Bears, Geese, Flowers, Robins Back on Job

1920

Nature Prophets Come to the Front as Spring Arrives

HACKENSACK, N. J., March 25. -- A bear, full of pep after awakening from his winter sleep, treed Charles Ehrberg of Rochelle Park Sunday night, but Charley was rescued by his friend, William Seeman.

WINSTED, Conn., March 25. -- A robin hopped all over Dr. W. S. Hulbert's lawn, although the grass was covered with snow and the mercy was below 30. It was the first redbreast of that year, and everybody knows what that means.

CAPE MAY, N. J., March 25. -- Seven flocks of geese were seen flying over this city, each flock numbering fifty or more. They were on their way to northern feeding grounds. Farmers are plowing their fields.

MILFORD, Conn., March 25. -- Frank Wilson, residing at South Milford, brought to the Center the other day a large branch of apple blossoms, more than twenty separate twigs and branches. It made a bouquet more than twenty inches in diameter. He is sure it means an early spring.

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, March 27, 1920, page 1.