Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-12-05

Hence their aspiration 10 become
modern Dianas of the Possum King
dom.
The club Of which Mr.. Walter Ma
loney, champion 'possum hunter of the
Sharon section is chief anC guide, had
some little argument before it settled
upon a name for the novel association.
In fact, it was only Tuesday evening
that the name Perfectly Protected
Possum Club" was arrived at, and
here is the reason for the name which
was suggested by Miss Susie Hart
ness:
Several weeks ago an irppudent news
paper man who was in Sharon nosing
for news, got hold of a story to the
effect that a number of he prettiest
girls of the town had a few nights be-
fore been on a possum hurt with some
of their male friends. The news hound
saw in the item a good story because
he reasoned that few girls OF the pre-
sent generation had the rerve or the
energy or the inclination to- go 'possum
hunting because most of the girls he
had ever known were so busily engaged
in clerking in stores or in offices or
teaching school until they had a real
good chance to get married. the fact
that some of them were sufficiently in
tcrested in something otf'e" than stores
and. Offices and teaclifng and matri-
mony to go 'possum hunting would be
news worth while for his paper.
He wrote the story and the editor
put n head over it stating that pretty
Girls Go 'Possum Hunting" or some
thing like that, and the reporter
thought that they would be pleased.
But IL didn't turn out that way be-
cause. somebody reminded those girls
who went on the hunt that they didn't
have a license to hunt 'possums and
that County Game Warden d. T.
Woods was going to prosecute the last
one of them and hail them into court
along side of blind tigers and burglars
and profiteers and Bolsheviks,. because
they had failed to pay a dollar and
dime for a paper which gives them the
permission of the state to hunt.
That got them all up in the air and
got the reporter in dutch because those
girls believed every word of the prose-
cution threat and blamed the news
paper man for it, although he hadn't
mentioned a single name in his story
and would have suffered himself to be
hung by the heels or sent to the army
before lie would have "peached" on
single one of them if the guardian OF
the game had even tried to get the IN
formation from him, Those ladies,
however who are members of the club,
determined to take no fufther' chances
with the game '%SraeG Or newspaper
men or anybody else and so they all
bought licenses to hunt. And in order
that the world might know that they
are protected by law as well as every
other way in their hunting, they de-
cided to call their band the perfectly
Protected Possum Club"
The club expects 10 20 Oh dho'iiSi
hunt some night pretty soon when the
moon and all other conditions neccs-
sary to the captiyation Of 'possumS is
right, and Daddy 'PoSsum or Nanny
'Possum or any of their off spring had
better crawl into a hole and pull the
hole in after them when they hear the
mournful music of 'possum hounds ana
the sweet voices of Sharon's mighty
huntresses as, accompanied by their
brothers and friends, they glldc
through the woods and fall into ana
climb out of the hollows in the Sharon
country where 'possums abound.