The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-12
Over Four Hundred Hunting
Licenses Have Been Is
sued, Three of the Number
Are of the Fair Sex.
MRS. CARLOS BURTON
FOND THE SPORT
Every Trade, Business and
Profession Is Represented
in the Army of Nimrods
Now After Game.

Hunting is sport almost as como
politan as baseball, being INDUCED in
by all classes, if the hunting licenses
which have been issued by county
clerk George Matthews are any crit
erion. Even the women indulge in the
sport and it is doubtful if there is a
profession, business or trade in the
county but what is represented by
one or more of it's members. To date
almost four hundred licenses have
been secured from the clerk, not in
Guiding those which were issued last
fall and are still operative.
Three women have been given Ii
censes this fall. One is Mrs. Charles
Burton of Hagerstown, one of the best
shots in the county. and who thorough
ly enjoys the outOfdOOrs sport as much
as some women do pink teas. Mrs.
Burton hunts in company with her
husband when he finds it possible to
go into the field a great deal. Around
Hagerstown they tell of several large
bags of game she has obtained as a re-
suit of days work.
Though there have been only three
women given licenses to hunt, there
are others in nearly every community
who find a rifle or a shotgun almost
as easy to handle as the culinary ar
ticles in their kitchen. The reason
more licenses are not taken out by wo-
men is the same in their case as with
the men. A license is not needed
when one confines his or her hunting
in the township in which one resides.
Clergy Is Represented.
The clergy is we'll represented, in
cluding the Rev. J. F. Mattingly, rector
Of St. Mary's church; Rev. F. A. Roell,
rector of St. Andrews church, and the
Rev. T. M. Guild, presiding elder Of
the Richmond district of the Northern
Indiana NJ. E. conference.
Among the medical profession, the
huntsmen, so far as indicated by the
licenses issued this fall, include Coro'
ner r. J. Pierce and DR.. M. F. John
ston. The hunters in the legal pro-
fession number quite a few. They
Gath Freeman, Ralph Husson, Will
Keller, Gus Hoelscher, and Denver
Carl Harlan. Attorney Will Kelley is
another who finds a great deal of
pleasure in the field. Judge H. C.
Fox and attorney H. U. Johnson, who
until few years ago always had a
well-trained dog, spent as much time
afield as they could without interfer-
ing with their business.
The Heaviest Nimrod,
Perhaps the heaviest man who is
ready to go afield is Ben Bowling, the
Main street saloonist. He gave in his
weight as 275 pounds and his height
as six feet one inch. Another of the
heavyweights is John Lawrence Mil
| Ter, who weighs $50 pounds, His height
is five feet ten and half inches. Pa
trolman George NJ. Little doesn't be-
long to the featherweight class, eth
er, and he does not haul around much
surplus weight. He weighs an even
PIP, and is feet ten1a inches in
height.
Among the business men who en-
gage in the sport and the statistics
which they gave in to the clerk con-
cerning themselves, includes o. T.
knode, the music dealer, weight 1876
and height feet inches; Frank ].
Macke, weight 200, heighth 5 feet IL
weight 17S, and height feet 9 inches;
Adolph Blickwedel, grocer and presi-
dent of the South Side Improvement
association, weight 165, heighth 5 feet
|6 inches and Harry Gennett, weight
140, 5 feet 6 inches.
There are any number of youths
over sixteen and under 20 and Fl years
of age who have secured licenses. The
number of men who are over go years
of age is quite large.
The Youngest Hunter.
Howard Hartzder, son of Frank NJ
Hartzler, prominent Eagle and drum
major in the Richmond City Band is
the youngest hunter. He is only four
teen years old, weighs 1876 and is feet
2 inches tall. The next youngest is
Eugene Quigg, age Is, weighing 143
and feet 81 inches tall. The lightest
cne of the nimrods is Claud Sitloh, age
16, who weighs 1913 pounds He is 5
feet and inches tall.
Among the older nimrods are such
well known citizens as T. NJ. Bales,
Dublin, age 81. John w. Beard, Cam
bridge City, age 65; A. NJ. Martin,
Greensboro, age 81 and Jesse Horney.
Greensboro, age IS, possibly the old
est of the hunters.
so far the clerk has issued in the
neighborhood Of 400 licenses, each
costing the Icensee a dollar. The
fund thus created is used by the state
in the promotion of laws for the pro-
lection of game, replenishing game and
fish In those parts of the state In
which they have grown scarce. Hunts