Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — An Ohio Sportaman. [ARTICLE]

An Ohio Sportaman.

There lives in the vicinity of Columbus, 0., a rich farmer who is so contrary that he coppers whatever his neighLorß may do. Recently they got together and agreed that their lands must be posted If they expected to have a quail or a squirrel, a ’possum or a coon left in the county. Accordingly it was done. Signs painted In gory letters suddenly stared the sportsman In the face, and guns and fishing tackle dropped thirty points In the market. Our country Irlend decided that he would not post his land, and, In direct opposition to his neighbor, set up a score of these signs about his 5,000 acres of rich bottom on the banks of the Olentangy: “Shoot and fish all you please on this land. And when the horn blows come to dinner.” He is the most popular man In the county, and-the hunters and fishermen have offered him any office that may be at disposal of the electorate.