The Red Cloud chief., 1901-08-16
GREEN'S UNEASY GHOST
THE FITTING sPook THAT BROKE
UP AN INDIANA SCHOOL.

various ways In witch tue spirit
Manifested ttssif New Green Came
to Ne I.y0ched.
A special correspondent OF the Chi.
cagO lnter.Occan writes from Flora,
Ind. as follows: There Is one rom.
munity In tLis state where there Is
no dissent m the question ~ 10
whether there arc such things rs
ghosts. Walnut Grove. a village two
miles west Of here. Is the place. and
= o firm Ia the faith Of the residents
there In spooks that they have forced
the school trustees Of the township to
abandon the scloolhOuse that for
years has answered for their needs.
and construct another that will lie
free from the faint NJ being haunted.
For some years the story that ghosts
were common visitors IN the vicinity
Of the walnut Grove schoolhouse have
been current. hut the trustees. who
are hard headed types Of HOLSTERS.
have always refused to give any crc-
dence to the reports. They have lived
In hope that the stories would be for
gotten, and have done all that was In
their power to cast ridicule upou the
rumors. Their course was dictated by
two motives. In the first place, they
did not believe In ghosts. and IN the
second. they had an investment In the
schOolhouse and resented the clrcmla.
ton Of stories that were liable to i'm.
pair It's value aud usefulness.
From the standpoint Of the trustees.
this action on their part was NIL right.
but 1t did not meet with the approval;
OF the parents Of the children who had
to attend the school. When little
johnny Jones aud his sister Sue. for
Instance. came screaming homo to
their mother and told her Of seeing a
man swinging by the neck to a tree In
the Immediate vicinity Of the school
! house. and that the hanging man
amused himself by making ugly faces
at them. II became n matter of mo.
mcnt to the parents. especially as 1T.
? tie Johnny and his sister Sue almost
went into spasms when told TO go TO
school as usual the next day. Tile
story Of Johnny and rs sister had cor
rOboration from other children who at
= tented the school. and finally the par
. cnts began to withdraw their children
y from the place and send them to this
n city or TO some other place to get an
3 education.
' Sometimes the ghost varied his ap'
. pearance. and instead OF hanging from
: the tree. would he seen styOlling along
y the road. his hend very much on one
side, his tongue hanging out OF his
=. mouth. and an expression Of indcscrib
," able agony on his face. The children
:. said that they would no more than sc,
u glimpse of him when he would disap
u pear In the most u~naccountable man
u ner. The ghost would be walking oil
: the road where there was not an oh
Ie Ject 10 afford him cOncealment, when
" presto! lie would he gone.
|" The children and the parents sal,
- that 1t was Amer Green's ghost. Th,
school trustees said "Addlcsticks,' bu
'. the parents stuck to their belief ant
u accumulated 1t by Withdrawing tlieil
!. children from the school. At the las
!, term OF The school, the ono that In.
4 Just closed, there were olly two sclOl
: ars. and at its termination the teacher
: told the trustees that she could not on
" dure the life at the schctl for another
'" term. and must leave. The trustees
" tried to get a teacher to take the
20 school for the fall term. but it's fame
:, as a ghOst-hauntcd place had become
. noised abroad. and the quest OF the
y trustees was unsuccessful. In view
= OF this faet. aud In difference 10 til,
!, wishes Of the taxpayers the trustee!
= have awarded the contracts for th'
,. erection Of another schoOlhOuse In lie,
Of the old one. II will have another
I. site. and the hcpc Is that the ghost o.
=. Amer Grcea will not In future bothcI
I. the childrca :ud interrupt their edu
!, cation.
~ last term, as well as the change o
heart on the part of the trustees. wa,
n largely due I, the apparitiOn that an
n, peared TO DIR. Budford Karns of thi
n. city one night last fall. DR.. Harms (.
a not an emotional man. and his repu
"a tation for truth and veracity are IN
ro questioned. The doctor had bee
In making a professional call In the Wal
n nut Grove neighCorho0d on the nigh
~ OF November 20, and had to pass tn,
n vicinity OF the sch00lhOusc OF his wa.
home. Willis passing a grove o
trees near the schoolhOusc he saw tn
m body of n nan hanging from Il liml
"a and swaylng back ana forth. Whel
IN the doctor told Of what he had seeI
VI the next Gay II settled the matter, an,
~ the fate OF the old schoOlhousc wa
,h assured.
While there has rot been anything
ea new discovered 20 account for the M
va pearance CT the ghost CT the uncarthl.
n DISCS that have terrified the childrel
,s at school. there IL only one belief OF
the subject. ana that Is that The un
canny object IL the ghost OF Anne
Green. On n walnut tree In the vi
cinity Of the schoolhouse some year
ago Amer Green was strung up b!
rn lynch law and his body left hanging
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