Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1919 — FUNERAL A PICNIC FOR DOG [ARTICLE]

FUNERAL A PICNIC FOR DOG

Rover Had Quite a Good Time While on His Way to His Lagt Resting Place. A big picnic was planned.and I was slated to transport the refreshments and a crowd of relatives to the picnic grounds, writes a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune. I placed the boxes and baskets containing the sand wiches, cake, fried chicken, etc., in » trailer, hitched the trailer to my car, already filled to overflowing, and started gayly on my way. A huge dog belonging to my aunt accompanied us, and I had the misfortune to run the heavily loaded ma chine over him, killing him Instantly, as we all thought. My aunt was deeply affected and insisted that I take Rover’s body along and bury it beside the river. I loaded the dog’s carcass into the trailer and started on again, but not so gayly. When we reached the picnic grounds and I reconnoitered in my trailer I be held Rover sitting up licking his chops as large as life, or larger, I should say, for he had devoured all our provisions.