WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

February 3, 1888

 

Gone to the Ice Carnival.

 

            The following rinks from the Waupaca curling club went to St. Paul to take a hand in the bonspiel with the stane and besom this week.

                                                Rink No. 1

            H.W. Williams, Frank Whipple, Louis Stern, E. Coolidge.

                                                Rink No. 2

            E. Selleck, Gus Bronson, S. Chandler Jr., H.M. Lea.

                                                Rink No. 3

            Jeff Woodnorth, Paul Browne, Ed Jeffers, A. Holly.

           

            A.G. Nelson and Sam Oborn are also among those who will see the sights - if the weather doesn’t melt the castle.

            A St. Paul dispatch states that on Tuesday morning the international curling bonspiel in connection with the winter carnival began.  About 125 curlers participated.  Thirteen rinks played, representing clubs from Minneapolis, Portage, La Prairie, Chicago, Stonewall, Manitoba, Winnipeg, St. Paul, Fargo, Waupaca and Milwaukee, dividing into East and West.  The totals were:  East, 223; West, 244.  Skip S. McKechnie, of the Thistle club of Winnipeg, had the largest majority over his opponents of any skip in the winning team, and so carried off the trophy.  A banquet was tendered the visiting curlers at the Merchants hotel Tuesday night, at which there were covers laid over 200 guests.