Clearfield County PA Archives News.....MOOSE CREEK CLUB & HYDE City December 1921
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Clearfield Progress December 1921
December 2, 1921
Reports from the deer hunters show that many fine bucks were slain on 
Thursday, while not a third of the camps in the mountains in this section were 
heard from.  
The banner camp to report last evening was the Blue Ball camp on the DeBeck 
Road.  These hunters succeeded in downing three bucks.  

MOOSE CREEK CLUB MAKES RECORD BAG
The Moose Creek Rod and Gun Club otherwise known as the "Schrote Camp" claim 
the deer slaying record for the season of 1921.  This camp is made up of Hyde 
City and Clearfield hunters and have their camp located along the DeBeck road 
on the left hand branch of Moose Creek about six miles from Clearfield.  
They were in the woods at daybreak Thursday morning and by 3 o'clock in the 
afternoon had hung up five bucks.  
They considered that a day's work and spent the remainder of the day and 
evening at the camp clelbrating with pure spring water for a chaser.  
Their jollification interfered not with their early rising or "battin eye" for 
daylight this morning again found the gang in pursuit of the luckless sixth 
buck.  Within an hour after the start of the chase, Ray Klinger's "rusty 
rifle" barked and the season's limit for that camp went down for the count.  
Their bag consists of one eight point, two six point and three spike bucks.  
The lucky huntrs making the kill are Roy Leasure, E.R. Dunlap, Frank Schrote, 
Myers Mumma, Clyde Knepp and Ray Klinger.  
The limit was bagged in just eleven hours of actual hunting.  Red Fullerton of 
Hyde holding the watch on his crew.  

TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1921
HYDE CITY
The mines known as the Bucket Line, will remain closed for a few days during 
the deer season to allow their men to join in the hunt for big game.  
The Hoover-Schnarrs Garage which has added much to the appearance of our town 
is now open.  

The members of the Schrote Deer Camp have returned bringing with them six good 
sized deer, the limit allowed their camp.  The deer were hung in the rear of 
Schrote's store where in spite of the heavy rain quite a crowd gathered to 
look them over.  

Mrs. Curtis Boal and small son, of Indiana, PA, are the welcome guests of Mr. 
and Mrs. Peter Gearhart.  

Additional Comments:
See picture under PHOTOS of camp.  Camp was sold in 1963.  Joseph Schrote 
owned a grocery store just outside the Nickle Plant for many years and my 
father and his four brothers all belonged to the camp.  

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