Playin' hooky

The Hocking Sentinel, Aug. 24, 1905

I find it oddly reassuring that uncle Charley was not always the perfect son.

He, too, worried his parents and ditched school -- even if it was only kindergarten or first grade.

Master Charles Huls and little Miss Bertha Delp, two typical young Americans, decided to cut loose from their family ties, last Friday afternoon, and see Logan. After some two hours of strenuons [sic] search and mental agony their parents found them at the lower end of town, near the trestle "watchin' for the train to go over."

Grandpa Fred did not join them. He was only a year old and too young for such shenanigans.

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