House fire story leads to gawking geese

Sometimes stories in the early issues of the Weekly Gazette started out as a pretty ordinary news story, but then toward the end took a rather unusual turn.
An example, in the October 30, 1926, issue of the newspaper begins with the burning down of a house and ends with gawking geese.
The house, on West Main Street, was owned by R.M. Reed and was occupied by the C.A. Thompson family. The fire occurred about 8 p.m. on a Saturday. The family who lived there were all at Thompson’s place of business, but the house was a total loss. The cause of the fire was thought to be either defective wiring or a lightning strike.
There were trees on all sides of the house, and flames eventually started burning the leaves, which would drift high up into the air burning.
Then, according to the story, “A very unusual sight was that of a flock of wild geese that circled several times in the light made by the fire, their honking indicating that they, too, were excited at the conflagration.”