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Show should not to given out trill yr, tat held for next yVa turnament - Wm Woodruff, oar iKMnwd Pre, ef this exclusive organization, had tod hick wd dident tote nothing but mm sucker. FISH KETCHmG TURNAMBHT. eMtmaamtammatma-M ' - Eootchic Pond Tieta If Its Trisboris ti BinzviRi Fish KitcMnf CIlI-Ki Prizi Clvi , Out is tittil Tizaj Bartsr ' Ketches Kost Fish The annual nab ketcbinf turnament of tha Bini-rille Pith Ketchiof Oub. which hat not been told for seven veara. wat told latt Mondy amid (rata excitement at Ceotchic Pond. A feed cal of nth wat caufht and a pleatant time were had by everyboddy eretent with the exception ef Bill Hepburn, eur artierkk blacksmith, who drank a littel too much lickcr and tot a efful beadake the next day. Tto Prea. ef tha Blntvffla Pith Ketching Club ia Wet Woodruff, em expert hunter and trapper; who nitot for picture, bkewito for proffit in tto tununer mot, and Wet it terrible knowint about tto waya ef nth. to beint able to tell you what a tab it thinklnt at any fven time. Prea. Woodruff ittued a call to tto members of tto club for tto turnament latt wk. to to told thit wfc, and at everyboddy in town it a member ef the club except Bod Hinckley, who lin't quite right in hie toad and who cant tell a nth from a ear ef cent, the town was deterted. Epfc Hifirint, eur ac-eommodatinf ac-eommodatinf P. M, declared a lefal holliday, and Hen Weatheriby thet down bit eenl ttore. Wet had fiftered k eut ahead ef time that trouta wat to count 5 pte pickerel 4 pta.. black beta 4 pta, bom-poutt bom-poutt 3 ntt ealt 2 Dta and ahmara an4 tuckers 1 pt With thit under eta rid ra the club etarted on matt front Bingville Bing-ville at 5 :30 a. m. for Gootchic Gootchic wat reached at 6:36, and immejiately, without awaitin tto word of the esteemed Pres. of tto club. Ante! Gookina undone hit hook and went te make a catt out mto tto water, but hit hook flew through the air and caught Bale Hawkint juat south ef hit panta pocket and Bale let out a offul yell, tignifficant of deep horror. Tto hook wat removed with tome pain to Bale, which was not made lets te him by the laffter of the ether membert ef tto club at hit angwish. Fith ketching then begun in dead earnert, and the first one to score wat littel Tommy Barker, who pulled eut a whopping bit trout on a bent pin hook.' Immejiately afterward! Tommy ketehed a pickerel on tto tame hook. Tommy 1 taid it wai on acc't of the fith beint rhtrroed by the way to Spit oa hit bait Tto ether membert tpft on their bait, but k done no good. Rev. Saml Moore, ear beloved pastor, pas-tor, ketehed a big eal and yanked him forth from hit elltment, to to tpeak, with euch force that tto eal continued backward over the Rev. Sam'l't head ind caught Seth Dewberry, our torekk town conttabble. right in the faee. 8eth wat tumble profane ever tto in ti dent ind mentioned tome very profane nt met right in the hearing of, Rev. Moore, who diden't teem to care much. At 4 e'etk in the afternoon tto turnament turna-ment wat declared at a end. and it wat then found that Tommy Barker bad naae tnc Biggest score, having caugm 14 fishes, and scored a grand tone ef I 17 pt!. Tommy ia tech a httel f eller hat Wes allowed that tto prise, ceo. liating of a guar. doL pair ef gaDnaea, |