perfection by Henry Ford. This aquisition, as much as any, gave Winchester the momentum required to lead their industry at the time.

The Belvidere Gun Club members, again this year, gathered at Walter Mellett's farm for their first shoot of the new season, and their annual meeting. Mellett's farm was the last one on the right hand side, going out the Union Road, just before the rail- road tracks. Getting there was a long trip by horse at the time, but the location was only a few hundred yards from the north end of the main runway at the Charlottetown Airport today. It was Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 15th, 1888. With a fair group and four prizes, they elected to shoot two individual matches rather than the team events they had been using with a first and second gross prize for each event.

MATCH #1 FITZGERALD 11000101 3 3/4 lst HYNDMAN 01010001 3 2nd LONGWORTH 01010001 3 2nd DAVIES 10100000 2 ARNAUD 00010001 2 HOBKIRK 00000001 1 RICHARDS 00000000 0

MATCH #2 DAVIES 11101 4 lst HYNDMAN 00111 3 2nd FITZGERALD 10011 2 3/4 HOBKIRK 00100 1 LONGWORTH 00100 1 ARNAUD 01000 1 RICHARDS 00000 0

No reason is given for the unusually low scores on this Thanksgiving Day, and there is no indication of the trap elevation used, or the yards rise shot. However, one must assume that when Bill Hobkirk hits

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