The Eleven-Dollar Slice: Kennewick Boys Pay Dearly for a Stolen Cake

Undoubtedly the most expensive "feed" in the history of Kennewick records was a little midnight affair held last Saturday night on the ditch bank near the high school grounds. The menu was short, cake being the only item listed, and the bill which was paid by the five participants amounted to $55, or $11 each.

The cake was secured in a raid on the commissary department of the Sophomore class, who were giving a little party in the high school building. The bill was paid in Police Justice Staser's court Tuesday when two seniors, one junior and two "town" boys plead guilty to a charge of petit larceny and were fined five dollars and costs.

The complaints against the boys were sworn out by Supt. M. S. Lewis at the recommendation of the school board, who met in consultation over the case Monday. Supt. Lewis said legal action was deemed advisable because two of the participants were not school boys and consequently were not subject to school discipline.

According to the school authorities these refreshment raids have become so frequent and of such a nature as to be no longer excusable as outbreaks of class spirit. High school students and their parents, it is claimed, have been molested in this manner when they have attempted to give social affairs in their own homes. One case has been reported where an attempted raid on the kitchen was thwarted and the boys entered the cellar and carried away ten quarts of grape juice.

Although it is not known whether or not the principals in Saturday night's affair have been implicated in these other raids, the authorities believe the severe punishment meted out to them will have a deterrent effect upon the sometimes too strenuous spirits of youth.