WAUPACA COUNTY POST

December 18, 1924

 

CURLING CLUB BUILD DOUBLE RINK IN CITY

LOCATED ON INTERIOR LOT OF OLD ROBERTS ESTATE OFF SOUTH FRANKLIN STREET

 

            Waupaca Curling Club have purchased an interior lot west of the Harry Ashdown residence on South Franklin street and have let a contract to Rasmus and Jenson to erect a double rink 145 feet long and 30 feet wide with an office 12 by 20 feet at the south of the ice rinks.

            This lot is the one on which Waupaca’s early curlers practiced and became so proficient that they gained for themselves and their home town an enviable record for their high rank as curlers when they attended curling tournaments at St. Paul, Minn., and at several places in Wisconsin thirty years ago or more.

            In the transfer of the local rink from the court yard to the covered rink of South Franklin street, many hearty cheers and loud admonitions that for the past three winters have made that portion of Main street a center of attraction on winter evenings and holidays when the weather was cold and bracing.

            A good force of carpenters have been rushing the construction work and are already well along with the roof.  The laying of the ice floor will soon begin.