keep things together. It had moved into the new bungalow and the first shoot was scheduled for right after Christmas, on December 28th. The new trap had arrived from the Liberty Cartridge Company in Mt. Carmel, Connecticut, and they were anxious to try it out. The Liberty trap had cost $15., almost twice as much as the other club traps, but it had been purchased on the advice of other clubs, as a reliable unit that delivered a beautiful target. Many of the original club enthusiasts were still active, but they too would soon become subjected to the pressures of war, and either leave to serve their country, or become involved at home.

In February, the Peters Cartridge Company of San Francisco began to seriously market their product in Canada. The impact of the war had not yet been felt in the United States, and Peters' shotshells had a well established reputation south of the border, providing a solid base for their growth. A flurry of letters offered a variety of promotional merchandise free to shooters, and clubs, for the asking: Record books, score sheets, and lithographed hunting scenes were available, and Peters had set the standard by being the first to do this type of promoting on a large scale. The Newstead Club was obviously impressed and ordered ammunition, and some of the promotional supplies, through Fennell and Chandler. The Club had been receiving scoring sheets from Nelson Long, with each order of targets, but they were very simple compared to the elaborate and colorful pages produced by Peters.

Most Dominion Government dollars were being used up in the war effort, but in April a few were released to the Gun Club as a partial payment on the promised $250.00 for their share of the Rifle Association's Bungalow.. Another concession made by the Government was some repairs, made to the building, to make it more comfortable for winter use. The Rifle Association's requirement was for a warmer weather facility, and the initial construction had not

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