WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

December 21, 1883

 

There is strong talk of reorganizing the curling club. A party armed with brooms and skates held their first exercise at Mirror Lake Tuesday.  Officers will be elected soon and the prospects are for heaps of fun on the ice this winter.

 

 

WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

December 18, 1896

 

Curlers Prepare for the Bonspiel.

 

            At a meeting of the curling club held in H.W. Williams’ store Monday evening the following rinks were organized to attend the Portage bonspiel:

            George Dirimple, M.B. Scott, J.H. McCullough, H.W. Williams, skip.

            H.M. Lea, A.W. Hollenbeck, A.M. Chandler, S.S. Chandler Jr., skip.

            T. Cook, J. Carkeek, Frank Stout, skip.

            E.B. Knapp, F.G. Barnum, Tom Pipe, Jeff Woodnorth, skip.

            Frank Whipple, J.F. Jardine, C.R. Hoffman, J.L. Sturtevant, skip.

            A local bonspiel was arranged to be played the first of January.  The officers of the club presented a silver cup to be given to the rink which won it twice.

 

 

 

WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

March 1, 1895

 

The Pfister Trophy

 

            The famous trophy won by the Chandler rink of the Waupaca Curling Club at the recent N.W. bonspiel at Milwaukee, has arrived and is displayed along wit the silver flasks and gold medals won by this rink, in the window at H.M. Lea’s store.  It is a beauty.  To appreciate it, go and see it.  We give a brief description of it.

            The base and curling stone is turned out of a solid block of ebony, the part representing the stone being covered with pure filigree silver chased, the name “Pfister” engraved on one side:  the other side contains six tablets to be filled with names of the rinks winning it each year.  The first space is filled as follows:

                                                            1895

                                    Won by the Waupaca Curling Club.

                                                H.M. Lea

                                                A.W. Hollenbeck

                                                A.M. Chandler

                                                S.S. Chandler Jr., Skip.

            The base is surrounded by one dozen solid silver brooms and on one side is a silver tablet containing the presentation of the trophy and the rules governing the same.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WAUPACA POST

February 28, 1895

 

THE TROPHY HERE.

 

            The long looked for Pfister Trophy which was won by the S.S. Chandler rink of curlers at the Milwaukee Bonspiel last month, arrived by express this morning, and is on exhibition in H.M. Lea’s store window.  Accompanying it are the individual medals, the special prizes won by the Chandler rink, and the scarf pins won by the Williams rink, at the same place.  The Pfister trophy is a ebony curling stone nearly covered with solid silver filigree work, resting on an ebony base, to which are attached numerous silver brooms.  The trophy is appropriately engraved and the names of the members of the winning rink, Messrs. H.M. Lea, A.W. Hollenbeck, A.M. Chandler, and S.S. Chandler Jr., skip, are also engraved on it.  The trophy was donated by Chas. Pfister of Milwaukee and is valued at $500.  It will be on exhibition at Mr. Lea’s for a few days and then be placed in a vault for safe keeping until next year, when it will be played for at the bonspiel at Duluth.

 

 

WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

November 28, 1884

 

 

The Curling Club held forth with a few nice games on Shadow Lake yesterday at 2 p.m.