Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1912 — GROUND HOG TIRED OF COLD [ARTICLE]

GROUND HOG TIRED OF COLD

Bound South on Brakebeam In Mod. ern Way—Journey Is Interrupted. Salt Lake City, Utah.—The progressive movement has reached the ground hog, as shown When one of the little animals was detected by a car inspector, beating its way on the brakebeam of a Western Pacific passenger train. The tour of the marmot ended under a waste paper basket, in which it was caged by a baggage man. "Smart ground hog,” commented the railroad men. “No back to the hole for it; it was going south for the rest of the winter.”