The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-28
JED TREATED!
Our Intelligent School Teacher
.Wassent a Going to Give the
SkOIIars Of the BingViIIe School
Emmy Treat This Xmas, but He
Seen the Error of His Way &
Changed His Mind About 1t
PartickIerS as Per Below

led Peters. our intelligent school
teacher. has experients last Tuesday
| eve lest after he dismist school for the
holidays which Jed will not likely. Tor
git for some time to come. and the
memry of which same will like as not
rankle in his craw the longest day he
lives.
Ever sinst Jed has teached the Bing--
Vile school. which has been several
yrs, being as Jed has learnt B1ngvllle
bows & girls nolledge for quite long
time. having been elecl1ted from yr to
vr becuz he a1lus give satisfackshion
both to the parents & the skollers also
when they needd a thrash1n-well,
ever sinst Jed has been teacher in
Bingvil1e he has allus give a Xmas
treat to the skollers.
It seems that this custum has become
kind of monotonous to Jed, and so this
vr he desided that he wouldn't treat. He
diddent say nothink to the skollars about
it, but he told it down to Hen Weath-
ersby's store one evg recent and the
news spread like wildfre and caused
good cal of indignation. espeshially on
the part of the skollars.
led said he was sick & tired of treat
ing the skollars of the Bingv1lle school
to a bag of candy every Xmas, being as
enuff bags for all cost him nearly 81,
and that this yr times was so hard q
that financhial stringency had set in to
SIGH a extent that he couldn't afford to
treat and therefore wouldn't.
When the skollars heerd this they
could hardly believe it. They thort Jed
would probably change his mind at the
last ninnit and so they lived in hope &
a bag of candy at the last minnit.
SIGH, however, didn't prove to be the
case, being as on last Tuesday after
non at a p. m. prompt, Jed, jest before
he dis1nisd school made short speech
to the effeckt that the school would be
closed until after New Yrs and in con-
clooshion he wished all Merry Xmas
& Happy New Yr.
The skollars went out and all assem-
bled behint the school house where Jed
couldn't see EN-, being as there amt no
winders on that side, where they belt a
indignation meeting and desided that
a Merry Xmas & a Happy New Yr was
a turrible poor substytoot for a bag of
candy.
Meantime Jed was sweeping out the
schoolhouse and whissling away as hap
py as you please, probably becuz he cal
ki1ated he had saved nearly s.. After
he got swep out Jed come outen the
schoo1house, locked the door behint him
and started off home.
He haddent got moren a rod from
the schoolhouse door before all the
skol1ars of the Bingville school snuk up
behint him and jumpd on him bodily,
throwing him down into the snow and
watering him around turrible rough
Jed, he hollerd for help, but Sam Nc
Crackin, who is 10 yrs old and turrible
strong for his age, claped his hand over
Jed's mouth and told him to shut up or
he'd bleed his nose for him. Jimmy
Wilkins held Jed's legs and Tommy
Barker held one arm & Willie Sykes
tother. Susie E1ilyer & Mary Peters and
Agatha Dewberry rubbed snow into
Jed's Ease & eyes until he was almost
suffocated
Sam KEEP asking Jed if he was going