Originally published in The Vidette-Messenger of Porter County on February 20, 1941.
Bird Feeders Get Fan Mail For Efforts
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Cullison, of Gary, defendants in a suit filed by eight neighbors to restrain them from feeding birds on their premises, are attaining nation-wide fame as the result of the legal action now pending in Porter superior court here.
Each day the Cullisons received a large batch of fan mail from well-wishing bird lovers in all parts of the country. People had read of the fracas over the Cullisons and the birds and the literary efforts followed. Most of these are of a sympathetic nature, it is said.
Mrs. Cullison gets up every morning at 6:30 o’clock and armed with a small pail of grain and a loaf of bread feeds her chargesーsometimes over a hundred of them. She “serves” their second meal along about 4 o’clock every afternoon.
Feeding the flocks of birds, plus the legal expense connected with the action brought by their neighbors is making the Cullisons “hump a little,” they admit.
In other words, the Cullisons indicate their rise to the status of celebrities, with fan mail and all the trimmings, isn’t a financial bed of roses.
Further hearing in the case in which damages from the Cullisons, will be held Friday before Judge Mark B. Rockwell.
