Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1915 — PLANS BURGLAR-PROOF POULTRY FORTRESS [ARTICLE]

PLANS BURGLAR-PROOF POULTRY FORTRESS

Owner's Last Surviving Chick to Be Preserved at all Hazards and Cost. Moultrie, Ga.—A granite chicken house, double locked, double barred, and fixed with an electric burglar alarm, will be built here soon by C. IL Atwater. He has posted on his front gate an invitation to all chicken thieves in the neighborhood to attend the laying of the cornerstone and to Inspect the plans for the new “coop." He says there is one in particular who ought to attend. This Invention is a defiance. Atwater Intends to build his new chicken coop so carefully that it shall be absolutely proof against burglars. When an the double locks and double bars and electric alarms are in place he will, so to speak, rest m peace. For the time being this vault will be the inhabitant of one lone hen. This hen is an that is left of Atwater’S brood of chickens. One by one the others have been stolen.