Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1908 — Soldiers Defected. [ARTICLE]

Soldiers Defected.

The High School five turned the tables on the militia quintet and put the kibosh on their champion ship aspirations. The evening before the protectors of onr government defeated the defenders of theory that the pen is mighter than the sword, to the tune of 32 to 16, and the militia rejoiced while the high school determined to do them, and yesterday evening they sent f them down to inglorious defeat, 31 to! 11. Truly pride goeth before a fall.