Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 6, DeMotte, Jasper County, 7 January 1949 — RABBIT SEASON ENDS JANUARY 10; TRAPPING ON 15TH [ARTICLE]

RABBIT SEASON ENDS JANUARY 10; TRAPPING ON 15TH

Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 6. Babbit hunters and the Republican state administration will reach the end of the trail on the same day—Monday, January 10. This date, on which Democrats will replace Republicans in the Governor’s office and several other high state posts, also is the final day on which'rabbits may be legally hunted in Indiana. Donald R. Hughes, retiring Fish and Game director of the Indiana Department of Conservation, reminded hunters that the open season on rabbits ends at sundown January 10 but that furbearing animals may be hrmted or trapped until noon on January 15. These dates also are significant for Hughes inasmuch as he will leave the Department on the 10th and assume managership of an athletic club at South Bend on the 15th. State law provides that trappers may possess any raccoon, opossum, skunk, mink or muskrat, or the untanned hide or fur thereof, for five - days after the closing day of the trapping seaeon. Mrs. Bert Boezeman visited relatives in Chicago last Thursday and Friday.