Show rajre Four TOE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE JUNIOR SUNDAY MORNING FEBUARY Tales of Real Dogs 21 1932 BY ALBERT BAYSON TERHUKE JIGGS: Georgia’s Strange “Fire-Dog- ” Hi i name was Jiggs He was snow-whi- te (for a few minutes after each bath) except for a black spot which surrounded his right eye He lived In Waycross Ga and he won statewide fame as "The Fire Dog” In his day— though he may still be on earth for all I know — Jiggs attended more than 250 fires He was daft on the subject of conflagrations It would be pleasant to record that the little white fire dog also had a record for saving lives and for pulling helpless children out of burning buildings or of giving the alarm which enabled whole families to escape or that at least he dragged forth imperiled valuables from the flames But it is not on record that he ever saved anyone or anything He was not only utterly useless at all the fires he attended but he was always in everyone's way To Jiggs a fire was an exciting game not a matter for heroism He attached himself to Chief Harvey Thackston of the Waycross fire department in 1928 He took up his home in the firehouse and graciously allowed the department's men to Everyone who comes into the office of late says that this seventh big point contest is the most exciting one w The scores already are have had far higher they point out than in preMorevious contests at this stage over there are more really talented youngsters who seem to be determined to win high places This adds to the Interest in two ways — it makes other contributors work harder and more carefully and so it gives us a far higher standard of material from which to Choose Point winners this week are: Amy Nakasblma puzzle adopt him They took him on as sort of mascot but more as an amusing playfellow They endured more pestering from him than the average body of firemen would stand from a whole army of dogs Jiggs had a way with him and his human chums merely grinned a his misdeeds Instead of (wearing at him or kicking him They tried to beautify him from time to time with a bath But the minute he could sneak away after the tubbing he would gallop to the coal hole and fling himself Into it rolling over and over Not until his coat was thoroughly begrimed would he venture back to the men who had worked so hard to make him clean People passing by the firehouse got to criticizing the men for the ugly dirtiness of their dog This made the firemen sore especially when nobody would believe that he had been scrubbed so honestly and so often The moment the alarm clanged no matter at what time of day or night Jiggs was awake and on his feet in an Instant dashing for the largest of the three trucks and jumping to the running board and thence scrambling up to the seat alongside the driver From the time the alarm rang the dog’s clamorous barks never ceased until long after the scene of the fire was reached He would mark so loudly as to make it difficult for the men to hear the chief's orders The driver was almost deafened by the hideous racket so close to his ear The series of wild barks served the Waycross folk as fully as did the (creams of the siren to notify them a fire hod been reported As the truck neared the blare Jiggs became more and more delirious with excite‘ ment June Ellis In a long and clever article about Jiggs In the Atlanta Journal described thus his usual conduct at a fire: "Reaching the conflagration one would Imagine that Jiggs would become a hero and rush into the burning building But be doesn’t He has never been known to retrieve a single article froqj the big event which thrills him so "Arrived at the blaze he jumps Jiggs became delirous with excitement frantically about among the busy firemen barking nipping at their ankles and m a dozen ways making himself a general nuisance But the force love him and try to shoo him out of their way “When he has arrived at the fire and has ‘helped’ the force to unload he busies himself by chasing any cat or chicken which may be in sight He and never wanders far however strangers who loiter around the trucks at a fire have his sudden close attention The firemen leave their coats and other possessions on the trucks depending on Jiggs to guard them which he does” From the very beginning Jiggs never failed once to answer the house alarms the moment they sounded But within a few days he learned for himself that a “test alarm” is always rung at 7 a m and 5 pm and that these tests have nothing whatever to do with a fire So presently he Ignored them contemptuously sleeping through them morning and night But if a real alarm was rung a very few minutes before or after the tests were made Jiggs was as swift to respond to it as any fireman In some unknown way he taught himself this difference The driver of the biggest truck suffered most from Jiggs' noisy excitement on rides to fires But he was vastly flattered that Jiggs always chose him to ride with at such times instead of with the driver of either of the two other trucks The dog's seeming devotion to him was something to brsg about But one day this driver was sadly undeceived Always under ordinary conditions the biggest truck was the first of the three out of the house and they-mere- ly ‘ Application for Membership in Knighthood of Youth on its way to the blaze Once there was a brief delay in gettmg the big truck started and one of the two smaller trucks took the lead With a howl of fury Jiggs leaped down from his high seat on the big truck and made a whirlwind dash for the smaller truck which was setting out in front of it He sprang and scrambled Into the seat of this foremost truck wholly abandoning his old friend the other driver Several times after that the same thing happened The large truck was delayed and one of the other took the lead Invariably Jiggs left his usual post of duty and leaped up on the foremost truck He had evidently figured out for himself that the big truck was supposed to reach the fire first Therefore he had chosen it as the one to ride on It was not a case of loyalty to that truck driver Drivers were nothing to Jiggs All he eared about was to get to the fire ahead of anyone else During the first year of Jiggs’ stay at the a policeman came there during a round of the neighborhood He had been sent to find what owners had or had not paid their annual dog tax of $1 Jigg’s tax had not been paid The officer declared the money must be handed over or else Jiggs must go to the dog pound Jiggs seemed to sense the threat — or perhaps he did not like this stranger's tone in speakng to his friends For the dog made a wrathful dive for the policeman’s shins achieving a very creditable bite or two before he could be dragged away The policeman complained to the city authorities who made the wise decision that Jiggs was a member of the municipal fire department and as such was I wonder if the queer little dog la still living? fire-hous- e fire-hous- e 1932 by the McNaught Syndicate Inc) (Copyright Knighthood of Youth Editor ' The Salt Lake Tribune I want you to enroll me as a member of the Knighthood of Youth and I enclose 13 cents which I have earned myself to pay for my first button ribbon and chart I pledge myself to be strictly honest in filling out my chart Name - f- An iirer to Crottuord i Putule Parents’ Name Address (Street) Grade In School Salt Lake crossword Arval Grover Magna comic strip Geraldine 81evert Modena! essay Fames Kenner Bait Lake poem Janet Higgs Bingham poem Vera Btth Denison Castle Gate poem Fern Ivy Oardner Salem poem Amy Nakashlma 6alt Lake illustrated busy work Ulty Pedersen Balt LAke drawing Lilly Pedersen Balt Lake drawing Amy Nakashima Balt Lake drawing James Hammond Balt Lake story Geraldine Sievert Modena story Lot in a Julia Jenkins Rexburg Idaho story Lola Providence pet Ransenberger story Carma Morrison Richfield pet story Ruth Mabey Bancroft Idaho pet story Geraldine Sievert MoJena article Mary Barker Ogden article Je&MaStone Gooding Idaho pet story ielua 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Walter Broman Balt Lake araanng Clara Tomlinson Green River recipe Pern Freckleton Nephl curiosity Harold Strand Tremonton curiosity Nellie Bryson Providence curiosity Helen Gessel Providence curiosity Charles Winder Orangey bright saying Fern Ivy Gardner Salem bright saying Jane Watson Rupert Idaho bright w saying Imma Julia Jenkins Rexburg Idaho bright saying Geraldine Sievert Modena bright say- 3 tng Pern Ivy Gardner Salem bru nt saying 3 Geraldine Sievert Modena clipped pic- tures f50 300 Mary Barker Ogden clipped pictures Betty Renslrom Salt Lake clipped 50 poems Fames Kenner Balt Lake clipped i k0 poems Virginia Judd Rupert Idaho clipped JaneTatsoii" Rii peri 'Idaho' ’clipped — pictures Parties Kenner Balt Lake clipped ptc tures Clarissa Williams Murray clipped pic The contests for this week are to be on the first day of spring We know you are all glad that spring will soon be officially here so honor the occasion of its coming with a poem an essay or a drawing GEORGE WASHINGTON Who as a child with a hatchet brand new Chopped a fine cherry tree till tt toppled hi two? Who to the pasture with other boy hied And rode a fine oolt till it fell down and died? Who when a yowth a surveyor became? Whose height and strength led ban onward to fame? Commander-In-Chie- f led M troops through the war On to freedom? Whose renown has spread far? What Who honest and brave first president was? Who lived a long life for Liberty cause? Date of Birth Age Visitors Say This Contest Best Yet Held (City) (County) (State) Who while he lived told never a lie? hen told Who lay calm and collected he must die? Name of School Date of Filing Application I Earned This Money by (Explain in detail Just what work you To all of these question the aivwee is one — A loved and remembered hou — George Washington KNIGHT CRUSADER LAEL WOOLSEY SaR Lafan did) i Xtgtmei |