Crow Which Never Missed a Religious Meeting Held in Zion City is Missing.
Shame Cry Crusaders.
Hundreds of Zionites Mourn Bird Whose Attendance at Services Was Marked.
    Zion City, Dec. 12,-“Jack,” the pet crow, which has attended the crusade meetings held twice daily in front of the F. B. Cook factory, has been assassinated. Some foul, soul-stained criminal has waylaid the bird and has either dropped him with a slingshot or a shotgun, for “Jack” is laid low and he can no longer protest by his presence against tobacco users who have invaded Zion City.
    For weeks “Jack” has been faithful at these early morning meetings. At 7:15 promply he was on the job seated on a post as the tobacco users went by to work, and listening attentively and reverently as the elders prayed and sang. Then he would wait until the crusaders filed out of the enclosure, and perhaps get a pat or two on the back by way of encouragement, and when the last member had gone he would fly back up the boulevard in stages until the procession reached Sheridan Road, then he would go “straight as the crow flies” for home.
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