Ripped From The (1924) Headlines: Sunday school teachers peeved at ban on dancing

ALBION. Mich. - (By A.P.) A Sunday school with half of its teachers missing is the prospect for the coming Sunday at the First Presbyterian Church as the result of a statement by Carl Werner, superintendent of the school, on the question of approval of dancing in the high school.

Addressing the combined school last Sunday, Werner is alleged to have declared he wanted no teachers nor officers in the school who approve of high school dancing or other such "worldly amusements."

"If necessary, we can conduct the Sunday school with two or three teachers," Werner is said to have added.

Several teachers arose to their feet and protested the stand taken by Werner, but he stood pat and insisted that no teacher who approved of dancing would be allowed to continue to teach.

Five or six teachers of classes of young people claim that in view of Werner's determined stand, there is nothing left for them to do but to quit their posts under protest. Just how far the split will extend Is uncertain, since the officials of the church as yet have given no recognition to the rupture. — Wednesday, March 26, 1924

A cat, about whom little was known except that it was the possessor of a very loud voice, climbed into a tree in the 800 block of Chicago Avenue last Wednesday. Since that time, the feline stuck to his chosen perch and refused to descend to earth, much to the annoyance of nearby residents who were kept awake by his nightly yowlings. When the cat still refused descend Sunday, the police department was notified. A well-directed shot by Detective Hylie Hamilton brought the troublesome cat down. "The operation was a success, but the patient died." he reported. — Monday, March 10, 1924

Robin Hood, the altruistic robber who stole from the rich to give to the needy, was brought to mind Monday night when Dean Kruse, 818 Jerome Street, and Clayton Church, 305 N. Pennsylvania Avenue, were arrested on charges of simple larceny.

A patrolman is said to have apprehended the pair walking down a railroad track in the south part of the city, carrying a sack of coal. Police say they admitted taking the coal from the Reo Motor Car Co. pile at the foot of Garden Street, and that they claimed they were taking it to a woman who was without fuel. The men gave as another reason for their benevolence that their lady friends roomed at the fuel-less house. — Tuesday, March 11, 1924

Instructions were issued Wednesday morning from the offices of Mayor Alfred Doughty ordering the department of public works to close S. Cedar Street to traffic, between Mt. Hope Avenue and Greenlawn Avenue.

The road here has become practically impassable. The condition is such that the cost of upkeep under present weather conditions would be too great to warrant a continuance of use of the street.

S. Cedar street, from Mt. Hope Avenue south to Greenlawn Avenue was torn up last year when a trunkline sewer was laid there.

The routes for detour were to be marked by the public works department Wednesday afternoon and red lights placed along the detour route to mark the turning points for night travel. — Wednesday, March 26, 1924

Officers Thursday were trailing eight boys who escaped from the Michigan Industrial School for Boys Wednesday night and who are believed to have stolen two automobiles in their flight in addition to breaking into the high school at Mason.

The boys were barefooted when they got away from the state school. it was said.

They are believed to have stolen an auto owned by E. M. Higgs, East Lansing, in which they rode to a point a mile north of Mason, where the car was ditched.

The Mason High school was broken into Wednesday night and attempts made to open the safe. The safe was battered but was not opened. The boys are suspected of having rifled the desks in the school, stealing some small change.

After the school break-in, the trail of the suspected state school inmates led to the residence of Kenneth Franklin in Mason, where another car was stolen, in which the boys are believed to have made their getaway. — Thursday, March 27, 1924

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