RUNNING THE FERRY 



Ther was another party of hunters from Louis- 

 ville, Kentucky, who built a club house at the 

 bridge in the fall of '78 known as the Louisville 

 Hunting Club with Wm. Thompson, of Louisville 

 as President and H. Parker Rice and Aaron P. 

 Perman, of Hebron, Indiana, as hunting guides 

 and club house managers. Parker, better 

 known as "Dock" among -the hunting circles, 

 became associated with the Louisville Club in 

 their annual fall hunt of '76 and at that time 

 they camped in a cotton shanty or rag-house as 

 they are sometimes called, near the Prairie 

 Bend. The next season they built a shanty 

 where now stands their magnificent building 

 which was erected in '78 by Dock Rice, archi- 

 tect and builder. On the following year, '79, 

 another club house was built by a hunting club 

 known as the "White House Club" with George 

 Wilcox, of Baum's Bridge, as manager and 

 hunting guide. In the hunting season of the 

 feathery tribe many are the sportsmen that 

 gather along the marshes of the Kankakee to 



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