Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1909 — Hard Winter Is the Prognostication of Muskrats. [ARTICLE]

Hard Winter Is the Prognostication of Muskrats.

Sid Schanlaub, the busiest correspondent in this section of the state, had the following Morocco dated telegram in the Indianapolis Star: Old hunters, who claim to be skilled in the ways of wild animals in relation to the weather, predict an exceptionally hard winter. They have examined the architecture of muskrat bouses, noted the unusual large quantity of honey laid up by bees and the store of nuts gathered by squirrels —all indicating, they say, a long, cold winter. 16 ——T— — Twenty-one high-bred horses belonging to Hiram Palin of near Wingate were killed by a fast passenger train. The animals were grazing in a field near the railroad and wandered through an open gate to the track.