Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1913 — Boarder Picks Up Pig, But It Is Denied a Home [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Boarder Picks Up Pig, But It Is Denied a Home

PITTSBURGH, PA.—J. F. Retzlach of 1406 East Ohio street, Northside, has a pig which the owner can have by “proving property.’’ He found the pig in front of his boarding house late the other night when he returned to \that haven. The young porker was grunting hungrily at the foot of the high steps leading to the front door, and Retzlach captured it without much trouble. What to do with the pig after he got it worried Retzlach. He had no> pen in which to put it, and none of the neighbors was so provided' The pig is not very big, and he thought his landlady would perhaps allow him to keep it in the cellar or the chicken coop for the night. So he shouldered

Mr. Pig and marched up to the house confidently, only to be met by the woman's point-blank refusal to house the pig for even a minute. "I will not have any dirty pig in the house!” she declared wratfully. "Rouse mlt um!” / Retzlach was disappointed. He saw visions of a good reward for finding the pig, and it was against his frugal nature to give up a chance without a struggle. He wished then he was parried, so that he might assert his fights as head of the house and, if he chose, keep the pig all night in the parlor or, for that matter, the bedroom. But being a bachelor and only a roomer, he had to yield. The old Eighth ward school building is located nearby, and so is the Croatian church. Retzlach tried to put the pig in the cellar of both these buildings. but every door and window was closed tighter than a miser’s pursestrings. Then he thought of eaves he had heard of in the steep bluff back of the house, but a long search failed to revall a place to quarter his prize. Finally, in desperation, he carried the pig to the stockyards on Herrs Island, a mile away.