Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1913 — ONE TAIL OF TWO GOATS [ARTICLE]

ONE TAIL OF TWO GOATS

Mrs. Ryswyk’s "Gets” Mr. McCracken’s and a Neighborhood Quarrel Is the Result. Chicago.—Mrs. Minnie Ryswyk has a goat Henry McCracken has a goat. Mrs. Ryswyk’s goat is a hollow horned ruminant mammal, genus Capra, of the family Vovtdae. Mr. McCracken’s goat was a figment of the imagination. Which is sufficient preface for chronicling the fact that Mrs. Ryswyk’s goat got Mr. McCracken’s goat For Mr. McCracken, who lives at 10350 Lowe avenue, had a pear tree, a rose bush and several other small but highly decorative trees and shrubs in his back ysrd. Mrs. Ryswyk’s Mvqs across the alley from Mr. McCracken, at 10351 Wallace street When Mrs. Ryswyk’s goat broke Into the McCracken yard and ate the rose bush, mangled the pear tree and mangled , the other trees and shrubs, Mr. McCracken’s "goat" departed for pastures new. The Irate owner of the ruined herbarium dashed into the alley and upbraided Mr Ryswyk and his wife. "He punched me In the face and 1 hit him with a stick," Mrs. Ryswyk explained to Municipal Judge Scully la

the Hyde Park court yesterday. “He got my goat.” “Your honor, that Isn’t true. Her . goat got my goat. I may have been a little hasty, but I had lots of provocation.” Judge Scully put McCracken under peace bonds of 1500. "If you are brought in here again. McCracken,” said the court, “you thay get my goat and if you do it will go pretty hard with you.”