This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reade, Tilman, Watson, Godwin, Murphy, Hiatt, Lesly, Day, Campbell Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1694 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. Feb. 15, 1917. "GIRLS RUTHLESSDY BREAK BONDS OF SIDNEY SCHOOL; SUSPENDED TWO DAYS".--Ten young ladies, students in the Sidney high school, established what they decalre will be known in the future years as annual "hike" day, and hied themselves away Tuesday to Thurman wihtout even the formality of "Goodbye, Professor; we're off." Under the careful directions of their own dictation, the girls planned this event for days. Tuesday morning they assembled quietly at the high school and deftly marched forth into the world without destination. They secured cars at the Sidney garage and told the drivers to "follow their nose". In their travels, wandering about the county, they finally reached Thurman, where the entire aggregation of "hikers" were cordially welcomed into the schools and permitted to give their yells. The young ladies participating in this event are: Ruth Reade, Nelle Tilman, Leona Watson, Helen Godwin, Eva Murphy, Mabel Hiatt, Ruth Lesly, Minnie Tilman, Frances Day and Edna Campbell. As a result of their ruthless indiscrimination and open violation of the well regulated discipline of Sidney high school, each of these 10 girls were arraigned before the chief of the faculty Wednesday morning to hear the solemn reading of a decree confining them to the custody of their homes for a period of two days, or other such place as they desired to spend the time, excepting within the walls of the sanctuary of learning. Considerable speculation is going on among the girls. They hold no grievance against the faculty of Sidney high school, or anything like that, but they are wondering whether or not, in the school days of their good-natured teachers when they were young--or younger than at the present time--they ever violated a fixed rule and were forced to undergo such penalty as invoked in this case. Besides being forbidden admittance to school for two days, the girls were also given zero on the lessons missed. This is a case of "boys will be boys", only it does not happen to be boys. No real harm has come of the juvenile mischief, and fair minded men and women cannot find it in their hearts to condemn the young ladies for their conduct in the high spirit of fun which prevailed, yet the suspension from school, to maintain order and discipline, is wholly justified.