Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-24
NOTES FROM GAMELAND.
Clipped from Correspondents Columns
in the Maine Newspapers.

Harry T. Davis captured very large
bear last Tuesday on the Chemo road.
Eddington. Mr. Davis is hunter re-
nown having for several years had good
! success in killing game, both large and
small. Eddington must surely soon be
counted in the list of game regions, sew
eral large moose having been seen in
this vicinity.
Fox hunters up in Center Montville
| are very much interested by the report
| that black fox with a silver slipped tail
has been prowling after o. p. Harri-
mans poultry.
An automobile which went through
here Wednesday evening with three good
deer aboard-said to contain a Portland
party-was placarded on the side. shot
at Indian Rock Camps" doubtless mean
ing at Hanover
A party consisting of Mr.. and Mrs c.
]. Lewis, MIR. and Mrs Robert Fox, Mr.
| and Mrs. Clinton Parsons and Kenneth
Cannon of Caribou, who have been
hunting at the oxbow. on the Aroostook
river. have returned home, They secured
two deer. one fox and 2S partridges
f. d. Jackson, manager of the Maine
Telephone Co.'S Pennington Office, and
Percy Roberts, manager of the Rumford
office of that company. hunted at
Madrid the first of the week They re.
turned empty handed. ED shot at a
deer, however.
Or. Fred L. Smalley of Reading Mass,
, bucks that he shot in Holeb William
1 TFs.s. 80
the bucks weighed 1870 pounds and the
ether lea. considered good weights for
this season Of the year.
Saturday flock of wild ducks were
on Minott's Pond. Phippsburg. at when
some boys were engaged in throwing
stones The stones failed to strike the
birds wbich were 50 tame that they did
not fiy.
Edwin Weber. local manager for the
Farmers Telephone Co. at Phillips. shot
go buck deer Monday morning about
half nile from Madrid village. The
buck was encountered in an apple or
chard off the Beach Hill road and was
brought down by one shot through the
fore shoulder
Friday Al Ridley shot eight black
ducks and one teal, down on the marshes
near Hockomock. In addition he shot
four yellowlegs. Saturday he went down
the Sasanoa again and returned with
nine snipe and four black ducks
Prentiss need not think that that is
| the only town where partridge abound.
An item appeared in the Lincoln Chron-
| icle recently about a partridge flying
| through H. r. Boynton's window. A
| similar occurrence took place at Lester
| Clark's house on Lee street, Lincoln
| last week. Mrs. Clark was out for a
drive leaving two girls, Ruth Freese and
| Lena Ogden. in charge. They were II
the dining room and We're startled by
| the breaking of glass, On going into
| the front room found partridge lyins
on the floor dead from the effects Of tbs
blow against the window When Mrs
Clark returned her attention was called
to the broken pane of glass by Mis-
Freese and when the girls We're dues
toned regarding the matter, they wen'
into the pantry and brought out tn
bird. The next day another partridge
flew to tree in Mr.. Clark's door yart
and this bird was brought down by
shot from Eugene Beathem's gun.
| The present season promises TO be on
of the best for bears in many years