We had a meeting and discussed getting a riding lawn mower. If wasn’t much, but it was better than nothing.Īt that time, we needed a manager and Curly Treanor took over and did a good job and ran the show.ĭuring that time we had a grass problem. We gotogether and raised half of the roof and put windows on that side. Leo and Dwayne Bly had the Bly Lumber Co. We got a couple pull traps and installed them. It was on the north side of the stone quarry.
We leased a little piece of the ground from Dave Waller of Highway 20 at the end of the 4 lane at that time.
We paid off the car for $1800 and put around $2500 in our account. While doing this, we had a wreck and had to get it fixed. We put it in parking lots all over town to give it more exposure. We got a trailer and proceeded to drag it to county fairs in the area. Somehow, Tom convinced him to give us a deal on a new Ford to raffle off. Tom Spahns friend, Bob Rolling of Bellevue, had the Ford dealership there. We decided to have our own trap shoot, but we had no money. Earl got a lot of guns for us and sent them in for ribs. At the time, the model 12 Winchester was the most popular gun. Earl was a good man and had a gun shop in his garage on JFK road. We would have to stop shooting every time a train came along. We shot on the east side of the ballroom towards the railroad tracks. We shot out at the fairgrounds with Earl Wiegand. Our club rose quickly to around 200 members and fell sharply after two or three years.ĭuring that time we raised around 500 ducks and turned them loose on our great river. We held our meetings at the American Legion building, which was torn down and now is Shot Tower Pizza. I had never heard of this organization until then.
I give credit to Tom Spahn of Dubuque, now deceased, for getting it up and going. This is how I remember the beginning of our chapter. By Darrell Eickelkamp (Lifetime Honorary Board Member)
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