Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-13
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The Faie OF a Fish.


stunt in this story. The facts were carefully
verified before it was written because it deal;
with subject which figures prominently il
| current fiction, and for other reasons
Know Art Mosenfelder. don't you? Exactly
t-Mosenfelder < Sons, clothiers, l709-17l1 Sec
| ond avenue, boys suits a specially.
/ Well, Art has a camp out on Rock river
where he lives in summer time to be near the
little fishes, for he is fisherman par excel
Ience, ne plus ultra, ex post facto, c. o. d. and
by any other means that may suggest them
selves, according to Hoyle or otherwise. He
isn't particular about the bait.
Art is what might be termed finished
asherman-a fresh fish fancier. He always
keeps few around the place TO pet and Splay
with And that, he claims. is how he hap
pened to have experience quite unique and
without precedent in local piscatoriaI annals.
Not long ago a misguided catfish, weight
Is pounds, strayed up Rock river to the steel
dam and there the inevitable happehed-some-
body caught it. Knowing Arts weakness the
lucky angler put a So price tag on it, towed it
over to camp, and in due time became richer
to the extent of Tour ninety-eight, while the
cat took I'D its abode in the Mosenfelder fish
box. 1t had company there two other spec
linens of It's own kind weighing respectively
3 and pounds, obtained in a manner. which
it is not necessary to reveal. SO you see Art
did not really need the 25-pounder either for
food or for company. He just couldn't resist
the bargain, that was all.
The big cat found its new homo rather
cramped. 1t couldn't stretch out to its fulE
length and it led an unhappy existence there
for about a week Its owner was kind and
often petted and talked to il, but it yearned
to roam once more and so one fine morning
when one of it's smaller companions accident
ally stuck horn in its ribs it gave an extra
violent aOp and kicked out the side of the pen
And so it happened that three piscatorial pets
went back to their native habitat and Mr.. Mos
enfelder was discOnsolate
Days passed also nights, and then another
fisherman was lucky at the steel dam Art
heard that another 25-pound cat had been
caught and he went to look it over By GER
tain marks of Identification he established the
fact that il was the fish he formerly owned and
he promptly bought it again, paying 1893 for
it. Afterward he is quoted as saying II
wouldn't have given that fish up for S25," but
the chap he "~zght it from the second time was
not deceived.
Art is taking no chances now with a fish
box He has his prize fastened to the roots
of tree with log chain and paddock
All of which goes to show what kind of a
chance full grown fish has got when il.
wanders up Rock river to the neighborhood OF
the steel dam.
An Instructor in the University of North
Dakota is walking 500 miles carrying only his
fiddle. planning TO earn his keep enroute from
his music Bum notes, so to speak.
Mrs. Amos Toote. Waterloo. Iowa. has be-
gun suit for divorce Too much tOote pre-
lumably. The prohibitionists might use the
case as an example in the new lands they have I
set out to conquer.
The coroner of Cook county says you can't I
make love and drive car at the same time"
But. take il from Gwendolyn, you can if you /
ct her do the driving.
former United States senator very rich |
Ind nearing so. has married nurse who at |
ended him through serious illness. She is /
lot one-third his age This ought to serve as /
IN impetus to the fattening of the size of the /
text batch OF nursing graduates. /
Illinois Church to Bar All who FIirt With
But how are the frts 10
,e detected? |
President Wilson says he was lonesome in
Washington. He is growing to be a gourmsnd
or excitement. When he is through with the
presidency we wouldn't be surprised to hear
# him becoming a football coach or something
It's been only a few months since the re-
urned soldier was the hero of society Now
ook at the fuss that is being made over the
id from Great Britain. T.
"Autoist Runs Down and Injuries Man: /,
peeds On."-Headline. Some day, in self
efense. pedestrians are going to arm them
elves and there are going to be few murders
4 this fair land unless the heartless auto
ilot mends his methods. The public patience
as about reached the breaking point
JMC