Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1917 — Robins Reported Give Hope For Early Spring. [ARTICLE]

Robins Reported Give Hope For Early Spring.

Saw a robin, Heard it sing; Hearts are throbbin’ Tx>ud for spring. ' A young lady this morning reported having sighted a robin, the most highly accredited harbinger of spring and about the same time John Holden repo’ted the presence on Wednesday of two robins. John therefore is not only a day earlier but also reports a double quantity and the combined testimony should establish the spring’s approach so reliably that even the reign of the groundhog, which by virtue of the bright sun of Feb. 2nd allows him full three weeks yet to run, should be ..brought to a close and his hogship deposed for the sake of a winter-tired public. Boys with cracked knuckles have been playing marbles for the past two or three weeks, but this form of forecast has lost cast with the public in recent years because the modern boy often carries a sack of “commies” with him all year round and plays a game wherever there is a bare spot on the ground in the very severest winter weather, but if you are given to respect the reliability of the groundhog then you should fall in fine with the well-meaning robin and become a booster for spring and some early garden sass.