Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1913 — BELL STIRS A BALKY TEAM [ARTICLE]

BELL STIRS A BALKY TEAM

Minnesota Man Gets Out of a Deep Rut by Fooling His Horses With Fire Alarm. Minneapolis, Mins. Columbia Heights is a suburb of Minneapolis and for fire protection depends principally upon a volunteer organization, with Maude and Dick, a team owned by Phil Stack, to pull the department’s wagon to the few fires. Both horses have come to know the tone of the fire bell and what it means for them. Recently Stack was hauling stone and the wagon dropped into a deep rut. Maude and Dick refused to move the load. Then Stack tried a new plan and sent a boy to ring the fire bell, one block away. The result was instantaneous, Maude and Dick yank* ing it to the next block on the gallop.