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Show ' i i i NO CLOTHES TO WEAR TO SCHOOL Father Explains to Court Why His Son Did Not Attend At-tend the Jordan District School Yesterday. "Some time by children did not it-i it-i tend school because they did not have , the clothes," declared Daniel Densley I in Jndgs Armstrong's court this morn-ling morn-ling in explaining the absence of his 1 children from, school in the Jordan j school -district. "The school Is always laughing at my son John because he 'did Siot have good clothes." ; , Densley was before the court to ex-i ex-i plain the absence from school of Ivy iand John Densley. The latter has at-) at-) tended but forty days during the year ' iand the girl not at all. The girl, he , said, was over the school age. The ! father was ordered to have the chil-jdren chil-jdren -before the court at 10 o'clock Friday Fri-day morning. This wss but one of a number of ; cases against parents brought before .Judge Armstrong this morning by Thomas Vawdrey, truant officer for the 'Jordan school district. The court ordered Mrs. Ellen Jones to send her two children, Elizabeth and Owen Jones, to school and see that they stayed there, y . -rOn September 1 Arthur Pierson ap- peared in school -.and did not go again i ) until charges wem made against his 1 father, John P. Pierson. The father . was ordered to keep his child there for the remainder of the year. The father ; of Charles Buxton said he would take . care of his child and see that he attended, at-tended, school hereafter. r The court made a provision for the education of Amber Bolter, an orphan, who has been in the employ of J. R. Rawlins of Draper. The boy is fifteen years old. Rawlins was ordered to give the boy work eo he could go to school or see that he waa placed where . he could have such advantages. |