Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1901 — Mortgage Lifted by Frogs. [ARTICLE]

Mortgage Lifted by Frogs.

A writer of the Wanatah Mirror says the number of frogs caught on the Kankakee marsh during the winter months is enormous, amounting to hundreds of thousands. One summer two men captured between 120,000 and 124,000 dozen, which they shipped to Chicago, receiving an average of nine cents a dozen for them. The writer concluding says he knows of one German family in particularthat were in close circumstances financially. The mortgage on their little home was fast closing upon them, and they were unable even by working night and day, to meet their obligations. When the Chicago frog market opened, they let their farm and marsh hay go and went to catching frogs and the result is to-day that they have hundreds of acres of that noted marsh land and all free from debt and they simply got it by catching frogs. It is not an uncommon thing in the winter for two men to go out and catch frogs in one day to net them the neat sum of sls to S2O.