, but all being under 16 years of age the latter turned them over to the Juvenile Court, and they will be dealt with by Judge Hanley. The officers are determined to break up this dastardly custom, and if the parents will not sist by using a barrel stave where it will do the most good, they will have to go into court and pay the fines.