The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-10-15

Y I0 TO o likewise.
Ss Everything hap
pened to be alright when Dick VIII
son, who is here shown inspecting
his trusty fowling piece, looking it
over or we might have a different
story to tell and also might have had
to attend funeral instead of writing
up hunting trip story. Well after
everyone else had cleaned their guns
up good and got everything ready and
the start was about to be made, noses
wer counted and the following an
swered present to roll call. Ex-may-
or Fred Underwood, M. A. Reed, Ar
thur Clingensmith, Frank Donovan,
Art James, Roy Lypps, Dick Wilson,
Shorty Wood, Hal Burris, Harvey
Lower. AL. Blosser, Ernest Anderson
and Ralph Wilson just 13 in all, dogs
excluded from the count.
The count being correct, even tho
supposedly unlucky, the start was
made at six o'clock Friday night and
the mighty hunters said goodbye,
with regrets, to this city. The ga
RACES of the city We're nearly cleaned
out of proprietors and helpers through
the fact that so many of their men
had gone on the expedition and when
the meat market men heard of the trip
they just collapsed, thinking that
there would be no meat sold in this
city for full month after those
hunters got back. Arthur Clingen-
smith acted as pilot and about one
o'clock the great caravan halted at
their first stop, on the shores of
Cranberry lake-the duck hunters
paradise, where they pitched their
tents and made camp.
The boys got ready to go to sleep
and might have done so but for the
fact that Hal Burris kept asking
Frank Donovan, who by the way is
an old time experienced, veteran
hunter, all about how one had to hunt
Hal kept asking if it was necessary
to keep quiet while on hunting trip
and Frank kept telling him that it
sure was, but the answer failed to
allay Halls curiosity and the queS-
tion would be repeated and patiently
answered time and time again This
kept the rest of the hunters awake
and finally they gave it up and went
over and secured hotel Accommodations
Evidently the boys got sufficient of
camp life inside of the first hour be-
cause one of them tells US that they
remained at the hotel all during their
stay there and that the automobile
load of GRUB" which had been taken
along for the occasion, was eaten
when a stop was made near Mt.
Pleasant on the return trip
Early the next morning the entire
party was out and Cranberry lake
in all its history never was more
thoroughly searched for ducks, cram
berries or anything else as it was that
morning. The search for ducks kept
up until nearly nine o'clock when it
was decided to abandon the place.
Just as/this decision was reached a
"coot" which had been watching the
proceedings for some time, decided
to try and run the blockade and just
as the bird decided to take a flight
Harvey Lowers gun accidentally dis
charged and killed the coot. One
good thing about this was that the
game bag was not empty anymore
and no one had been killed or injured
when the gun was exploded.
About that time the boys decided
that the place they had ought to have
gone to was Houghton lake and a
start was made. Ralph Wilson broke
his arm while trying to crank up a
Ford and he was taken in to a doc
tors Office for attention. While at
tending to Ralph's injury, the physi-
clan gave the boys some inside dope
on where all the rabbits were in the
Houghton lake district and Hop Lypps
took the lead from there on and sue
ceeded in getting the entire pilgri-
mage teetotallv and forever lost. FL
nally native who had came out to
see what all the rumpus was about
put the outfit straight as to its bear
ings and they eventually reached the