Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1910 — Barkley Township Boy Captures Big Pickerel in the Kankakee. [ARTICLE]

Barkley Township Boy Captures Big Pickerel in the Kankakee.

Vannie and Marie Arnold, children of Ell Arnold, of Barkley township, spent last Friday fishing in the Kankakee river, near Wheatfield. Vannie caught a pickerel weighing 14 pounds and measuring 38 inches in length. It was'caught With a hook and line and just as he was about to land it {the line broke and the fish flopped into the river but Vannie did not intend to let his prize escape so easily and he made a dive for the Hver, caught the big fish in his hands and succeeded in bringfcg it to land. Some fishermen there said it was the best catch they ever sarw made In the Kankakee river A number of extremely big pickerel h(iye been caught in that stream this year and one day last week a fisherman at Water Valley caught two that, weighed 40 pounds, one weighing almost 22 and the other a little more than 18. He sold the two for $4. Itching, protruding or blind piles yield Co Doan’s Ointment. Chronic cases soon relieved, finally cured. Druggists all sell It