Summary
The Beaver Island Game Club hosted its annual Hunter’s Banquet on November 17, 1974, serving nearly 150 hunters. The report highlights Bud Roache’s five-person Battle Creek group and a twelve-point buck dressed at 202 pounds.
Evidence and limits
The article reports the banquet and hunting outcomes but not a complete attendee roster, financial ledger, or final deer-season total. The promised total is not backfilled from a later issue here.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, November 1974, “Game News.”Reports the annual banquet on November 17, a roast-beef, mashed-potatoes, salad, and apple-pie menu, nearly 150 hunters served, and a bucks-only season expected to produce a total in the sixties. It highlights Bud Roache’s Battle Creek group of five going five for five, including a twelve-point buck dressed at 202 pounds; it does not provide a receipt ledger, full attendee list, or final season statistics.