Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1913 — “Say-When John” Is Sure One Lucky Fisherman [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

“Say-When John” Is Sure One Lucky Fisherman

CLEVELAND, O. —Is there anybody who lost a watch in Rocky river at 13 minutes after 3 o’clock. “Say-When John,” Nelse Peterson’s trusty lieutenant on the Cleveland Yacht club’s island at the mouth of the river, is asking that question of everybody he meets ofi Billy White’s corner, “up the hilt" John didn’t feel strong enough to work the other day, so he dug over an acre or two of ground for half a pint of worms and went fishing. It was an Important expedition because he was to try out officially a fishhook which his brother had sent him from Norway. John dropped his hook in the current of Rocky river. Immediately something grabbed it and started upstream with it. John jumped into the water and after herculean efforts snaked a thirty-pound (inspected scales) carp ashore. ' The catch was too heavy to carry hams intact, so John drew his knife and opened the fish's vest. Inside

the stomach he found a watch in perfect condition, the hand* stopped at 13 'minute* after 3 o’clock. At first he didn't know whether to part with th* watch. He was offered 15 for it and refused to sell. Later, however, he was taken with a terrible case of stomach cramps after eating some of the carp. This, taken in connection with th* fact that the fish was caught on Friday and that the watch stopped at IS minutes after 3 o’clock, has convinced him that the tim*p'ece is soaked with bad luck. Now he is looking for the owner or th* man who offered him tW five.