Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-18 | Page 1 | Kept Chanticleer from Crowing by Very Simple Trick

Kept Chanticleer From Crowing by Very Simple Trick By Universal Service. HOBOKEN, N. J., July 17. That necessity is the mother of invention in-vention is as true today as when A-dam hieroglyphicked the adage some years ago in the stone age. Under stern necessity that of getting some sleep Pete Carlos of West Hoboken I became an inventor and impressed ( the city council with hU idea. Paul Ranzo's roostr, which Carlos Car-los described as the "world's champion cham-pion crower," started Carlos' mind by working all night and every night. Carlos carefully placed a forefinger on his brow and thought and thought. Then he hied himself to the city council, told his sad tale and unfolded his invention. He asked the city council to order that Ranzo's rooster be confined in a coop with a low-brow roof. "A rooster cannot crow unless he can stretch his neck," said the inventor. in-ventor. "So ordered," voted the council, and if the rooster tries to keep the neighbors awake In future he will wear out his comb, at least.