Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1915 — Did You Lose a Sack of Corn and Several Chickens? [ARTICLE]

Did You Lose a Sack of Corn and Several Chickens?

Here is an opportunity to recover several head of chickens and a sack of corn if you can prove property; Thursday morning as Tom Padgitt was going to the com field to cultivate the com he saw something in a clump of willows that attracted his attention. Investigation showed that it was a sack of com and a bunch of chickens, the latter with their feet tied together. Presuming that the chickens belonged in the neighborhood he cut the string that bound them. When he reported the-matter at home 'at noon and made inquiry in the neighborhood to see if any chicken raisers were short and did not find any who were he went back, and caught a half dozen of the chickens and took them to his home, where they still are. Apparently they were stolen and the thief had dropped them in the bushes when he thought he was pursued. The evening before Tom had driven to the bridge over the Iroquois ditch near the ice pond and then run down to the river bank to see if a line he had in the river had any fish on it. It is now believed that the-chicken thief was frightened at that time. Information is desired and the owner of the chickens can get them back by applying to A. L. Padgitt.