Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1911 — Settled the Argument But Killed a Full Blooded Chicken. [ARTICLE]

Settled the Argument But Killed a Full Blooded Chicken.

Swaney Makeever and Ed Goetz are telling a good story on John Rush and Reuben Yeoman.

Both are interested in the proposed new roatis for Newton township and both were In town one day last week. Rush had been instructed by his wife to buy a thoroughbred rooster and this he did. During the time Mr.' Yeo> man was in town he had been tkTked to about the legal phaze of the road he was one of the petitioner* for and he had just about decided that he might be in the wrong and was a little in doubt about wbat to do when he' started home with Mr. Rush. The occupied a place on the seat of the wagon and as the neighbors wended their homeward way they talked about the new roads and the law affecting. They forgot all about the rooster In the excitement and when they reached home and Jot\n brought down the sack with his latest thoroughbred stock in it the rooster was dead. The theory ts that the mer. sat on it which may be the cause of the demise, but others are advancing the thcoi ‘hat the chicken was talked d'sC The men are said to have 1. 1 .at .ument agreeable but «. Rush i. at a dandy good rooster.

. Mortgage exemption blanks for *nle 'at The Republican office.