Nearly 100-year-old deer license offers a glimpse of Minnesota family’s hunting tradition

Hanna Stibbe thought appropriate items to adorn a cabin her parents, David and Cheryl Stibbe, are building near Effie in northern Minnesota might be salvageable relics from the house built on the property by her grandfather during the early 1900s.
What that might be, she didn’t know, as she went about exploring inside the house, which, she says, had been “open to the elements” since her grandfather returned to the abandoned home following his years of military service during World War II. Recently, as Hanna sorted though the withering remains of items therein, she came upon the “something” she sought: a deer-hunting license her great-grandfather, Emil Stibbe, had purchased in 1924.