Student Trappers Coming to School with Smell of Skunks

1919--

PELT HUNTERS IN BAD

Nashville. Ind.—The skunks of central Indiana are on the point of breaking up the high school at Nashville. The school board has been called to sit on the situation, and, holding its nose, is expected shortly to hand down a ruling disposing of the skunks. It appears that the high school boys have found that skunk pelts are valuable, and all fall they have been conducting night hunts through the woods in search of the creatures. No one objected to their enterprise until they began to straggle into the schoolrooms of a morning with a reminiscent odor of the chase that demoralized the classrooms. Teachers stormed, but fragrant youth insisted on its right to go hunting. The matter was then put up to the school board for settlement.

--Ironwood Daily Globe, Ironwood, Michigan, November 20, 1919, page 7.