Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1904 — BOYS THAT KNOW BEANS. [ARTICLE]

BOYS THAT KNOW BEANS.

A bunoh of high school bays “know beane” now if they never did before. They went to the eobool bouse Monday night to give buildings and grounds a touching np &of Halloween observances. Janitor Hopkins had it borne iu upon his inner consciousness, from the reoolleotion of his own sibool days perhaps, chat the boys would be apt to revisit the temple of learning during the still watches of Halloween night, and he was laying for them with a shot gun loaded with beana, and with that be let drive at the bogrs. One of the boys was hit under the eye another on the sent of leanrog and still another on some ether portion of bis frame. The bote git oat of jthere mighty fa*t a>'d got out to atay out.