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Show SCHOOL BOYS SAID TO HAVE BEEN DRUNK Eddie Wells and Willie Buchanan. 13 and 14 years old, respectively, were arretted ar-retted Wednesday afternoon by Patrolman Patrol-man Chalrles Sperry, truant oflicer, on charges of truancy. The boys are alleged to have remained away from school Tuesday, and to have purchMicd from a downtown liquor dealer a bottle of wine. On Wie way to school they are alleged to hare consumed the wine. Then, it Is said, f.hey smashed the empty butllo on the scSoolhouse steps, and went Into their classrftim In a state of grom Intoxication. The principal of the school was notitled bv tlA teacher of the room, and he In turn rtlned the police department. The boys ere then sent to their homes, where they were found by the truant po-llcemru po-llcemru Wednesday afternoon. As f result, a complaint was sworn to WednSdav afternoon charging the propriety pro-priety of the Sadler Mercantile company com-pany "Vltli selling ll(Uor to minors. It be-I be-I Ing af'-eged that the boys procured their liquor at that establishment. The members of that hrm dec lare that they '"now nothing of the matter, and that, b far as they l:now. no llUor was soid t the boys in that establishment. |