Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — FISHHOOKS BAD FOR FOWLS [ARTICLE]

FISHHOOKS BAD FOR FOWLS

Pennsylvania Chicken Fancier Believes Old Saying Is In Need —. of Revision. Lewiston, Pa.—John B. Clemmens, a Pennsylvania railroad signalman at Newton Hamilton, is of the opinion that the old sayingT"Never count your chickens until they are hatched," eould be well amended to read “Never count your chickens.” Clemmens is a chicken fancier and had a flock of half grown games of which he was especially proud. The other day his two sons returned from a fishing trip and threw a number of large eel hooks, baited with pieces of veal, on the bank at the boat landing. An hour later there was a great commotion among the flock of games and an investigation showed that each had swallowed a chunk of veal and an eel hook with it. Clemmens killed six of the chickens in removing the hooks.