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Show A BAD DA Y FOE BUNMIES More Than One Thousand People Will Participate in Big-Drive Big-Drive South of Mount Pleasant Wire Netting Fence is Stretched 1 1-4 Miles to Entrap Rabbits. am? mwmwww mwm w m wnr w m m w m m w nrww g j The citizens of Mount Pleasant and Spring City are going to make one of the biggest rabbit 31 E: drives today ever attempted in this valley, taking 3 in nearly all the country between Mount Pleas- H ant and Spring City, where the rabbits are most 3 numerous. For some time past James Monsen E: and J. E. Gunderson have been trying to get up 3 some kind of a rabbit hunt that would make a E: general extermination of the Bunnies which are E becoming so numerousr and they have decided 3 E: that a big drive would be the most effective. 2 jniuiuiujuiujuiujuiujuiii iuiuiniuiuiiiiuiiiiniiuuin The drive will take place at about ten o'clock today Everybody will meet on Main Streets of Mount Pleasant and Spring City at the appointed hour and then proceed to the hunting grounds. The place selected for the final roundup is just east of Mr. Gunderson's home between Mount Pleasant and Spring City, where a high wire1 netting fence has been erected one and one-half miles long, making , a corral that will entrap the rabbits when they are driven into the inclosure where they can easily be killed. It is anticipated that more than one thousand people will join in and make one grand roundup of the rabbits which have become so numerous in that section of the valley. All the merchants mer-chants have decided to close their stores between the hours of eleven a. m. and four p. m., for the purpose of joining in the big hunt. The school children and ladies may join in the drive if they wish to do so, as no guns will be allowed in the hunt and no one will be in any danger. In the evening a dance will be given at the Opera house for the purpose of raising funds to assist the poor. Everyone interested in-terested in either of the good causes is welcomed by those having hav-ing the affair in charge. |