FATHER TOOK THEM BACK HOME.
Carthage Girls Came Here to Make
"Scads of Money."
After spending nearly a week in Kansas City in an effort to get jobs as stenographers -- if they failed to get on the stage -- Ethle Garretson and Ida Miller, each 18 years of age, were returned to their homes in Carthage, Mo., last night by F. D. Garretson, father of one of them. They were apprehended in the Midland flats, Seventh and Walnut streets, yesterday afternoon and placed in the care of the matron at police headquarters.
Both girls said that they had graduated as stenoraphers at a business college in Carthage. Miss Miller in April, 1907, and Miss Garretson recently. Miss Miller said she had a cousin here "who just made scads of money as a stenographer" and the two girls hoped to do likewise.
Miss Miller is the daughter of W. T. Miller, 1509 South Garrison street, and Miss Garretson a daughter a daughter of F. D. Garretson, 522 Sophia street, Carthage. For the first few days the girls stayed with Mrs. Hathcock at Independence and Locust. The police were searching for them all the time, but did not find them until they moved to the other address.
