Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
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Two disconsolate bass fishermen
OF Harrisburg are E. d. Hilleary,
division freight agent for the Read
ing at this point, and George w.
Reinoehl, division manager for the
Bell Telephone Company in this dis
trict. Both have been watching the
streams hungrily this summer.
waiting for the rains to let up long
enough to clear the waters sufficient-
ly to make bass fishing good. In
desperation Hllieary to-day packed
his rods and hied himself away to
the preserves of the Union water
works. near Lebanon. It's been so
long since I've seen a bass that /
don't believe I'd know one from a
sunfish,' he said, land it's been so
long since L caught fish that il 1
should get half q dozen sunfish I'd
carry 'em on a string all the way
home" ReinoehPs favorite haunt is
Tuscarora creek and some of his
friends say that the sugar. cured hara
they serve at the farmhouses ue
there Is almost as attractive as the
bass, although every time he goes he
comes back with some big fellows,
Another ardent Harrisburg fisher
man is Bob Lyons, the coffee man.
| Lyons leaves for Atlantic City this
| week where he will engage in surf
nshlng, at which he is an adept, for
| the next two weeks. Lyons has more
nshlng tackle of every kind than any
man In Harrisburg. He has q whole
room full of 1t. From the time the
trout season opens until the last
strlke OF the black bass in the Fall,
| there are few weeks that do not
ma Lyons along one of the rivers or
creeks in this vicinity when he
can't get to the seashore. During the
winter season he occupies his time
nlaking RODS and some of the finest
IN MS collection he has turned out
hlmself. He is an authority on all
kinds of artificial bait for bass and
all over the United States when bait
makers turn out something new in
plugs or tackle they send Lyons
one for sample. He has more vicious
looking lures than any man in town
and he knows how to use them SO
well that he seldom, If ever, returns
| from fishing trip empty handed.
| Strange to say he cares little or
nothing for fish as a diet, which is
highly pleasing to his many friends.
About the Union station in this
city there are scattered signs which
read
SPLITTING IS
| UNLAWFUL
The other day one of the janitors
in cleaning up found that some wag
had chalked over a part of one OF
the placards making it rea B.:
SPLITTING IS
AWFUL
The I North Americans fishing
page of last Sunday contains lengthy
| reference to the success Edison j.
Hockenbury, the well-known Harris
burg Y, M. c. A. campaigner, is hav-
ing at Wildwood Crest, where he is
spending the summer with his fam
lily. Hockenbury has caught three
large channel bass of the kind pic
tured by the TELEGRAPH some
weeks ago, and has taken any num-
Der of shark and other fish. He will
remain at the shore until Labor
Day.
William N. Trinkle, former deputy
attorney general and now located
here as member of the law firm of
Trinkle & Jones, has received
number of messages congratulating
him upon the close of the full crew
cases in which he took a prominent
part. Mr.. Trinkle was deputy under
John G. Bell, when attorney gen.
eral, and with James Scarlet made
the fight to maintain the full crew
law of 1911. He was pitted against
John G. Johnson and other legal
luminaries and has been in every
stage of the fight over the law since.
w. Orville Hickok, Sd, athlete,
motorist, manufacturer and lover of
outdoor life, likewise sergeant in the
Harrisburg Reserves, is getting to be
as proficient with the rifle as he Is
with the shotgun. For years Mr..
Hickok has been banging away at
the gun clubs about this city when
the hunting season was not on. He
has been making some pretty fine
records at 1t and he had a real
old-fashioned match the other day
with Fred Godcharles, Deputy Sec
retary of the Commonwealth, who is
as keen on trap shooting as he is
on philately and the history of the
upper Susquehanna valley. The next
day Mr.. Hickok went over to the
creek range of the Harrisburg Rifle
Club, where he tried out his rifle and
made one of the best scores for the
range.
Roger Dever, Wilkes Barre lawyer
and prominent In labor affairs, was
here yesterday looking up compen-
sation cases. Mr.. Dever says that
the miners will ask considerable
changes in the compensation laws
again at the next session of the Leg
islature.