The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-28
Claims Nimrod Championship
 of Talladega County
BAGS BIG CATAM0UNT
Water Question Becomes Serious One to the Farmers-Negro Kills Big Fox-Thought 1t Was
 Wolf.
By WELLINGTON vANDlVER.

Talladega, November 27-(special.)- One wild cat, 'possums, 12 squirrels, six rabbits and seven quail. making a grand total of 27, represented the amount of game strung all over the person of Talladega hunter as he stood on the corner of North and East street to be photographed at g o'clock this morning. The proud possessor these results of field sports wore a game bag holding about six pecks emblazoned with the legend, "C. s. Weaker, the Farmers Friend'-a broad smile. a derby hat-and proudly carried on his shoulder single barrelled shotgun with a bore like a wash pot. His collar was off, his neck band was loose and so was his tongue and the mob around him hung open eyed on his nervous sentences. T flung off and drug that wild cat outen the briers close to my native soil-shot him six times-socked it to him with squir- rel shot-ain't he a whopper? l don't claim all the credit for shootin' him-I just drug him out Gents, you may make fun of this gun-I sell these kind at $5-but these here are the results! It ain't the gun-its the man behind the gun that gets the meat" And the proud nimrod would move on to another spot, only to be followed by a mob of ad- mirng citizens and jealous hunters who propounded sundry leading questions as to who he bought the game from and what kind of trap did he catch the balance of the game in, etc. Envy all ways follows the truly great in any walk in life! Twenty-nhne trophies in one day is the field record of Mir. c. S. Weaver, the Southside merchant, and un- til some of the amateur, pin-feather, ping-pon hunters of the Birmingham district come up to this record a proud community insists that Talladega's nim- rod is entitled to the championship.
 The catamount was two feet high, 36 inches in length and weighed Is pounds.
 The water question in the country ad- jacent to Talladega is becoming serious. People are hauling water from three to five miles to farm houses. Many springs are dry and wells that have been supposed to be perennial no longer give water. There has been no rain sufficient to wet the ground more than an inch since September l. Talladega creek has shrunk to the dimensions of an ordinary branch. As yet the city is abundantly supplied from the big spring in the cen ter of the city and Shoccho Springs con tinue to flow abundantly.
 Some years since the enthusiastic fox hunters of this county secured several pairs of foxes and turned them loose for the purpose of increasing the supply of this game. They have multiplied until fox hunting in this county is always rewarded with the brush of a reynard. Yesterday negro on the Edwards place saw an immense fex at the back of the garden and on account of it's unusual size, mistalling it for a wolf, he shot and killed it. The fox had just whipped small flee that didn't know a fox when he saw it.
 Thanksgiving day was generally ob- served Rev Frank Week delivered an eloquent and appropriate sermon at the Methodist church to the united congre- gation of the city. The majority of the merchants closed their stores all day and visited or hunted as the fancy took them. In the evening rnere was dance at EllSs' parlors participated in by the young people. the music being furnished bv ha nd iron, GadSdan