Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1913 — Gets Lease of 50 Acres For One Year for 3 Fish. [ARTICLE]

Gets Lease of 50 Acres For One Year for 3 Fish.

John N. Beckman, a Hammond real estate dealer 'and a former member of the Indiana legislature, Tuesday gave a one-year lpase on his fifty acre farm to Joe Loesh, the consideration being there catfish. The land is located in the Kankakee swamp and Is untillable. It is, however, a fine fishing preserve, popular with Chicago sportsmen, who in the past have never asked permission to fish them Beckman was about to hire a custodian when his friend Loesh came along and tempted him with three catfish for the exclusive privilege of fishing on the farm.