Startown Possum Hunt Yields One Fat Marsupial, October 1920

A number of young people enjoyed a possum hunt last night near Startown. Two possums were treed and one fat marsupial was brought back to town. The party was composed of Misses Wicker, Evelyn Heavner, Lucy DeVillers, Cecil Maynard and Messers. Donald Shuford, Arthur Bowman and Willie Trott, Franklin Courtney and Wilfong Trott of Newton. (From the Hickory Daily Record, Oct. 16, 1920)