Mr. Turkey

Jamestown Press
Jamestown, [Boone County] Indiana
Friday, 29 Nov. 1901 page 2

About two weeks ago a turkey strutted into John YELTON's barnyard and made itself at home. It had the appearance of having been cooped up, and in all probability had escaped from someone's huckster's wagon to avoid of being present at some Thanksgiving dinner. John made up his mind that he would have turkey for his Thanksgiving dinner and was making arrangements for the occasion, but one morning, Mr. Turkey disappeared. It went over and roosted at Alva SCOTTON's chicken stable a few nights and Alva was licking his chops and thinking of what a feast of turkey he would have Thanksgiving day. Mr. Turkey remained with him long enough to eat all of his spare corn and then skipped. It then showed up at John SOMERVILLE's, where it made itself at home up to Monday this week. Mr. S, too, began to have dreams of Thanksgiving dinners, in which turkey played a very important part, and he could fairly taste the oyster dressing and cranberry sauce. Fifty-eight cents corn was not too good to feed a turkey on, especially one that had not cost him anything, but John made the mistake of not putting Mr. Turkey up and he left between two suns. This is all the farther we have been able to trace his Turkeyship. It may have been lucky enough to escape the axe yesterday and will try to work others for it's feed from now until Christmas, but it had better steer clear of John YELTON, Alva SCOTTON and John SOMMERVILLE.

Transcribed by: Janet ISLEY Price. "I am posting this story for others. I am not related to the subjects."