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teves DiscoveredCemeteryContributed By A Times Reader)EoW maiity people'krtow how cun 1 .the little animal called the squirrel USIIf you want to find out for your-try hunting them during the openiInn,on, and if you don’t know their i Siits, you will come home with an the »ty hag, or go \o the State house jn h 1 and watch them for a s h o r t of Iod of time and you will soon real- j Wei that they are no fools. This short Wei y will show you about the squirrel- wha runningness aftd maybe some will i be.that the one who thought he was the uainted with their traits was squir-1 cany too. With apologies to Ripley I care his “Believe or not’,, here is thelsurr•it#* - * •#* -vv * : ■-y. • f \ ^- ^ Rjc,leginning in 1938 soon afteridrial-day, May 30, after the flags had thatn placed in the markers for the de~ sed soldiers in Maple Grove Cem-ry by the Daughters of Union Vet-ns, Daughters of American Revolu-thejTlianchai, American Legion and the Legionxiliarv, for the veterans of the Revo-ionary War, 1776, War of 1812, theecuwhctheril War, 1861-1865, Spanish-Amer- sunn War, 1898, and the World War, 8-1919, the hunting of the flags inmarkers began to disappear, one one in different parts of the cem-ry, leaving the standards hare, they re stripped clean, not leaving a sin-thread for identification. WhatledfsunIs to he done about it was quandarytealt;histryshe\herthe sexton and his helpers in the netery. At first it was thought that ’sildren who frequently go there may ve taken them, then that theory was icarded and the sexton gave the men itructions to be on the constant look-t to see if the culprit could be found.stillthi:ha\thalis was done hut during the remain- j r of the season, or until the middle October, nothing came out of their ?i1ant watching, and the flags andmdards were all removed.Soon after Memorial day in 1939 thenting on the standards again began disappear and the same orders were cen by the sex\on to his helpers, but be more watchful to see what wouldniaSillothalo1lagliaiIon]me out of it. After careful scrutiny the situation for about a month, onethe men, who was going through e middle of the cemetery, noticed a x squirrel jumping along the ground d from the base of the tombstonesmavilclaBafir;anBathe footstones, so he placed himself a position where he could watch him, id he didn’t have to wait very longricvil19see what he was up to, for Mr. juirrel made a bee line for one of the arkers, Ttlimbed up the standard of e flag to the bottom of the buntingponethiid with his teeth proceeded up the andard, ripping the bunting off slick id clean, then jumping to the ground.t this juncture the helper started in jrsuit of the culprit, but of no avail. r Mr. Squirrel was too swift and cun-ing for him and he disappeared as if e had been swallowed up by the irth.bem;larofthtc;anClIteausthNow what? The culprit had been lotted but what had become of him rid the bunting that he had stolen., sc he matter was discussed by the sex- j sjj in and his men and it was agreed to Q( iok over the trees in the cemetery, i re here it might be possible that a squir- q el den tree might exist, so the de- vj jctive work began again, with the re-; OA ult that a tree with a hollow limb neareaof;ie top was located. The men secured long ladder and one of them ascend- ar d to the hole in the limb, and to his tourprise the mystery was solved, as e* removed 29 buntings from the nest, b, slot satisfied with their find, thinking cj hat could not be all of the buntings 0ihat had been stolen, a further searchvas made, with the finding of another 0 ree with a hollow limb, and that was h nvestigated with the result of finding d!3 more of the huntings in the nest.Why the stealing of all these bunt-ngs? For the purpose of making a C varm nest for the winter and a com- Fortable place to raise their young. ” During the 1940 period there seemed 1 be no pilfering going on, but the ( iresent year they have been at it again, t;but only in a small part of the cem-j o ctery. No attention has been paid to i vIhe culprits as the men know where vthe buntings have gone. And only re- j a cently the men noticed a mother squir- j t rel and three of her offsprings scam- ( pering around not far distant from where they were working, as if they I w'ere trying to thank them for the j ( privilege of stealing the buntings for their warm nests without being dis- j lt;turbed.«Mdfal: If times get much worse,some human beings may take a lesson from the squirrels and gather an u m b e r • of buntings to^make bedspreads to keep(f arm the coming w'inter. - ii1(11
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Granville Times
Granville, Ohio, US
Thu, Sep 18, 1941
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