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be feeble-minded by both the township trustee and the physi- 
cian from that part of the county. Her oldest child, Josie, 
was seen at the home of the trustee where she was working. 
She is a quiet, industrious girl who has reached the fourth 
grade in school and ''guesses that she wont go any more”. 
One physician states that Ollie is immoral. 
Walter Jones dropped dead when a young man. 
Curt, the seventh child of Walter and Sadie, is the hus- 
Jband of Elsie Jones, the daughter of John and Sallie Jones, 
his cousins. He is a low-grade moron who lives rent free in 
a tiny one-room house southeast of Solton. He works for a 
farmer who pays him 75 cents a day and claims that he does 
not earn 50 of it. The family has always been in a half- 
starved condition, never having a plentiful supply of any- 
thing except children. In the winter of 1918, they were 
found, after the big snow, in bed in order to keep warm, and 
with no food in the house. Curt has a speech defect, his 
mouth hangs open, his feet shuffle, he snuffles, and his eyes 
are crossed. He can neither read nor write. 
Ruth, born in 1910, is the oldest child of Curt and Elsie 
Jones. She is one of the most pathetic-looking children seen 
in the county. She is undernourished, pale, anaemic, cross- 
eyed, and apathetic. Altho past her eighth birthday, she can- 
not talk so as to be understood. Her mother says that she 
was a great big girl before she ever tried to talk. Her hands 
and neck were covered with large running sores. She has 
been in school 2 years and is only in the primer. The next 
2 children in the family were plainly feeble-minded. They 
were dull-eyed youngsters who made one think more of little 
animals than of children. Lula was clothed in an old sugar 
sack drawn up around her neck with holes cut to permit 
movement of arms. Andy, the third child, was an apathetic, 
miserable-looking boy of 5 years arrayed in his father’s over- 
alls which did not seem to have been altered except in the 
legs, which had been cut off. The garment was held on by 
one "gallus” and a string. He wore no shirt nor undergar- 
ment. The attire of these children has been described not to 
add color to the picture but to show the lack of industry, pride, 
and ability in Elsie. 
Second in the Jimmie Jones family came Laura, born in 
1851, the wife of James Brown. James, born in 1839, is the 
