Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1913 — HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES

Philadelphia Rooster Defies Mandate of Court

PHILADELPHIA, PA.—With a covey of five hens and an ample supply of cracked corn and plenty of water, a white bantam rooster strutted around the yard of Charles L. Tull’s home, 2218 North Twelfth street, the other day, and openly defied the mandate of the common pleas court The diminutive fowl did not know or did not give a rap what the court ordered, for the rooster, despite an injunction issued by Judge McMichael against the owner of the bird, got up at his usual hour, mounted the fence and proceeded to serenade the neighbora by crowing at the break of day. Mr. Tull is the proud owner of the rooster. He—Mr. Tull—rwas out of the city with his wife, and when a clerk in the office of P. A. Wildermuth, the plaintiff in the case, tried to serve Mr. Tull with the Injunction it was found that the owner of the obnoxious fowl was in Atlantic City. Members of the Civic club are deeply interested in Mr. Wildermuth’s attempt to eliminate what he considers unnecessary noises. Mrs. Owen

Wister eaid she was in sympathy with his efforts, and that, since all roosters are a nuisance in * thickly settled community, the court is right in directing' the owner to either put a muffler on the chicken or send him to the country for the summer. If the rooster crows after Mr, Tull is served with the injunction he may be held in contempt of court Mr. Wit dermuth says he will see that the papers are property presented, and that he will back up hie determination to put the rooster out of business by having a court officer take Mr. Tull into custody Just as soon as the injunction Is violated. The cause celebre has suddenly leaped into fame in the neighborhood. Neighbors who never before looked over a fence or peeped through a hole in the wall have developed a wonderful curiosity to take a look at the subject of the controversy. A woman of unusually heavy build snatched a board from a fence when she tried to gaze into Mr. Tull’s back yard. The children have also been boosting each other to see the rooster and his five .barnyard companions. Mrs. Imogene B. Oakley, head of • special committee appointed by the Civic club to do away with unnecessary noises, declared a law should be passed to prevent roosters from crowing early in the morning. “Mr. Wildermuth was right in asking the court to suppress the nul sance," she said.