Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-28
GREAT SEASON FOR DEER
MANY BUCKS SHOT IN WIND
HAM COUNTY.
Record of Last Season Bids Fair to
Be Equalled Throughout the State
-Eqht Local Hunters Successful
C;nca SATURDAY.

Record of Last Season Bids Fair to
Be EqualIed Throughout the State
Eight Local Hunters Successful
Since Saturday.
With three more hunting days left
in the open deer season of l904.
Windham county bids fair to equal II
not to surpass its record of last year
when As bucks were killed. Reports
from the different towns throughout
the county are by no means complete
vet they show that the number has
already reached 80 with a probability
that ii is much larger Local hunters
have been particularly fortunate, no
less than eight having returned with
trophies of the chase. Warren Walk
er of West Brattleboro shot 235
pound buck Monday morning near
George Wheeler's house on Dummer-
ston hill, DR.. c. r. Aldrich, while
hunting with DR.. A. l.. Pettee on
Glebe mountain In Wlhdham prousnt
down one that weighed III pounds
dressed. Frank Bement killed f1ne
headed buck weighing nearly ESQ
pounds, in Weston Monday morning,
George Barker and Frank Wright
each shot one in Dummerston wed
nesday, while a bullet from Foster
Crowns rifle brought down buck
in Wardsboro Wednesday. Charles
r. Crosby shot handsome buck In
Dummerston yesterday morning, be-
ing gone from his home only few
hours, and George Stone was sue
cessful in Ludlow earlier in the week.
The handsomest buck that has been
seen in BrattIeboro this season was
brought in from East Dover yester-
day afternoon by c. X. Jones, super
intendent of the local street railway.
1t weighed 800 pounds before being
dressed and is now on exhibition in
Schorling & Johnson's market. Mr..
Jones and his son, Guy Charles Stock
WELL A. E. Wilson and e. M. Goode-
nough have been hunting in Dover
since the opening of the season.
Four bucks have been killed within
the limits of Londonderry, Howard
Pierce and Roy Davis each getting
| one: Clifford Howe and his uncle
killed one in Jamaica; Frank kidder
and Lewis A. Hall each shot one in
Wardsboro Lewis Elwell killed a
| buck in Dover; Herbert Chase and
Roy Harrington each one in Wind
ham. Harlan Whitney shot large
buck in Marlboro Saturday as did al
| so a Mr. Ryther Sherman willard
was fortunate in shooting buck III
| Putney: Carl Ware and two other
/
/ flax. Rolln Grout killed a very large
| one in West Townshend: and Elbie
| S. Pike bagged buck in Wilmington
| that weighed 277 pounds.
Reports come from Weston of an
enormously large buck that drove Two
Youthful hunters across West river
and has thus far lodged all bullets
| fired his way. A party of Brattleporo
hunters saw this buck two weeks ago
while bird bunting in that section,
land one of them states that he had
antlers with ten prongs. on the nrst
| day of the open season large DUCK
was found dead near Marlboro nortn
pond, evidently having been shot
several days before. A big buck was
seen Wednesday morning near ID. .
Pratt's place on Western avenue.
!. on Tuesday morning Chief of Po-
lice Hall received word from Sheriff
Mann of Dover to detain a party OF
three hunters who were expected 10
arrive in Brattleboro on the morning
narrow gauge train. They We're
wanted for killing doe. Chlef Han
went to the depot when the train
came in, but learned that the hunt
ers had driven from Dover, arriving
| in Brattleboro about a. m., Tuesday,
and had left on the owl train. They
told the man who brought them from
Dover that they had received a tel
egram calling them home at once,
and gave him so for the services OF
his team. A dead doe was found IN
Westminster Monday by two Bellows
Falls hunters. II had evidently been
dead but a short time and Game
Warden w. j. Webb sold it to Bel
lows Falls market
Hunters who have been in the hablt
of going to Maine for their quarry
say that the Vermont deer are much
superior to those of the Pine Tree
state in size and quality of flesh.
This is because the Vermont deer
live partially on corn and vegetables
while the Maine deer are confined TO
a diet of twigs, wood grasses, etc.
So many bucks have been brought
into Rrattleboro the past week that
the yenison market has taken de-
cided drop. several hunters having
extreme difficulty in disposing OF
their game.
The majority of nonresident deer
hunters were decidedly displeased
with the action of the legislature in
passing the act requiring them 10
pay SIS license, many returning to
their homes on finding out the cost
of the privilege. Some were aireaoy
lin the woods before the passage OF
the law, and did not learn of it until
enlightened by the game war
dens. If the ignorant hunter
happened to have killed a deer
he willingly paid his debt to
the state: if not, he was hunting blrds.
Reports from different parts of the
state indicate that the record of last
wear will be equalled. Commissioner
Thomas of Stowe, estimates that
about 100 bucks were killed on the
first day of the season. Up to Wed
lnesday Mr.. Thomas had received S1O5
in license fees.