Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — WOMAN’S HOME A SMALL ARK [ARTICLE]

WOMAN’S HOME A SMALL ARK

Chickens, Dogs, Ducks, Pigs and Goats in Three Rooms Gets Woman Into Police Court. New York. —Outside of having 30 chickens, ten ducks, five pigs, four dogs and tw'o goats concealed about her three-room house in the Rocky Hill road, at Bayside, Queens county, Mrs. Annie Curke hasn’t a single pet to keep her company. When brought before Judge O'Keefe In special sessions court' at Jamaica, charged with pemittlng the chickens to peregrinate about the property of her neighbors, it developed that she was conducting an ark. Evidence showed that the ducks occupied the attic, the dogs one of the rooms on the first floor, while the pigs have a front room and bath directly under the place where there would be a bay window if there were one. The goats occupy a cot tage near by and the chickens are not particular where they sleep. Judge O’Keefe suspended sentence when Mrs. Curke charged that the complaint was made by. a land booming concern. She promised to keep her chickens on a leash, but she may hear from the department of health, as a transcript of the testimony was-obtained for its use.