Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-29
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EllEefE;D BY THE
CALEDONIA CLUB
ANNUAL Meeting and Dinner
Held at Commercial Club
Rooms Monday.

@About forty. members sof the Gale
depia Curling club gathered Monday
evening atfstheir annual meeting, In
siuding a donner at the Commercial
eiiib rooms. After q jovial time fill
ms up on eats" President J. c.
Sheppard called the meeting to order
to proceed with the business at hand.
PHI. Wilder. secretary and treasurer,
read the minutes of he last meeting
and the financial report for the past
Year.
sThis report showed that at present
tlisre was a deficit ,of approximately
$4,000. the problem of meeting
$tasaAs deficit was threshed out by the
bers present. At a meeting OF
tint board~of directors held previously
THE. membership fee was tentatively
sets att$1O, it was said, in order that
the facilities offered by the club would
he within the reach" of all. and that
thereby more members could be in
.duced to Join the club. Several ex-
pressed the opinion that this fee al
100 small to meet the current expens-
es.
- Compromise Reached.
IA COMPROMISED was reached when a
motion carried to the effect that the
membership fee should be placed at
$40 with the understanding that an
a4Sessraent on a sliding scale should
ssbSsSlevied 8 The older members Of S..
ls19sam SIS. Sherman Schlosser and
JED. Turner were appointed as a COM
1H1tttee to equitably assess the different
members and collect the fees.
~ The financial report also showed
that the taxes for 1920 and '21 were
mo yet paid. A motion carried that
authorized President Sheppard to ap-
point a committee to wait upon the
various tax levying bodies and ask
athem to cancel these taxes, which is
often done with a public institution of
this. kind. II. F. Burchard and VIM.
AsAEolIfns were appointed to act on
thaSlSss c. Eddrfn1ftt1ee
Another motion was made and car
rieds to limit the membership to 100,
and also a motion to the effect that
all members whose dues were not
paid by Dec. Is should be PERSONA
non grata On the rink after that date.
Officers Elected.
The election of officers then fol-
lowed. J.. c. Sheppard vas reelected
president. DR.. W. H. Witherstine vas
elected vice president. P. H. Wilder
was sre-elected secretary n treasur-
erysR u. =: G. Moore, chaplain, and
ESaGarvin, representatives.
thelstate association convention. The
following were elected as the board of
? diraetors: Paul johnson. DR.. G. M.
/ WHAan4son, Paul Girard. J. E. Me-
Lean and j: D.. Turner. AS a rock
scornmittee, for the bonspiel. j. H. Sol
stad and Wallace Henry were appoint
eds s.
ssFollowing the election Of officers.
Presiden Sheppard read a communi-
cation from G. A. Penny. president Of
the Thief River Falls Curling club, in
which this organization offered to visit
the Grand Forks club on December
8. providing the weather was suitable,
in order that some of the new men,
bers of that organization may become
familiar with the older Grand Forks
clG6s The president was instructed to
invite the Thief River Falls club here
onathat date. ::
Plans of Play.
Various plans for the events and
b%onspiels, trophy events and method
OF drawings we're also discussed, but
no definite action taken. the sugges-
zion being made that this be left to
the officers and the board Of direc-
tors.
1t was decided that no. drawings
would be made until Monday, Dec. d.
and in the meantime the playing
wQnld pc continued informally, each
skipper choosing his team. Ia
A1er the meeting adjourned the
members wendell their way to the
Kinks. but the mild weather Of yester-
day had made the ice soft and unfit
for play. Three of the five Kinks have
been in ideal condition until today,
and with the first snappy weather all
five Kinks will be built UP to give the
curriers' an opportunity to get into the
game.