This very rare never published photograph of Ed Hellyer, a grain grinder from  New Alexandria, PA, was probably taken in the early 1920's. When not grinding grain at his granary (he was a miller by trade) he proved to be a great Pennsylvania trapshooting champion. Hellyer won the state Singles title in 1919 with a score of 395x400 at the Butler Rod and Gun Club. The Interstate Association decreed that all state singles championships be 300 targets in 1919 and 1920. That same year Hellyer finished second in the Grand American Handicap at Vandalia. In 1922 at Lancaster he tied for the title losing to Steve Crothers after each broke 197's. Is was Crothers first of fourteen State Singles titles in his career. In 1924 at the North End Gun Club in Allentown, Ed's 197 was good enough for his second title, disposing of V. L. Foster of McKeesport in a one round shootoff.