November 27, 1915

The Polk County Possum Club held a banquet attended by 106 people. At the banquet, J. I. Alley called the opossum the “greatest peacemaker on earth,” adding, “the potential and far reaching value of the Possum Club in the future cannot readily be visioned here tonight.” The Polk County Possum Club (PCPC) began with a challenge issued to local hunters of opossums (commonly called “possums”) in 1913 and henceforth hosted yearly banquets of opossum meat and side dishes until 1947, though it was active again for five years in the 1990s.