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Terrace Bay News, 15 Apr 1954, p. 8

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"LADIES FIVE PIN BOWLING LEAGUE _ Congratulations go to Ann Checkryn's Top Hats who won the Championship of the Ladies Five Pin League over Vivian Hanna's Lucky Strikes also congratulations to Isabelle Marsh's Hopefuls who won the cone solation over Jan Halls Blowers, There were some very good scores marked up and some very good bowling. Some of the scores are: D,. Coupal 256, M. L. Day 218, 247, 213, A. Checkryn 230, D. Moore 207, G. Heenan 201, and G. Banks 213. 0-0-0 GIRL GUIDES The first enrolment of the Girl Guides took place Monday evening in the Continuation School. Many of the parents and friends were present to witness this occasion, In all, seventeen Guides received their Tenderfoot badge from Mrs. Shirley Mikus, The Guides were presented by the Lieutenants Mrs. Kay Jeanneret and Mrs. Vange Slattery also assisted by Mrs, Cleon Smith, The Captain in charge of this group is Mrs, Barb MacMillan. 0-0-0 ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR A banquet was held preceding the rege ular meeting Monday evening, in the Commune ity Church, to honour Mrs. Dixie McFayden, District Deputy of the Eastern Star From Fort Frances, Ontario. Convenor of the bane quet was Mrs. A, Sinkins and her committee, Mrs, Elaine Rowlandson, Worthy Matron presided over the meeting, assisted by the Worthy Patron Alux Sinkins. During the course of the meeting Mrs, Annie Bailley presented a sterling souvenir spoon to Mrs, McFayden, and Mrs. McFayden later presented the chapter with a plate with the Eastern Star emblem on it. Other out-of-town visit- ors were Mrs. Clark from Fort William, and Mr, and Mrs, Cecil Hall of Red Rock. Mrs. McFayden was also entertained Monday at an Officer's Luncheon in the after- noon at the home of Mrs. Isobel Marsh, Con- venor of the luncheon was Mrs. Ena Graham of Schreiber assisted by her group. 0-0-0 AROUND THE TOWN Mrs, Elva McMillan with Donnie and Wendy were guests of Gussie and Alan Ward last week, and visiting with their many (Cont. on next col.) Page 7 AROUND THE TOWN (Cont, ) friends in Terrace Bay. . Mr, and Mrs, Meredith Nelson spent the weekend in Fort William, Theresa Meek of Keewatin, Ontario ar~ rived last THursday to spend two weeks as guest of her sister and brother-in-law, Alice and Lionel Waghom. Mrs, Stella Brown returned home last Friday from St, Catharines, Ontario, as guest of her sister, Mrs. Mary Lukanchoff,. Stella had been called east to attend the funeral of her uncle, Mr. George Bezenar of Thorold South, who passed away March 28th, Mr. and Mrs, A. P. Cummings of Marathon are visiting for the week with their son Jim Cummings and family. Recent weekend visitors at the home of Mr, and Mrs, Eno Trudeau included their niece and nephew, Mr, and Mrs. George Rickards of Port Arthur, and Mr,.and Mrs. Rudy Peterson and family of Kaministiquia, Ontario, 0-0-0 RECENTLY READ From the colum Smedley's Corner, Any similiarity between hotels living or dead is strictly coincidential, A few days ago we came across the famous list of regulations for guest which a character by the name of Kamoose pre- pared for his hotel at Fort MacLeod inI882 Kamoose made no pretense at being a man of letters but his 25 admonitions to guests seem to have stood the test of time in the literature of the early Canadian west, Here are some of the rules: "Spiked boots and spurs must be re- moved before retiring. Quarrelsome or boisterous persons, also those who shoot off without provocat- ion guns or other explosive weapons on the premises. And also boarders who get killed will not be allowed to remain in the house... "To attract the attention of waiters or bell boys, shoot a hole through the door panel, Two shots for ice water, three for a deck of cards, and so on All guests are to rise at 6 a.m, This is imperative as the sheets are needed for table cloths..... The hotel, you'll gather, wasn't fancy. If a guest complained about the contition of a towel, Kamoose would reply: "That's funny. Twenty other fellows used it and you're the first to complain," eimai TEL ae

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