Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1899 — Whiting Got the Weasel. [ARTICLE]

Whiting Got the Weasel.

Bruce Porter and Harry Whiting had a lively time Friday morning. Whiting spied a weasel running up the main walk to the court house, probably looking for “court house rats,” and both started in pursuit. Porter in his eagerness to capture the prize made a luuge but lost control of his heels, and the way he hit the walk was something terrific. Whiting immediately gave chase and finally captured the prize in front of Williams’ furniture store. By this time quite a crowd of our citizens arrived on the scene to participate in the excitement but too late. Whiting’s number ten had landed on the animal’s neck and he justly claimed his prize.