Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1909 — BADLY FRIGHTENED PARENTS HUNT FOR MISSING BOYS. [ARTICLE]

BADLY FRIGHTENED PARENTS HUNT FOR MISSING BOYS.

Three Families Frightened When Report Is Started That Youngsters Had Been Drowned. The south section of Rensselaer was in a great lot of excitement for about an hour and a half at noon last Friday. ... _ Chance Jensen, aged 8; Howard Warren, aged 4, and Wayne Tilton, aged 5, being accompanied by a still younger brother of the Jensen boy, had been playing along the river when the younger Jensen boy became separated from the others and returned home. He is a very little tad and having been unable to find his companions he thought they had fallen into the river and he so told his mother. It did not take long for three anxious mothers to begin a search along the river and finding no trace of the boys they soon called up the fathers. Jens Jensen, Prof. I. N. Warren and Reorder J. W. Tilton, and the search was renewed with greater vigor. Not a trace of the boys could be found and preparations were being made to drag the river when at about 1:00 o’clock the lads were found in the grand stand at the ball park, on the opposite side of the river. By that time about the entire south end of town had taken up the search. Women were weeping, and the men were worse frightened than they ever were before in their lives, and the reunion of the little truants with their anxious parents was very pathetic. The parents of the children wish to thank the many neighbors who helped in the search.