Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1914 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country, SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns.—Matteis of Minor Mention From Many Places. Remington Man Lands a 13-Poiiml Salmon. Elmer Zink, of Remington. happened to be here yesterday when Dr. Erie Cowger caught his big salmon, and growing jealous of the doctor's success as a fishenhan took a rod. pole and patent minnow and going down to the river, back of the lib rary, inside of three hours after the doctor s catch, and in less than one hour of fishing duplicated Erie’s catch jn both weight and length, lacking only two Ounces of thirteen pounds. Cowger makes the assertion that Dick Hasirbiller was so excited over the first fish that he almost jumped off Chits brow of the hill to the bottom in his hurry to get to the stream and catch the mate that Zink got.—Saturday’s Monticello Journal.