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RECREATION. 



EARN A GOLD BADGE. 



Every member of the L. A. S. should 

 wear the badge, yet thousands of these good 

 men have never yet had one. This is due, 

 in most cases, to neglect. Many a man 

 has come into my office to make a social 

 or business call, and while here has bought 

 a badge, remarking that he had intended to 

 do so ever since he joined the League, but 

 had put it off from time to time. 



Here is a chance to get a gold badge for 

 rn hour's work and better still a chance to 

 do the cause of game protection a lasting 

 service. 



Ihe Executive Committee of the League 

 has decided to give a gold badge to each 

 member who will send in 10 applications 

 for membership, together with a money 

 order for $10, before January I, 1904. This 

 gold badge is of itself an ornament that 

 any man may well feel proud of, and its 

 value would be greatly enhanced to anyone 

 who might earn it in the manner suggested. 

 You can get these 10 applications in an 

 hour if you will turn out and hustle. 



This offer should bring in 10,000 applica- 

 tions within the next few months. Let us 

 ree what it will do. 



do it again, but all the same his name will 

 go down in the fish hog book and his num- 

 ber is 910. — Editor. 



BIG HAUL OF DYNAMITERS. 



Complaint having been made to the Blair county 

 branch of the League of American Sportsmen at 

 Uollidaysburg that a large number of fish had 

 been dynamited near Cove Forge Tuesday morn- 

 ing by a gang of Italian laborers living near that 

 pi_.ee, a special officer of the League was sent to 

 the forge yesterday to investigate the matter. As 

 a result 9 men were arrested and taken to Will- 

 iamsburg, where Judge Charles Patterson sen- 

 tenced 3 leaders of the gang, Joe Dafonzo, Paul 

 Scuderi and Isaac Denmark, each to pay a fine of 

 $100 and costs, amounting to $21, or undergo an 

 imprisonment in the county jail for 6 months. Af- 

 ter spending the night in the new borough lockup 

 at Williamsburg the prisoners were taken to jail 

 at Hollidaysburg the next morning, where they 

 now are. 



This case, which is the 8th this season in which 

 convictions have been secured by the League, 

 breaks the record for quick work by its officers. 

 Within 48 hours from the time the offense was 

 committed the culprits had begun to serve their 

 sentences of 6 months each in jail. — Altoona, Pa., 

 Mirror. 



PREMATURE FISHING EXPENSIVE. 



The Blair county branch of the League of 

 American Sportsmen is determined to break up 

 the practice of fishing trout streams before the 

 opening of the legal season, April 15. Friday of 

 last week G. W. Kough, a prominent citizen of 

 the Northern section of the county, was arraigned 

 by W. H. Gardner, secretary of the branch, be- 

 fore a magistrate of the locality, charged with 

 catching and -having in his possession 20 brook 

 trout contrary to the act of assembly. The full 

 penalty of $200 and costs was exacted from the 

 culprit. Similar violators will please take notice 

 that the law designed for the protection of fish 

 and game will be enforced in this country without 

 fear or favor. — Exchange. 



A good wholesome price to pay for pre- 

 mature trout. Kough will probably never 



-LEAGUE MEMBER APPOINTED. 



Mr. Charles L. Miller, who was recently ap 

 pointed one of the 5 members of the new State 

 fisheries Commission, is a prominent member of 

 the Blair county branch of the League of Ameri- 

 can Sportsmen. The League feels much honored 

 by the appointment of one of its leading members 

 to a position of prominence in the counsels of 

 the commonwealth's new commission. — Pennsyl- 

 vania Paper. 



This is another important recognition by 

 a high executive of the good material to be 

 found in this League. The time will soon 

 come when the Governors of the various 

 States will know that one of the primary 

 qualifications of any man seeking an ap- 

 pointment in any fish or game department 

 must be a membership card in the L. A. S. 



LEAGUE NOTES. 



In your article on what the League of 

 American Sportsmen had done in regard 

 to new laws stopping the sale of game you 

 omitted Oklahoma Territory., Please give 

 us credit for getting an amendment through 

 last winter stopping the sale on all protect- 

 ed game and cutting off one month ' on 

 quails. 



A. C. Cooper, Fort Sill, Okla. 



A reward of $25 has been offered by the Blair 

 county branch of the League of American Sports- 

 men for information leading to the arrest and 

 conviction of any person or persons illegally using 

 or operating a seine or using dynamite in any of 

 the waters of Blair county for the purpose of 

 taking, killing or destroying fish in violation of 

 the act of 1901. The penalty for the above of- 

 fense is $100 fine and 6 months' jail imprison- 

 ment. The informer is also entitled to one-half 

 the fine. — Exchange. 



The McElhattan Chapter of the L. A. S. 

 is in a flourishing condition. Every mem- 

 ber has been active in getting ready for 

 the coming season and all feel confident that 

 the day of the game hog is past in this lo- 

 cality. 



A. B. Winchester, Rear Warden, 



McElhattan, Pa. 



There are thousands of men in the 

 United States who should be life mem- 

 bers of this League. Why don't they join? 

 Will someone please take a club and waken 

 them ? 



Have you decided what to send your 

 friends for a Christmas present? Why not 

 a year's subscription to Recreation? In 

 what other way could you give them so 

 much pleasure for the money? 



