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Show OO I WORK OF THE JUVENILE COURT Nearly five hundred Juvenile cases have been acted on in some manner during the past year by the local Ju veulle authorities, according to tho annual report just completed by Juvenile Juve-nile Judge V. C. Gunnell Out cf this agcregate of complaints and Investl-, gallons, but five boys and one girl have been committed to the State In-. du6trlal pcbool. Judge Gunnell reports that llt cases of truancy from school have been handled by Probation Officer! Henry C. Jacobs and himself and that 257 cases of othfr forms of dellnquen-. cy have come under the parental cyo of the court. This report includes tho twelve months between November 30, 1909, and December 1. 1910. Strangely enough, there were only thirty formal complaints filed with I the court, the great hulk of the cases ; coming to the attention of the Judge or hia officer through verbal com-1 plaints or statements. Nearly all of; the cases of truancy were amicably j adjusted by Officer Jacobs without j any action of the court. The blcycle-fiblowalk blcycle-fiblowalk ordinance was tho cuuse of J 1 4G Juveniles being haled Into court. Violation of tho curfew ordinance also ' caused a great many youths to be brought before the court. i |