The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-02-06
GROUNDING !. HOO |
' WAS SLEEPY
BuTnheimer's Weather Prophet Gave
SuIlen Reception to Visiting
Delegation.
The INVESTIGATORS SAMPLED wine

James Burnheimer's ground hog and
grape wine attracted more attention
Monday afternoon than three-rins
circus. Aout Q o'clock in the after
noon those scientists of Canton wko
are interested in the phenomenon of
suspeded animation met at the court
ho',se and accompanied by Mr.. Burn
heimer wended their way to his home
on West South street. s
The delegation repaired Immediate
ly to the cellar, the rendezvous of the
ground hog. When his den was ap-
preached all was quiet as the grave.
There was not sign of life anywhere
about the burrow. This was explained
Iy the fact that earlier in the day, "Old
Sausage" had been out and seen his
shadow and Immediately went back
and took an extra dose of somc kind
of dope and relapsed Immediately into
slumber once more.
That crowd had come to see the
ground hog and see 1t they would. They
had also heard of the famous two-year
old wine in the cellar. The first at
tention was given to the wine. This
was in defence to it's age. II was two
years old, while the ground hog was
not yet one year old. The party con-
sisted of seventeen or eighteen. After
they had looked upon the wine when
It gave its color in the cup, and ad
mired its beauties in the glistenins
sunlight, the liquid went to its last
sleep in copious quantities, and it is
estimated that it's slumber will be lon
ger than the six weeks nap of the ro-
dent in its hole.
A son of Mr. Burnheimer, who is the
custodian of the weather prophet. f.
nally agreed to unearth the animal.
He dug down into its nest and found it
fast asleep. 1t was brought out into
the warm cellar where an Oil stove had
been burning. but showed no sign Of
animation. It was not able to walk
and was evidently affected by that
tired feeling" 1t was patted upon the
back. rolled over and over, punched
with a stick, offered refreshments.
liquid and otherwise. but 1t would have
be sociable. There was more sociabil-
ity in the other cellar, and the ground
hog was placed back in his nest and
covered up securely.
Mr. Burnheimer stated that on the
evening of the Mckinley banquet the
grounding came out and ate three
slices of bread and drank quantity of
milk, apparently being under the int
preston that he had ton-dollar tlcl:-
ct for the banquet. -. l~-7-qer peai.ia
Those comprising the party were Mr..
Rurnheimer, Commissioners J. B. Sum-
mer and Austin Hay, Councilman Will
lam Marshall, Hiram Shaub, jim. Nc
Quern, City Clerk G. c. Lloyd. Ned Per-
.kins, Ellis Lewis, Peter Schissler, Geo.
Schleininger. Eli Boyer, Amos McKin-
ney. Auditor M. w. Oberlin. John
Mathews, John Koehn, Oscar Steiner
and the News-Democrat reporter.
An effort was made TO get Peter
Schissler to sing an appropriate lullaby
to soothc the grounding to deeper
sleep, but Schaub refused to remain IL
he sang. SO the request was with
drawn.
Mr.. Rurnheimer had invited a num-
ber of lady friends to be present and
an impromptu reception was rendered
the gang as they tracked mud in across
the sitting room carpet.
The wine was pronounced first class
and the animal SO enthused some OF
the party that the boy was offered Sc
for 1t, but refused to sell. 1t was
voted a great social lion.