Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1913 — Fish Behave Scandalous in a River of Beer [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Fish Behave Scandalous in a River of Beer

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—Thousands of fish In the Mlssissinewa river, In the Hoosiar state, acquired a free jag the other day, when the beer in the vats of the Indiana Brewery were emptied into it. And the way they acted was enough to call forth a set of resolutions from the Indianapolis W. C. T. U. Catfish, carp, white suckers, redhorse and bass behaved something scandalous. They reeled and staggered and threw flip-flaps in the air. Men and boys came from several miles around, when they heard of the bun party, and gathered in the drunks. Every once in a while a bunch of bullheads and pouts that had sworn eternal fealty to each other came to the surface, waved their flippers at the crowd on\ the shore and sang: “Hall! Hall! The gang’s all here.” Next thing they knew they were on the bank with a string through their gills. The big catfish that climbed a mooring stake under the impression that It was a barber pole was hospitably received by a boy with a tin bucket The. redhorse that was carrying home a Welsh rarebit and some toasted marshmallows in a paper ice

cream box, with the idea of placating his wife, was nabbed while he was looking for the keyhole. The convivial party of young suckers that tumbled into a landing net for the purpose of going on a Jcjy ride, were easy. As for those that swam ashore and laid down for fear they would fall out of the water —it was almost a sin to take theni. It all came about, because the Indiana Brewing company had notified the deputy internal collector of the district that it would cease manufacturing beer before the end of July. Tho beer was measured and it was found there were barrels in the tanks. The revenue officer at once prepared to drain this through pipes into the sewer, and soon it was running into the Mlssissinewa river.