Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1917 — PET COON AMONG CHICKENS [ARTICLE]

PET COON AMONG CHICKENS

Mixup Causes break in Friendly Relations Between Old Neighbors. Nortonville, Kan.—Edouard Sharp has a chicken house and a lot of chickens. James Skinner had a pet coon, and because the two got mixed up the other night, Ed and Jim aren’t on the best of terms. About midnight of the time inquestion, Ed was awakened by a neighbor who said that something was in Ed’s chicken house. The two got a flashlight, a gun and a club and marched silently out to the chicken house. On entering they saw a big coon on the perch. Ed used his club. The neighbor used his gun. The coon discovered it was an unlucky combination: Next morning Jim missed his coon. He heard about the row over at Ed’s place and went over. It was his coon—dead. %