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PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWS (cont.) special mention for the hours of labour he spent and the lunches he didn't hy during practices, Miss McAdam has naeene hard 'es make the choruses a success, a May we also render our very. heaghye thanks to Mrs. Rowlandson, Mrs. Wade and Mrs, Siteh for the cheerful and able manner in which they assisted the teachers during the concert, 0-0-0 CURLING SOON : With the temperature dropping. and ice almost available for curling the curling enthusiasts are dusting off the tam o'shanters, getting out the long underwear and are getting all:set, Brooms:are now available and you can get your broom at the Curling Rink or by contacting Syd Spencer o A. Farrow, For the readers that are not familiar with the grand "auld gammie" herewith a. few facts derived from a local newspaper. CURLING Obscurity surrounds its basic origin with any measure of certainty. 'But old curling stones have been found at the bottom of the Scottish lochs be#ring the date im- print of 1551. To date that's heading for five centuries of play!:! Organized curling clubs similar in pattern to those of today existed over two centuries ago, since there is on record a gathering of the Grand Caledonian Curling Club having met at Kilmarnock, Scotland on 22nd October 1841 with none other than club president Lord Eglington presiding. The game itself was first played in Canada in the latter years of the 18th century, But the credit for the first organized eyrling club in Canada goes to Montreal where it was formed in 1867. Perhaps the first inter-club competition as we know it so prominently. today was that between Montreal and: Quebec City played on neutral ice.at Three Rivers in 1835. Quebec won, Among complaints registered by play- ers on that occasion we can smilingly extract the. following "no haggis nor even good tolerable whiskey to be had in all of the town of Three Rivers," Curling Club activities were greatly curtailed in 1837 due to the rebellion, But the game is belived that same year to have been played for the first time in a closed rink, it being one of wood structure in the (cont. on next col.) Page 7 CURLING (cont.) Montreal suburb of St, Ann. Kingston led Ontario in club activities organizing in 1820, followed by Toronto in 1836 and Galt and Guelph in 1838, The first match in Manitoba took place on 11 December 1876, The prize was a barrel of meal which the winners donated to the Winnipeg General hospital. While stone is the standard substance of the curling' rock today at a weight of 4O pounds these have both varied in the past. Hardwood weighted with lead has been used and also iron, with weights having reached ' in the strong ole days as high as 80 pounds. The original use of iron was that of the hub of gun carriage with a handle attached used by garrison army officers who later had blacksmiths duplicate the original. The advent of widespread railroad development on the Canadian scene broadened the scope of curling to an inter-provincial status that led eventually to the nation wide competitive popularity enjoyed by the game today. So Scottish by nationality is curling that in the old days all players in Canada of non---Scottish strain were officially re- ferred to as "barbarians". Get a load of that ye foreigners a!'wearin' o! the tam, So Scottish it is one woncers how thé danes got a finger in the rock pie. For "Bonspiel" derives from the Danish word "Bondespil" meaning "a rustic game,!"! o~0-0 "COKE" MACHINE Have a Coke and help your Recreation Committee, The Terrace Bay Recreation Committee have installed four Coke machines in the mill, There is one in the , Woodroom, Pulp Department, Machine Shop, Office Building, All profit from the machines will be used by your Recreation Committee to help finance recreation in Terrace Bay, Cokes from the machine will be 10 cents per, If you want the 2 cent refund on the bottle take them to 'Bill Scott at the Tool Crib or Frank Sechesky in the Pulp Department. 0-0-0 NOTICE "D" Coy LSSR - next regular parade Tuesday January 5/54.