Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1915 — AN ASTONISHING DOG. [ARTICLE]

AN ASTONISHING DOG.

!• So Well Liked They Call Him Mayor of the Town. Togo la an astounding dog living In Seituato. Mass., where he is so well known and liked that they call him the mayor of the town. Nothing short of a chain, writes Will Irwin, can keep Togo away from any public -function. When the ladles of this or that church give a sale, a strawberry festival or a lawn sociable, Togo is the first guest to arrive, the last to leave, and altogether the life of the party. His own family is Catholic; but he himself sheds his broad tolerance upon the Unitarians. Is there a dance anywhere on his beat? At some time in the evening you are sure to see him at the door, radiating delicate but majestic patronage on the proceedings. “Enjoy yourselves, my children," he seems to say. Does the life-saving crew go out for their practice, Togo will usually superintend the proceedings. Saturday night, when the Idle Hour moving picture theater offers a special, the bowling parlors are running full blast, when the soda fountans keep open until midnight, when there is a dance at library, when the farmers from Greenbush way and the mossers from the beach repair to the harbor for a sociable evening—that is Togo’s time for a periodical canine debauch. Never by any chance may he be found at home after supper of Saturdays. He seems omnipresent at the harbor. Drop into the bowling parlor, he is in the corner watching the game. Repair to the moving picture show; he is there, too, visiting with the ticket seller in the office or watching the film from the back of the house. By and by sounds of yelps, howls, barks and shouts arise from Front street. It is Togo again, reducing a new dog to the true respectful attitude, or settling some old score. Now Sunday morning is different —although Mrs. O’Neil was at some pains to teach him that difference. He nearly made scandal at the church before he learned that he must not follow to mass. Even yet, though he knows Saturday night and Sunday morning, he has not mastered the church calendar to the extent of recognizing fixed feasts. On those occasions the ushers watch the door carefully to guard againßt the appearance of a large orange and white dog searching in the pews for his family.