The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22
THE NATIVES
Fisherman Gets Big String of Trout
Where None Were Expected.

Where None Were Expected.
All Cross Mills has been fishing
in Cold brook for the last ten days,
says the New York Times. Nobody
ever fsheG there before within the
memory of the Oldest inhabitant, but
ten days ago Joel White, who has a
cottage on Charleston beach, came
down from Providence and started to
fish the tiny stream.
For Cold brook is only about 200
yards long and its greatest width is
about four feet. 1t runs out of the
mill pond under the Post road and
through a meadow into the salt pond,
Nobody wei heard Of anything but
smelts and eel being caught in Cold
brook. Consequently when Joel
White came down the Post road with
a light bamboo rod and a can Of n
gleworms and dropped his hook into
Cold brook there were a few remarks
not calculated to inspire the angler
with brotherly love toward the critic.
But Joel White only grinned and
kept on fishing. Hes been coming
to Charlestown beach for a good
many years, and is reckoned as n Of
the townspeople. Therefore all felt
perfectly free to speak their minds
regarding his piscatOrial dOings.
John Greene came down the road
from the post office just as White let
down the hook for the first time.
"What We fishin' fer, Joel?" he
asked. "Suckers?"
"I'm fishing for anything that'll
bite" replied White. Didn't know
but there might be a trout or so in
the brook-water's good and cold"
"Yep," admitted Greene, "wa-
ter's good 'n'cold in the sody foun-
tain up to Hoxsie's store, but TdOn't
s'pose y'd find many trout there. l
, don't s'pose-goshl We got a strike,
sure 'nough"
A strike it was, albeit a gentle one,
and in a few seconds White landed a
trout that would weigh possibly a
quarter of a pound.
! How about it?" he queried, with.
/ a grin. whats that you were say
!, ing about fishing in a soda fOun-
tain?"
! White fshed the 200 yards of Cold
brook in an hour and a half and he
got the most amazing string Of trout
caught in the town in 80 years.
There were only IL of them, but they
:, weighed over Is pounds. The largest
:. one balanced the scales at two and
= three-quarter pounds, and the rest
= ran all the way down to a quarter Of
. a pound.
. White took the string up to Prov
> idence, where he had their pictures
F.. taken with his own. Afterward there
:, was a royal fish dinner at the Uni
versity club.
. That's why all Cross's Mills has
. been fishing in Cold brook for the
last ten days. Half a dozen good
ones were caught after Joel Whites
> exploit, one Of them about the size
Of his largest. There are various the
Z cries as to how the fish got into Cold
- brook. That most generally accept
; ed holds that they must have come
= from Kenyon's pond. James Ken
yon, a Providence lumber merchant,
stocked his artificial pond two OF
three years ago, and it is thought the
trout must have come through hi:
d dam into the salt pond, through the
salt water, and up Cold brook
/ This theory gains weight from the
e e fact that Kenyon's pond was fished
Il recently with practically no results
Another party holds that trout
y will not enter salt water under any
}! circumstances. However that may
u be, Joel Whites catch is the wonder
II of the season in Cross's Mills.
lie