Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1916 — KANSAS HOGS GET SOUSED [ARTICLE]

KANSAS HOGS GET SOUSED

Owner ’Thbught they Were Sick and Called a Veterinarian; Just Jolly Drunk Narka, Kan.—Hogs .have revealed to Kansas a booze of the most approved type that does not come under the prohibition law, the Federal antlnarcoftc law'nor any other statute known to lawyers of this state. It is good, old fermentation of cherry pits It made ♦he swine "good and soused,” and There is every reason to suppose that the average man wfll be floored by anything that is strong enough to put/ a hog out of sobriety. The bunch lof porkers whick disclosed the new "joy’* beverage belongs to V. H. Greuter of this town. A few flays ago he became disturbed over their antics and forthwith summoned a veterinarian to expell the demon of illness. The veterinarian scanned the “patients” and pronounced the verdict ..hat they were jolly drunk. Then G r euter set to work to ascertain where they got the stuff, and found that it was the fruit of the cherry pits, which has been dumped into the trough from which the hogs obtained, water.