The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-07-07
SPORTSMAN WRITES
COMMUNICATION IN
INTEREST Of GAME
WOULD HAVE ANOTHER MEETING
LIKE THAT HELD FIRST MON
DAY IN MARCH.
ALSO WANTS Big FAST
Calls Attention TO The Spread That
Was Prepared In Williamson County
To Which Many Maury countIans
Were Invited.

On the first Monday in last March
there was a mass meeting of citizens
held at the Court House in Columbia
which was well attended, State Game
b Warden, Hon. w. D. Howser, being
present. Also delegation OF citizens
from Williamson county.
Several fine addresses were made
and amidst great enthusiasm the
Maury-Wiliiamson Fish and Game Pro
tective Association was organized
with president, vice-president and
secretary.
The object of this organization was
to further the protection and propa-
CATION of the Ash and game of the
state: the fullest enforcement OF all
the fish and game laws OF the state,
and the establishment OF q state fsh
hatchery somewhere in this section OF
Tennessee.
Early in April the citizens Of WI.
hanson county spread splendid ban
uuet. at which one hundred and fifty
covers were laid, and a large delega-
ton of Columbians were present, as
we're Governor Rye, State Game War
den Howser and several other promi-
nent citizens OF, the state, and this
meeting, too, was held in the interest
OF the Williamson Fish and
Game Protective association.
On their return home. each ana
everyone OF the Columbia delegation
promised themselves and each other
that we should have another meeting
at Columbia in the near future to show
our appreciation of the royal treatment
at Franklin and to keep up the interest
and enthusiasm in the organization of
this game and fish protective associa-
1 ton. But, boys, we have all laid
lown on the job, haven't we? So, In
the language Of Uncle Mute. "Come on
No. m ST. I'll b,
fBoys"' (for all real sportsmen are boys
at hearth, and let's get together and
call another meeting real soon to get
this organization perfected, draft set
of bylaws, rules and regulations and
open books for membership and put
five hundred names on the roll by the
time the hunting season opens. Every
sportsman In the county should and
will enroll, every man that likes to
fish and there are many, every man
that likes to shoot, every man that
loves wild life and the great open
world of woods, field and stream,
should enroll And Mr. Farmer, above
all Others should enroll in this very
essential organization for it will prove
a greater benefit to you than all others,
in the protection Of the birds which
destroy millions Of harmful insects and
noxious weed seeds, that would soon
multiply and ruin your crops II 1t
were not for these some birds that we
now ask you in common fairness to
help perfect an organization to protect
and to propagate
While. we would like very much to
see a fish hatchery established in this
section, life we can only perfect this
organization and get its members to
see to the strict enforcement Of the
game and fish laws in his section the
fish will take care Of themselves. as
the beneficial results of one seasons
protection are very potent to any OBJ
server. And as the spawning season
Just past has been the best in twenty
years, with more rigid and thorough
protection are streams would soon be
teeming with fine food fishes as they
were In our boyhood days. So, Mr.
President and Mr.. Secretary. let's gel
busy and have another rousing meet
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