Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-05-18
BAREFOOT MAIDS BRING
DlSMAY TO THE FISHES
Wade in the Purling Waters of
Jones Creek and Seek
tho Coy Trout

Armed with fishing rods and lunch
baskets, a party of school teachers
started out last Saturday to try their
luck in the angling line. The party
was chaperoned by Mrs. Geo. E. Good
and Mrs. R. o. McCroskey. and Miss
Lucille McCroskey also accompanied
them. The teachers participating in
the days sport were Misses George,
Guthrie, Bridge, Walker, Agnew,
Peck, Holgate, Poole and Heslin.
Arriving at Jones Creek, the fun
began but for some reason, best
known to the fish, they would not bite
SO close to the shore, so the ladies
concluded to wade out after them,
and this they did-after discarding
their shoes-proceeding out into mid :
stream. Luck was better here so far
as fish We're concerned, but something
happened which was very annoying to
the ladies, but seemingly very anus.
ing to some other people. Fishing in
mid-stream is such sport that nobody
noticed buggy approach the stream
and proceed to cross quite close to
where the girls were fishing. How
ever, as, the buggy contained three
gentlemen. they were not long in max
ing their presence known, and they
had quite lot of amusement at the
girls expense. But the old adage
"he laughs best who laughs last was
never more true than in this case, for
so intent were the gentlemen in
watching the sport that they became
reckless in their driving and after
having crossed the creek and started
up the incline on the other side, the
horse went over bad place in the
road and broke some part of the har-
ness. causing the buggy to run back
down the hill into the water, and the
gentlemen were detained for some
time mending the break down, but
they were, perhaps, not so irate over
this as they would have been under
other circumstances.
As the moon hour approached a
most elaborate dinner was spread by
Mesdames Good aud McCroskey, and
the hungry girls were hidden to the
feast. At this important point in the
proceedings, Gene Good happened
accidentally of course
and was invited to psrtake of the
good things. As there was not
another man present, Gene took pity
on the lone ladies and was finally per-
suaded to dine with them.
After dinner the sport continued and
the school ma'ams proved beyond
doubt that they were quite as capable
Of handling the rod 10 the water as
they were in the schoolroom. for they
quite number of fish during
the day. Miss Gdthrie, however,
was told that the reason was because
she kept her line in one place all the
time, she declared that she did moth
ng of the kind, but lust kept jerk
ng it up and down all the time |"
Strange, she did not get bite Miss
Bridge was more successful-she hav.
ng caught sucker almost as large as
ierself. This sounds "'fishy" but the |
teachers declare it's so.
But now comes the strange part Of |
he adventure. 1t is reported that q
arge number of dead fish were found |
n the creek in the vicinity where the |
,irls waded-but there now, we prom.
sed not to say word about that, and |
We won't. At any rate the ladies
leclare they never enjoyed q day more |
han this one, and 1t will be long re.
nembered by them. The honors were
,arried of by Miss George, who |
'aught the largest number of fish and |
Hiss Bridge who caught the largest |
ucker.