Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1913 — Game Warden Says There Will Be No Sunday Hunting. [ARTICLE]

Game Warden Says There Will Be No Sunday Hunting.

This year will be the last in which Indiana nimrods can engage in hunting on Sunday. Rodney Fleming, of Ft. Wayne, chief of the Indiana fish and game wardens, has announced that he will not allow Sunday shooting next year. This is due to the protests made by the farmers of the state against the practice. The farmers, however, do not ask that Mr. Fleming stop Sunday shooting this year. “Of course,” said Mr. Fleming, “I will have to stop Sunday shooting when the farmesr demand it, as the law specifically states that Sunday hunting is illegal. Heretofore, this feature of the law has not been rigidly enforced, as public sentiment has seemed to favor Sunday hunting. Next year, though, we will notallow any shooting on Sunday.

“I really believe, though, that the elimination of Sunday hunting will work to the advantage of hunters generally. It is Sunday hunting that particularly agitates the farmers. When hunters shoot on their grounds on Sunday it makes the farmers mad and they get after the hunters on week days, too. If the hunters did not shoot on their grounds on Sundays, I don’t believe they would care how much hunting was done on their land on the week days.”