Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-10-25

near the tessenuen farm. lie was also
successful in getting a good specimen
| last year.
Carrou Franklin Of Townshend snot a
| deer about two hours after leaving home
| monday, finding his game near George
boutelle S. II weighed 25O pounds. Will
| mer Turner shot a deer weighing 225
pounds the first day Of the season. The
| West IOwnsnend correspondent writes:
| An unusual number OF hunters were out.
| Ialts mil was shut down Monday as
| help was scarce. Nearly all report see
| ing plenty VI does. Leon Wheeler shot
| a 26i pounu buck with 10 points Monday
| morning on lloyd hill A light snow
| covered all the hills and the deer were
| tracked easily. Z. Is. Swtzer with his
| brother, B. M. Switzer of Brattleboro,
| mas been camping on the Carr place and
! ON tuesday they shot a fine buck on
the Goodell lot, weighing about 200
pounds"
Tucker Boyd of West Wardsboro shot
| a deer on his father hill farm of an
estimated weight of 175 pounds. John
Shampine brought Gown two-year- r-old
buck near South Wardsboro Monday
morning. Ed Wood of Wilmington is
reported to have killed deer in STRAIT
ton. Large herds were seen Saturday
and Sunday in West Wardsboro, but
hunters have been more in evidence tlan
deer since then Henry WILDER, George
Moore and Myron White are also report
ed as successful.
The only doe reported found in Wind
ham county was discovered by Cecil
Fisher near his home in Grafton Tuesday.
The deer hunters have not been as sue
cessful in Grafton as in some years, al
though w. S. Ingraham of Brattleboro
shot large specimen, elsewhere referred
to, and Ernest Reynolds secured one
weighing 254 pounds.
The Williamsville CORES pondent reports
the following: we are very sorry not to
be able to report the killing of any deer
from this place up to this wednesday,
night. The best we can do is to say that
a. n. Sherman shot at one today at a
short distance, but failed to get his
game. Immediately after the shot it was
reported that either Albert or the deer
jumped 10 feet, we did not understand
which,"
Two deer have ben slain in windham,
Mr.. Gleason getting one in the west part
of the town weighing las pounds and
Forrest Jenison another, weight 175
pounds.
Ernest Fairbanks is the only hunter in
Halifax who has shot a deer, so far as
reported. Guy Shedd brought down a
spike-horn in the south part of Guilford
and Walter Isaac secured a good speci-
men near Green River. Harlan Whitney
shot a buck on Tuesday morning near
Halliday brook, north of the Church hol-
II
$50 pounds. The deer which Fred Wilder
shot near Dan Wider's in Marlboro is
reported in the list of Dummerston hunt
ers.
The watchman at the Connecticut river
dam in Vernon heard two rifle shots
about o'clock Monday morning. Pro-
ceeding in the direction of the sounds he
came upon the hunters a short distance
north of the dam site. The men were
dressing large buck. They said they
had a license to hunt in this state. So
far as known the shooting of this deer
has not been reported to the game war
dens and the case will probably be in
vestigated.
Perley AllbcE haEy On Exhibition in
Newfane Wednesday evening a buck
slain near the old Merrifeld place, the
animal being Of a nestimated weight of
225 pounds.
One large buck was slain in Westmins-
ter, H E. Wyman shooting an animal
weighing 300 pounds near Alden Wrights
farm Tuesday night
1t has been generally reported that four
deer were shot in Londonderry, but our
correspondent names only Irving Thomp-
son and Ned Whitney as successful
within the town limits. Both found their
quarry in the east part of the town near
Glebe mountain. Mr. Moffitt shot a deer
on Marsh mountain in Winhall. large
number of deer have been shot in the
U
Among the hunters who secured deer in
Weston were Ernest and Oliver Peck,
Roy Moore, Bert Richardson, Phil Waite,
Harry Sparks, VIII Pratt, Leon Holton
and Mr.. Stevens. 1t is said that at least
10 deer have been shot in Weston. Our
Bondville correspondent reports three
deer killed in Winhall. One shot by B. A.
Prouty weighed $50 pounds and one by
A. c. Slade 200 pounds. The deer which
was shot in that town by E. II. Miller
of Dummerston was also fired at by d. A.
Leonard of Winhall.
Edward V. Morse of Brattleboro had
an interesting experience with a bear be-
fore returning from vacation in STRAIT
ton. He was out hunting birds when he
heard a rustling sound and looking in the
direction from which it came he saw the
limb of an apple tree being shaken vio-
lently
Supposing that some hunter was in the
tree he went over to get some OF the
fruit and when only a short distance of
he saw that the occupant of the tree was
not man, but black bear. In the TO
liage the bear appeared to be a cub, so,
thinking to drive him away, Mr.. Morse
fired although his gun contained only
bird shot. The result was a surprise to
both. A fierce growl fell upon the hunt
er's ears and a full grown bear backed
down the tree. Hunter and bear watched
each other a short time and then Mr.
Morse decided that discretion was the
better part of valor and moved toward
a farmhouse half mile away He looked.
back occasionally to make sure that he
was not being followed, and until he was
out of sight he saw that the old bear
was watching him. The farmer, with
dog and rife, returned Immediately with
Mr.. Morse, but found no trace of the
bear.