Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1913 — Killed a Fine Seagull and Wants to Have It Mounted. [ARTICLE]

Killed a Fine Seagull and Wants to Have It Mounted.

William Hough, of Jordan township, called at The Republican office today with a line seagull which he killed near his farm Friday. He saw two gulls flying past his home and managed to kill one. It is a fine specimen, measuring 5 feet and 2 inches from tip to tip and being very fat. It was evidently driven from Lake Michigan by the high winds and became lost from the lake and there was so much water all along the route traveled that the way back could not be found. Mr. Hough left the bird with Harve Robinson, who seme years since mounted several of the birds that are now in the high school collection. He will try to preserve the bird by taxideraic process.