The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-11-09
FIRST BUCKS
DOWN
LOng-deferred Season Opened
at Midnight
BIG SLAUGHTER EXPECTED
John ]. Sowles Was First Barre Man Il
Report a Buck--A Williston Man
Killed While Getting Ready
to Hunt.

To-day marked the opening Of the long
deferred deer hunting season. and the
last stroke Of midnight found many OF
/ the local hunters in the woods and ready
with the first CLEAN Of dawn for a shot
at that buck which had been running In
their minds since last season. Many OF
the local hunters, near. hunters and
woudbcs started for the woods and old
| pastures, where drer are supposed 10
roam, as many as three days ago 10 get
/ the lay Of the land, and moro left yes
terday and this morning. To-day not a
rife has been seen in the city, and those
men who have been talking hunting all
summer are conspicuous by their alb.
sence,
A Washington man got a fine buck
early this morning. The successful hunt
er was Ernest Bernasconi, who started
out early this morning and about eight
o'clock succeeded in bringing down a
handsome three prong buck on the George
Trombley farm in that town The deer
was brought to the Smith & Cummings
market in this city, and was found to
weigh over 200 pounds.
John J. Sowles, who went to Water
bury yesterday afternoon in company
with Dell Y. Stone and thence to Bolton
mountain, brought down large buck
carly this morning and he will bring the
carcass home with him. He telephoned
his good fortune, saying that he got a
shot at the animal early in the morning.
y. f. Jacobs Of Montpelier shot a large
buck in Calais this morning weighing
about $50 pounds. Harold Barnes, also
of Montpelier, a lad only Is years Of
age is the proudest boy in the capital
city to-day as the result of his shooting
big buck in Waterbury this morning
0rrin Hills OF Middlcsex brought down
25g pound animal in Middlesex. Ri
land Stacy Of Montpelier, another youth,
got a shot at the same buck but didn't
hit Mddlesex Center was the hunting
ground where Wells, Chamberlain, one OF
the town license commissioners, got
247 pound animal.
Bernard Hersey Of Montpelier got word
this morning from his two brothers
Glenn and j. L. Hersey, out hunting in
East Montpelier, that they had secured
buck. They got one apiece last year.
DIR. G. II. Burr Of Montpelier shot a
fine buck in Middlesex and +. II. Slayton
got one on the East Montpelier road
Mark Nelson killed buck near the
Harry Cummings farm.
A four prong buck was killed by George
Jarvis on the Lapham place, near Mont.
pelier. The monarch weighed 300 pounds
dressed George Pape secured his trophy
in the Jones brook neighborhood c. S.
McNulty OF Worcester sighted three
point buck on the Jewett property and
promptly brought the animal down.
One case of doe shooting was reported
carly to-day from Moretown, FL o. Kent
of Montpelier getting word from G. S.
Knapp, one Of the local electric car en-
ployes, that doe had been found in
Moretown.
The conditions are favorable to large
slaughter of the animals, as the slight
snow which still remains in the deep
woods makes tracking of the animals
easier and also serves to deaden the
sounds from the hunters. The first fa-
tality OF the season was reported in the
death of Herbert Fortune of Williston
as he was getting ready to
start for the woods,