Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1917 — Want a Million Black Cats. [ARTICLE]

Want a Million Black Cats.

Charles Daugherty, formerly of this county and for eight years sheriff of Lake county and now deputy sheriff of that county, is planning to embark in a business which he thinks will yield him and his partner a great profit. He expects his returns to rival those of the great steel corporations of that county. The plan, as related by the Crown Point Register, is as follows: “Deputy. Sheriff Daugherty and J. A. Donnaha have figured out an investment that looks promising and if they can secure the right kind of encouragement they propose to embark in 4t this winter. They propose to buy up 1,000 black cats and start a cat farm. They propose to raise rats tof urnish feed for the cats, and when they kill the cats for the fur, they will feed the bodies to the rats, thus providing a sort of endless chain. Both cats and rats will increase rapidly and in a short time they will have one million cats, and in time may market about a million black cat pelts a day. Owing to the war fur promises to be an unusually high price this winter and they expect to be able to p&y nice dividends as soon as they get the farm started, as they will be to no expense for feed, and it will cost little to house either cats or rats. They will need the services of a good cat skinner. Daugherty expects to act as bookkeeper and tend to all correspondence, while Donnaha will handle the money. Outside of this all they need is someone to do the work of taking care of the cat hides.”

Albert Overton and family, of Tuscola, DE, and Mrs. Overton’s father, Thomas Robinson, of Medaryville, were in Rensselaer Thursday visiting friends and relatives. They were the guests in the evening at dinner with Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Rowles on Milroy avenue. The Overtons had intended to visit here for a ?hort time, but while here Mr. Overton received a message to come to Warren, Ohio, where a former partner of his had rtied. They returned to Meiaryville last night and Mr. Overton left there for Warren, Ohio, this morning.