The visiting outdoorsmen were here and with them, as he was almost every year, was Frank Weed from Florida, a showman, trick shooter, and menagerie operator, who almost always had with him a variety of reptiles or monkeys. Weed was a great friend of Sid Green, who talked him into putting on a show at the Gun Club during the final afternoon's shooting. As I recall he was not a great clay target shooter, but he could certainly hit an aspirin in the air witha .22 cal. rifle. The members thoroughly enjoyed his perfor- mance and witty conversation at both the Club and afterward during a social get-together at Leigh Semple's, about a half mile up the Winsloe Road. The only other major event in the Maritimes that fall happened on November lst, when 39 coal miners died in a tragic explosion in the No. 2 Colliery at Spring- hill, Nova Scotia.

The momentum generated in 1955 and 1956 carried the Club through 1957 with a high level of activity. Art Hogan was President and Hugh Simpson continued on as Secretary/Treasurer, determined to see the Club debt free before he relinquished the office. The combination of active new members, increased shooting, and major events held during the past two years had relieved the burden of heavy expenditures incurred in purchasing facilities and traps--and Hugh Simpson felt one more year would do it. To help, the annual dues were raised from $3.00 to $5.00.

The now-established pattern of shooting on Monday and Thursday evenings from the first of May to the end of September continued, but despite large turnouts and many rounds shot, the members fell into an attitude of apathy. The only Maritime Competition visited by Charlottetown gunners in 1957 was at Fredericton, N.B. in June when this writer took the event with a 100 straight. Back at home, the biggest shoot of the year turned out to be the annual Provincial Championships which were well attended and held on Saturday, July 6th, with visiting clay target shooters from both Summerside and Montague in attendance. I took the Skeet title for the third year in a row with 50

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