Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1913 — HERBERT C. MAY LANDED BIG FISH [ARTICLE]

HERBERT C. MAY LANDED BIG FISH

Monon Officials Return from Outing in Wisconsin and Bring Specimens of Skill. Lafayette Journal. H. C. May, superintendent of motive power of the Monon railroad, and family; Walter May and wife, father and mother of Mr. May, And W. H. Strang, traveling engineer of the Monon, and wife, returned Saturday afternoon from an outing at Lac Du Flambeaux, Wis. They stopped in a cabin on the Chippewa Indian reservation and spent the time fishing for bass and mu«kellunge. They were unusually successful and, by their Indian guides, werfc taken to all the best fishing grounds. Kay captured the largest fish, a muskellunge welgning twenty pounds, while Mrs. May

came In for her share of the honors by catching one weighing thirteen pounds. Mr. Strang was also very successful, catching a number of the kings of the finny tribe. Mra. Strang proved the champion bass angler of the party, landing fourteen fine specimens In one day. During their absence the par* sent boxes of fish to the Children s Home and to St. Elizabeth’s hospital. They also sent a fine box of fish to the boys and men at the general offices of the Monon shops and to the dispatchers’ offices at the Salem street station. They brought quite a fine lot home with them fol their friends. All the party are brown and hale from their outing and say they had one of the most enjoyable times of their lives.