Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1910 — Tortolse Speed. [ARTICLE]

Tortolse Speed.

According to the fable the hare and the tortoise had a race and odds were decidedly against the latter because of its lack of speed. Now there is a tortoise in Ohio township, Bartholomew county, that would certainly “show up strong” in a race with the fabled creeper. The Ohio township tortoise has only moved about an eighth of a mile in 20 years. Twenty years ago O. A. Sprague, then a small boy, found a tortoise on the farm of his father in Ohio township and carved his initials on its back. He turned it loose and the Incident waa forgotten. A few days ago Everett Sprague, a loeal school teacher and a brother of the man who carved the tortoise, was walking about the farm, when ho ran across the tortoise and examined Us back. The initials were as plain as the’day they were carved and the tortoise h4d only moved about an eighth of a mile from place where the carving was done.—Columbus Correspondence Indlanapollß News.