Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1916 — Another Wolf Drive Is Planned For February 4. [ARTICLE]

Another Wolf Drive Is Planned For February 4.

A Medaryville dispatch tells of a wolf drive that is to take place oh JFeb. 4th, which is Friday of next week. The message states that .Charles W. Bussell, of Hanging Grove township, and Ben Turner, Trustee R. E. Davis, Frank Hirshpian, George Miller and other hunters are managing the drive. It says that Chicago motion picture men have agreed to be present and make pictures. The article, which seems to be considerably overdrawn, says that at least two thousand men and boys are expected to take part and that the area to be surrounded will be equal to two townships. The lines are to be formed at 9:30 and all will be in readiness for the start at 10 o’clock. Hot lunch will, says the dispatch, await the hunters at the roundup. . . ' ' The article-launches into a little effort at sensationalism that makes it somewhat objectionable when it speaks of the wild swamps and timber regions of northern Jasper county and tells how the wolves have .been preying upon the flocks and poultry of the scattered farmers until they have called for relief. It takes about that sort of sensationalism to get space in a city newspaper but we feel just a little resentful because it is not true. There are no wild swamps and woods in northern Jasper and the wolves are far from extensive. The last round-up failed to locate any. It is .believed there are some and the hunters 'hope to locate them on the next drive, but the hunt is organized more particularly for the sport than for any other purpose and we don’t want persons living in other parts of the state and in Chicago to get the idea that there are sections of northern- Jasper county that are wastes and valueless. When the hunters gather for the drive they should price some of the land in the “wild and wooly” section of Indiana and they will find that it is worthy of a better reputation than some are trying to give it.