Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1910 — COSTLY XMAS DINNER. [ARTICLE]

COSTLY XMAS DINNER.

Gardner Kills SIOO Rooster in Mistake for Ordinary Fowl, Logansport, Ind., Dec. 25. The high cost of living got another jolt upward when Henry Odum, gardner for George E. Ross, ex-Judge of the Appellate Court of Indiana, feasted Christmas Day on a SIOO rooster. Odum had been told that lie could have an old rooster confined in one of the coops where Judge Ross shelters his prizewinning cockerels. He was told where to find his Christmas dinner, but made a mistake and chopped off the head of King Richard, mate to Martha, who a few days hgo >von second prize in the Rhode Island Red class at the Chicago.show. Eggs from this particular pair of fowds sell at S2O a dozen.