Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1907 — A BAD EFFECT OF JOKING REMARKS. [ARTICLE]

A BAD EFFECT OF JOKING REMARKS.

Earl Clouse, delivery boy at the Chicago Bfggain Store, while making a delivery at Joe Ellis’ in the north part of town about 6:30 o’clock Saturday evening, was bitten on the hand by a dog supposed to belong to Albert Wolf, a neighbor. After coming back to the store the lx>ya for a joke told him he was likely to have hydrophobia, that be had better go to a doctor at once, etc., etc., and so worked on the boy’s nervous system that after making the rounds of the doctors’ offices and not finding any of them in, be collapsed in front of the grocery department about 7:30, fell over on the delivery horse, frothing at the mouth and barking like a dog., He whs taken home where he remained' in a semi-unconscious and deletions condition until Sunday afternoon, when be came to and has since been apparently all right. During his delerium it took three men to hold him on the bed. Tbe boy is about 17 years of age, and is a son of Levi Clouse. The marshal and nightwatch went up and shot the dog, which was not “mad,” and no more serious effects are expected to come of the matter.