| Show Rabbit Hunters To Entertain Partners at Dance Sat 15 Saturday night January is the big night for the rabbit hunters and their wives On that night the thin losing Reds will entertain the winning Blacks and their partners at a social dance and luncheon inthe inthe in inthe the Armada The rhe Hunters Hunter's party is look looked ed upon as the great social function of the midwinter season and is anticipated with considerably more than passing Interest The Tho event this year will take on added interest interest interest inter inter- est because it will involve considerably considerably consid consid- era ly more people Usually the social party has been for the hunters hunt- hunt erg ers only nd their wives and has been In the nature of a banquet followed by some social activity such as games and cards and for fortha that tha t reason reaton the crowd has been lim This year the losing Reds decided to entertain with a dance and and light refreshments ts and therefore there there- therefore therefore fore they have extended each hunter hunt hunt- er the privilege of two extra invited invited invited ed couples which will swell the crowd to about couples The Reds are Issuing printed invitations which are also in the tho nature of ot a ticket The card board Is Is delicately engraved with the coat of arms arms arms-a. a Jackrabbit bit with prominent ears at r rest est estand est estand and Is also embellished with a the hunt hunters hunter's hunters hunter's poetical contribution from J Jors Jor's ers er's poet Near Nearly fifteen years ago the I Rabbit Hunters of oC Manti 1 divided into two sides to wage a rabbit shooting cont contest st the winners and their partners to bo be guests at asocial a asocial asocial social entertainment to be provided later by the losers and their part part- part part-I ners JL J. custom also developed I that the man on each team securing securing ing t the e highest number of rabbits in the hunt automatically became f tho the captain of his team the next year ye-ar provided he had not already served served as captain The Tho membership membership member member- I ship of each team remains practically ally the tile same from year to year ear If Ifa I a new man joins he lle simply fits into in into to to a vacancy created by some one else dropping out There are about forty hunters The captains for this years year's hunt were Ranger Ed P. P Cox for the Reds Rods and 1 Mayor J. J Judd for Cor the tho Blacks The Tho score was close for the Reds and forthe Blacks I |
