The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-11-06
834 LICENSES Open
1919 HUNTING SEASON
Hawaiian Music and Camp
fires Marked Some of Best
Boone County Camps.
MOST AFTER DUCKS
Game Is Less Plentiful Than
in Former Years-Quail
Season Opens Nov. 10.

The coming of November marks tn,
high point in the hunting season.
The open season on fur bearing
animals in Missouri went into effec
Saturday. The open season for ducks
and geese has been on since Sep
tember Is, but the flocks have beer
} flying south only since about October
} Is.
The county clerk was doin ga land
office business Saturday and Monday
selling hunting licenses. Since the
beginning of 1919, 1874 hunting Ii
censes have been issued in Boone
County. Two hundred and sixty-one
were sold in October.
Get "a Ducks in One Day.
Next to good fish story, there is
nothing like a good account of a
successful hunting trip. John Hollo-
way and R. B. Price, Jr., brought in
a haul of twenty-four wild ducks
last Wednesday morning, the result
of one days outing and shooting
down on lonely sandbar not far
from Rocheport.
They say the duck hunting is the
best in many years. Yesterday Mr..
Price, went out again and got three
ducks. Others have been bringing in
from three to six ducks every few
days
The hunting is being done on the
Missouri River bottoms and sandbars
and also on the prairie ponds. Ira
Mcdonnell and l.. e. Renie of the
Renie Hardware Company went out
one day this week. Mcdonnell says
that he saw one hunter for every
duck along the Missouri River.
Everybody is going hunting these
days. The hardware stores are get
ting more orders for guns and ammu-
milton than they can supply. Black
powder shells are selling for 80 cents
a box of twenty-five, and smokeless
powder shells sell for S1.15 box.
Eugene Heidman of the Peck Drug
Store and Sidney Rollins brought in
seventeen wild geese last Thursday
after two days of shooting in COM
pany with four other men near
Franklin. This same party of men
killed forty ducks and six geese the
Saturday before.
This Season Is Best Yet.
There never was better season
for shooting ducks and geese, accord
ing to old hunters.
Just mention duck hunting in any
Columbia store before a group of men
and you will have the whole outfit |
talking duck hunting for the next
hour. There's bound to be someone
in that group who has either killed a |
brace himself or knows someone else
around town who has story to tell. |
Here are just few of the enthu-
siastic Columbia sportsmen who are
getting in on the duck shooting so
far or who are going to be out along
the waters. edge within the next week:
l.. E. Renie, Sidney Rollins, Sydney
Stephens, c. B. Bowling, T. X. Catron,
j. E. Higbee, Morris brothers, R. B. |
Price, Jr, John Holloway, John Ball, |
B. F. Mode and Eugene Heidman.
Many Students Hunt, Too.
Students are getting in on the duck
shooting, too. Ben :Dysart and Roy
Williams have boat down near Nc
Baine. They are out today and ex-
pect to be back with "all the law
allows" A bunch of Kappa Sigma
boys are out also today.
R. E. ("BobD Hill, Joe Estes and
Vance Vandiver are putting up" at
the Rocheport hotel this week, shoot
ing ducks in the daytime and camping
de luxe at night. Reports are that
they are getting their share of the
Mallards, to, but they are not saying
much about it until they are ready
to come home.
Some of the old hunters like R. B.
Price, Sr., who recently passed his i:
eighty-seventh birthday, Eli Hill, con-
ductor on the Wabash Railroad, and
j. M. Taylor of the Taylor-Estes Lum-
Der Company can hardly stay at home :
when they hear the encouraging re-
ports that come in from the river
bottom.
Had Hunting Camp for IA Years. i:
Conductor Hill, j. M. Taylor and +:
DR.. Elmer Smith composed the most +:
successful and best equipped hunting
party in Central Missouri up until :
TWO years ago. Four fourteen years /:
hey maintained camp at the lower /:
end of Conley Island where they used /:
70 decoy the Mallard, and all the rest
'f them, except the wiley Black Jack. /:
There these men used to shut them
selves from the rest of the world
about two weeks each fall and spring !:
1uring the hunting seasons. Fine
rugs adorned the floors of their camp. |:
4 phonograph played notes of Ha- |:
yaiian music and the campfres :
,urned merrily every night.
Saturday marked the opening of the
,pen season on fur bearing animals in /: