Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-30
MANY BUCKS HAVE FALLEN
BETWEEN go AND 40 KILLED IN
WINDHAM COUNTY.
Reports from Different Towns Show
That This Years Record is Far
Ahead of Last-Londonderry Town
shend and Windham Banner Towns.

shend and WIndham Banner owns.
Although reports from this years
deer slaughter are far from complete
/ enough bucks have already succumbed
to the bullet in Windham county to
place the record of 1908 way ahead of
the two previous years. AS far as
can be definitely ascertained it is safe
TO estimate that between 35 and 40
deer have been killed in this county,
and a number more are likely to be
reported before tomorrow night
when the open season is brought TO
a close. Last year only about dozen
bucks were secured within the limits
of this county while in 1901 the rec
ord was officially reported as four.
Returns from all parts of the state
show that great many more deer
have been killed this year than in the
past seasons, and il is also stated that
many does are numbered among the
victims although none of these would
be reported unless the shooting was
accidental as was the case in Wind
ham last week. on account of the
scores of outside hunters who have
visited Vermont the question is being
agitated as to the advisability of
amending the game laws SO that a Ii
cense fee of SIS or 500 can be collected
from parties not residents of the state.
Londonderry, Townshend and Wind
ham seem to lead the Windham county
towns in the number of deer killed al
though bucks have been reported shot
in Dover, Halifax, Wardsboro, Town
shend. Somerset Nottingham, Jamai-
ca, Athens, Guilford and Marlboro.
No one has been successful within the
limits of this town. but two deer were
seen Sunday near the Morningside
cemetery. Although the names of the
hunters are not given it is said that
seven have been shot in Townshend.
Windham can boast of five successful
shots. Many of the deer killed have
been unusually large, few being re-
ported to weigh as muuch as 400
pounds. This is a remarkable size
of any deer to attain and speaks well
for the feed in the Vermont forests.
Following are the returns as given
by our county correspondents:
Mason brothers of Bellows Falls
captured buck in the east part of
Windham last week, the first to be
killed there this season except the
doe shot by Mr.. Stone early last
Thursday morning. James Eastman
and Horace Guild each killed deer
in Windham Tuesday. Herbert Chase
and A. j. Fisher also secured one.
Hugh Crawford shot good sized
buck in Putney Tuesday afternoon in
Mr.. Hannums pasture less than half
a mile from the village. The animal
weighed 16S pounds. Mr.. Hannum
on whose land the deer was shot was
hunting deer in Weston at the time.
A. l.. Wheeler and his brother Elbridge
of Bridgeport, Conn, got fine deer
in Smiths woods" in Somerset. 1t
weighed nearly 800 pounds. ~ Ernest
Cobb of Wardsboro shot deer Friday
on the farm recently owned by his
brother. 1t weighed about $50 pounds
David Baker, Solon Richmond and a
Mr.. Gallup of Guilford We're successful
on Chase hill in Marlboro, getting a
buck that weighed upwards of 200 |
pounds. Paul Haller of Greenfield |
shot 140-pound buck in Jacksonville |
Friday. A yearling buck was shot |
early Friday morning on the upper |
meadows seven miles above Bellows
Falls. A Mr.. Hentchell of Holyoke, |
Mass, killed deer last Thursday on |
Johnson hill in Dover. The animal |
had large antlers with five prongs and |
nearly 400 pounds. Leon |
Shippee shot buck short distance |
from West Dover village Monday |
Fred Stanley shot buck |
in Halifax last Friday. T. J. and J.
A. La Flesche spent Sunday in Town
shend and the former succeeded in |
mailing a nice young buck which was /
brought here Monday morning. |
Henry Williams and Bert Allen shot |
one in Jamaica Monday. 1t weighed |
225 pounds and had an unusually fine
head and set of antlers. Fay Bridges
of Athens was also successful hunt
er.
George Whitney formerly of Brat
tleboro, secured the first buck to be
killed in Springfield, shooting the an
imal early last Thursday morning. /
Two Bellows Falls men were sue
cessful in Houghtonville, and three
handome bucks have been reported
killed in Bartonsville. Frank Pot
wine shot a deer in Brookline one
day last week and it fell to the
He then undertook to finish
The job with a dull jack knife. The
ieer it seems was only stunned and
objected to the treatment by springing
10 his feet and bounding away.