Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1911 — FEARED THE SCREECH OWL [ARTICLE]

FEARED THE SCREECH OWL

Woman Was Not Superstitious, hut She Cut Short Her Visit to the Country.

*Tm not a bit superstitious, not In the least bit. but —I don’t ever want to hear another screech owl In the night,” said a woman who remained in the country until the holidays. “Positively, I believe I should go mad if I ever heard that blood-curdling sound again. “You know they say In the country that If a Bcreech owl comes crying around the house it’s a sure sign of death. Of course, I've no faith in that sort of nonsense, but all the same, the mother died after the owl’s first appearance. “The owl came back and one of the employees died. It came back again, and I decided that, after all, I didn’t want to spent Christmas In the country, and lighted back to town. The coachman said something about ’the old rule,’ and I just naturally packed up my duds and bought a ticket for New York. “Ugb-h-h! I shiver now whenever 1 think of that owl in the apple tree.”