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Grey River Argus, 3 February 1917, Page 2

A* .report from a Birming-ham'^Ala-bama) paper states: For makingdrunk the fish in the Springvjlle Lake, a prominent younjr man of Birmingham was arrested and fined by^ the Sprin«ville Mayor. The fish lake, at Sprinßville is a show place. .It is about a hundred feet sciu'are, two feet deep, and has a cement enclosure. It contains thousands of carp, varying 1 in weiffht from half a pound to _ five pounds. They are quite tame, anß ea.ther in ravenous, squirming- masses whenever anyone feeds them. The Birmingham younjr man was partly intoxicated while spending- the day at Sprinsrville. Seeing: the fish leaping and squirming 1 to be fed he cflVred the contents of his bottle. . The fish readily accepted and drank nearly a quart. A resident reported to the Mayor of the wobbly condition of the fish, and after an investigation the visitor was arraigned and fined £i ss. He declared the sisrht of a fish on a jag- was worth the eosti