Written in 1900 on the official letterhead of the Stanislaus County Superintendent of Schools, this letter from J.A. Wagener recounts a local incident involving a boy and a stolen set of keys. Predating World War I by nearly two decades, it forms part of a family correspondence archive later centered on the wartime letters of his son, Private Willis W. Wagener, offering insight into small-town civic life in early twentieth-century California. Project: 218022