Will Send Them To Coldwater

For some time Marshal Peterson has been looking up the case of the Jacques family, who live on N. Fourth-ave., betv.een Catharine and Kingsley-sts. It had often been reported to him that they lived in fllth and that the family was exceedingly large. He has investigated and has found that there are nine children at home, seven of which are under J2 years of age. The father and rnother are lazy and are derelict in educating their children and also in procuring food for them. The marshal is busy today getting an order f rom the probate court to have six of these children sent to the Coldwater school. George is 2 yeai-8 old, Willie 3, Clara 5, Marshall 6, Josephine 8, Joseph 10. These are the ones he wishes to have sent there, as out of all these only one has ever been to school and she for only six months. As Marshal Peterson states it. the house is filthy and the heads of the children are lousy and everything in sight is dirt and filth. This morning he was down to the house and the father was at home smoking a pipe, while his ten year old boy was at work. Work is plentiful on the sewers and it is only through laziness that the man has no job. - Times. Since the above appeared in the Times these people got wind of what was going on and have disappeared. It it beliuved that they have returned to Canada f rom where they carne. Teachers should remember that the State Teacher's Institute for Washtenaw County will be held at Ann Arbor, conuBBnoing at 10 o'clock a. m., Monday, July 29th, and closing at 4 p. in., Vriday, August 2d. Superintendent of Public Instruction.Pattengill, will have charge of the instituto and sugeests that, as the time for study vvill be limit ed, all those expecting to attend should review their arithmetic, gramrnar, geography, history, physiology, civil government, pedagogy, reading and ortho graphy. Full particulars in rerard to board, etc., may be obtained upon application to W. W. Wedemeyer, Opera House BIock,Ann Arbor.