Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-05 | Page 6 | Fair and Warmer? the Turtles Tell

IF Fair ir and Warmer Wanner The Th Turtles Tell Tel 5 2 t I x Mrs Stokeley Mitchell js is shown with her turtles who know all about b ut the he weather KNOXVILLE Tenn By ByNEA- ByNEA The weather mari man may make mistakes mistakes mis mis- takes due to changes In the wind and various other causes but turtles never I At least that Is the opinion of Mrs Stokeley Mitchell of ot Knoxville who has a colony of about forty of these creatures From observation of her ber pets Mrs Mitchell foretells the nature of the weather For 1927 1928 she has las predicted a severe winter as asher asler her ler turtles burrowed deep into the ground for their hibernating period Although these turtles hibernate they hey c come me out of the ground for tor days at a time during warm weather er in the winter j T They eY are are better prophets than th the weather man mILE says Mrs s. s Mitch Mitch- ell eli for cor wh when n a cold wave Is Predicted predIcted predicted pre pre- and the turtles stay out the cold wave va ve never arrives Turtles are q queer eer pets for lor tor this delicate charming little southern woman Her collection started about tv twenty nty ye years rs' rs ago ago wh when n Mrs Mitchell rescued a turtle from some small boys in n tl the street estreet The neighborhood d children heard herd of Mrs Mitchells Mitchell's turtle They brought her others Her unique col colony ny contains turtles turtles tur tur- tIes varying from babies the size of quarters to grownups and grown- grown olds the size of ot dinner plates There are land turtles and water thirties They have shells sheila that run the gamut ga gamut gamut ga ga- mut of colors from bright yell w to black