The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-07
STATE SHIPPING FISH here
Thousand Pounds Of Suckers, Carp, Sun
fish and Cat Fish Coming to Kenosha
Thursday People Can Get Them
at Record Price at City Hall.

Old General High Cost Of Living is
going to get swat right on the nose
in Kenosha on Thursday and the swat
is going to bear on it the seal Of the
city Of Kenosha. Mayor Charles HI.
Pfennig this morning decided to open
fish market and next Thursday after
noon, long about four O'Clock, the
mayor and City Sealer Felix Meyer
win don white aprons and begin
cutting and selling fish,
There is going to be a wide range
of the kind of fish, but when it comes
to price the cash register is going to
ring up nickel pound no matter
what you get. There will be suckers
and red horse, sunfsh and carp and
maybe there will be a pickerel and an
eel slipped in here and there in the
consignment. The distribution of the
fish is with the consent and aid
of the state conservation department
and under tie direction of the State
Council Of Defense.
For the past month the state has
been coping up fish in cages in lot
Of the inland lakes. 1t is admitted
that most Of the game fish are not
being Gagged, but it is declared that the
fish that, are caught make excellent
food products and their cheapness
recommends them Mayor Pfennig
took up the matter with the State
Council of Defense several days ago
and this morning received letter
from A. II Melville, the secretary,
stating that Kenosha s first order for
thousand pounds of the fish had been
accepted and the fish will be shipped
probably early Thursday morning or
late Wednesday night. The fish will
be taken from the waters of the lake
and placed in ice and shipped
directly to Kenosha SO that thew
will be in excellent condition when
they reach here.
The mayor is going to prove to the
people of Kenosha that he is willing to
get ON the economy special and he is
going to be the very first customer when
the big boxes of fish are opened.
"T have gone into this matter with
a good deal Of care" said the mayor
this morning, "and / am convinced
that the people will find these fish
mighty good eating. They will be alb
solutely fresh from the lakes and in
Milwaukee, Oshkosh and other cities
where the state has sold the fish thew
have found an immediate market.
The city is not going to make money
off the distribution of the fish. The
state charges US four cents pound for
Them to cover the cost of catching. The
extra cent will be to cover the cost of
handling them. We are not going to
deliver or clean the fish and the people
must be willing to do their bit by car
rying them home and scaling them.
My friend, Mayor Dan Hoan of Mil
waukee, is declared to be a confirmed
fish eater now and he is seeing to it
that Milwaukee people cut their meat
bin considerable by the sale Of these
fish. Milwaukee is now getting five
thousand pounds of fish twice week.
There will be no preferred customers.
in the distribution and the fish will be
sold to people as they come If the
people show desire to cut the cost
Of living BY buying these fish further
shipments will be ordered"
The hour for distribution has been
set for four O'Clock in the afternoon
20 as to make it possible for the PEG
pie to send the school children to make
the purchases. OF course all purchases
must be made for cash as the city does
rot plan to open a set of books or
charge fish bills on the tax roll.
The experiment Of "nickel pound =
fish will DC watched with interest by
lot Of Kenosha people.