Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1915 — CHICKENS SCARED TO DEATH [ARTICLE]

CHICKENS SCARED TO DEATH

Had Never Seen Any Rain —Crazed by Downpour. Inez, Ky.—A number of good stories have been told as a result of the drouth in eastern Kentucky, but Parnell Crum of this place capped the climax by telling how a dozen of his chickens were scared to death by rain. The fowls were raised on his farm, and had never seen any rain. The drouth was broken by a heavy downpour, and the chickens, alarmed at the novel situ#ition. began flying madly about the nremises. Some of them broke their necks, while others apparently died of heart failure. Uvea of great men oft remind us that the book agent is still right on the job. *. - - > - - k .