Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1916 — LOTS OF PUBLICITY ABOUT WOLF HUNT [ARTICLE]

LOTS OF PUBLICITY ABOUT WOLF HUNT

New Yorkers Don’t Believe There Is Any “Sech Thing”—Cameras Played Important Part. r* ■ - •< _ ' * Rensselaer was in the date line of papers from coast to coast on account of the wolf drive in Walker township last week. Chicago papers played the hunt to a finish and other papers took it up. E. A. Bartmess, manager for the Standard Oil Co., in Yonkers, N. Y., saw an article about the hunt in The New York Times and clipped it out and sent it to his cousin, Mrs. J. D. Allman, with a brief request asking if this could be true. Most people in New York consider the wolf an entirely extinct animal, while others think that Indiana is way out in the wild and wooly. Picture film houses are always ready to take advantage of opportunities for sensational pictures and it is said that three moving picture machines were on the job in Walker township. It is said that one enterprising house sent a big yellow dog that resembled a wolf to that township and then secured the services of a number of the hunters to make the picture, turning the dog loose and having him shot by the hunters. As previously stated in this -paper the hunt resulted in a failure, owing to an incomplete ring. Trustee Davis, of Kankakee township, thinks there are eighteen or twenty wolves in that section. Possibly another drive' can be arranged. If advertised widely it is probable that many more men could be procured to take pajrt in it.