This Day in History: 1940-08-07

Skip Wrathall, President of the Mahwah Rod and Gun Club, announced that Mahwah had been stocked with seventy-two pheasants. R. F. Dator and Clinton Sherow assisted Game Warden Thomas L. Spencer in releasing the bird. Wrathall thanked the Fish and Game Commission for providing Mahwah sportsmen with a “hunters paradise, practically a dessert”. (Bristow)