Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1914 — Eugene C. Shireman Named State Game Commissioner. [ARTICLE]

Eugene C. Shireman Named State Game Commissioner.

Governor Ralston has announced the appointment of Eugene C. Shireman, of Martinsville, to succeed the late George W. Miles as state fish and game commissioner. Mr. Shireman’s commission is for a period of four years. Mr. Miles’s term, had he lived, would have expired next May. Mr. Shireman is a successful businessman as well as a lover of sports. He is 38 years old and a graduate of DePauw university. For ten years he has been interested in the propogation of fish. He first began the cultivation of bass, but more recently he has become interested in the propogation of gold fish. He and his brother, Max Shireman, now own what is said to be the largest “gold fish farm” in the country. ' The “farm”, with fifteen small ponds in operation, produced-.250,-000 gold fish last year and it is expected that, with the addition of seventy-five more ponds, the fish propogated next summer will number more than 1,000,000. Mr. Shireman is Interested in the protection and propogation of game as well as the cultivation of fish.