Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1914 — A Fish Story From Lake County. [ARTICLE]

A Fish Story From Lake County.

‘ Lowell correspondence to Lake County Star: On account of the recent rains the swarms of carp, buffalo and other fish that had entered the ditches near Shelby to spawn were washed over the banks into poo’s in the fields, where hundreds of them were caught with pitchforks and by hand. Some of them are monsters. Everybody in the neighborhood of the ditches are eating fish and many of them found their way to Lowell.