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Chance of copy for advvrtisements in tho Advance. should he in the of- fice by Wednesday noon of each week. ll Second baseman 'I‘idbnll of the South Porcupine cluh is back from Buflnlo. Somv one has said that you might. know that Archie Brown, the town- .sito man, would paint his house red. It is being done, anyhow. Mus. Ch Tuesday h Montreal. Mrs. Charley Carr and son are in (‘obalt visiting Mr. and Mrs. Milton Carr. i Dunc Campbell 0! Hailoybury. own- er of the rink in South Porcupinefis in town for a few days. Outlay Boyce is now night clerk at the King George Hotel. Engineer M. W. Summerhayes of the Mcflnaney has returned to the Porcupine camp. Alex. Brough of the Gordon‘Davies Co. has returned from Haileybury. 1 Wm. Shovel] was a Visitor hoHnil-‘ eybury the early part of the week. . , R. T. Shilling'ton. A. L. Shilling- ton and W. H. Lewis, of Hailey- bury. were in South Porcupine dare 1118088" 0! the Dobie mines. return- ing the early part of the week at- Dr. Moore of Sohumaeher left Sat- ed Motrin from a two weeke' trip (ending a mting of the King urday for the south for a short \a- z to .\ew York. éfieorge Hotel Co. cation 3 ; day. George E Fetish. engineer and F. L. Cody of the Nonhem On- tario Light and Power (‘43.. was in town Tuesday on company business. Magistrate Torrance has been 'in North Bay during the week. . ' “""' I Clifton Henry. Moore. after a stay Wm. T'WP 0‘ 7"” 9 h"'~"-‘ “'39 Iin camp of some two months, left in Cobalt. his ‘0m home. Saturday Mondm mornimt for Toronto and a and Sunday. Ivisit to his old home near this city. A. See and baby visit in Toronm LOCAL ITEMS left and vainald Scott of the His: Dome and first baseman of the Dome baseball club. leaves Saturday moming for a short vacation to his home in De- troit. Mich. Gordon Wilson. representative of the ('amidian Explosives. leaves Sat- urday morning for a two weeks’ hol- iday. While away looking over To- ronto. Montreal. Boston. Old Or- chard. New York. R. 1'. Stewart oi Cobalt will look aitor the business The Numvt says that J. Lemult and Leo .‘luldmn of Porcupine are visitors to Cobalt. Mr. Le Gnult is mm or oleowhcre Hy request of the magistrate. in the Porcupine camp H. R. Edwards of the Mcflabb Furniture Company wa‘l in (‘oohrane Tuesday and Wednesday on a short business trip. (3001'!!! Riley of Haileybury. an 0” of the Nipissim Stores here. lacrosse and hockey player, has so cepted the position of manager of the N. A. Tim'mins. L. H. Timins Hotel Kingston. and John McMartin. directors of the lHollingur mines. were in camp this J. C. Mchbh of Cobalt. who (1098“:er on their rmlar monthly visit a big business here in the furniture to the property. line. was in town Monday and 'l‘ues‘ ..._... Winning August lst the rates for worm on the top floor of the King- ston Hotel will be 50 cents and en the lmwr floor 75 cents. Porcupine has set. aside this Fri- day as a civic holiday. and the en- thusiastic sportsmen of this town at the head. of the lake are making: thorough and creditable preparations to fittingly celebrate. There will be a baseball tournament and teams from Timmins. Dome. Porcupine and South Porcupine will compete for a $50 purse in gold. The first game will be called at 10.30 sharp in the morning. The first ball in the after- noon game will he pitched by N. W. Rowell. Geome J. Miller. of Toledo. Ohio. Secretary of the Porcupine Miracle Mining.' Co.. was in South Porcupine Saturday on his way to look over the work done on their property in Lamrmuir township. The company ha< eiu-ht claims in this township south of Nighthawk Lake and a force of men have been at work during: the year trenching and developing the claims and at the present time sinking i: being done to test values at depth. The winning: streak of tho Porcu- pine ball players was broken last Monday to the tune of 17 to T. The Timmins team did the work at their hgme mounds. Dnctor Nowell was not in the camp for Porcupinmwhic‘x makes a big difference in this team's play. n vacatinn tn Encland. Rev. Gillette will 3150 hold missionary services eV- ory (-vmimr of the Week at 5.30 at the Lyric. Romp of tho rutnpaym's in tmvn are attm-him: ladders tn the side of their buildim: as a means of ready escape from fire. Also as a means of firm- inc fire occurring in adjoining- pro- perty. which can he done from the roofs of ladder-equipped buildings. In this wnoden town this ladder equip- ment is worthy of emulation. .l. Gillette of the Church Camp Missionary Society will hold services in Porcupine next Sunday. filling the pulpit of Rev. Wakefield. M10 is on Miss Ethel Crockery 01 005:“. was in South Porcupine the only part of the week for I few days’ visit with her brother. Ben Croskery. manager of the Nipissim Stores here. Fred Lulu-s of Porcupine expects to leave for Winnipeg in a short time to take charco of the Western Canao dian Flour (’0. Mr. Lukas has had fifteen years experience in the flour husinoss and is a must capnhle man ll' Wilfred Deacon. who counsels and assists the Nipissing store stafl dur- ing working hours and who hopes some time to “mascot" the South Porcupine ball team to victory, has returned from his vacation. usiness and is a n 1 this line of work THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE Number 1127 has a lucky sound. Last week the Nipissing stores ad- vertised that on Saturday night they would giVe a tiClmt with every fifty cent purchase and the holder of the lucky number would get one of their $25.00 bench tailored suits. Oscar Smith with number .1127 gets the suit. Mike Huckett was seen about. town last week on his return from the Un- gava district, where he has been prospecting for more than a years Some day some one will ferret out diamonds. rubies and emeralds up in this unexplored region, to say no- thing of gold and silver, coal and iron and oil. It is a great country we. are stepping into. place of amusement. The pictures are good. the service is the best that can be had here and three changes are inade each week. In ad- dition to this a coupon is given with each ticket and the holder of the lucky number receives $5 every Sat- George T. Smith of Iâ€"Iaileybm‘y. who [infinihh' and most possibly is one of the most efficient, popular and courteous mining recorders in any country. barring none, was 3 vi- sitor to the camp Monday of this woek.and together with James Watt ui Lanark and son. Mel Watt,of Ed- monton. and Robert German of Ot- tawa looked over some of the princi- pal mines of the camp. In the Majestic Theatre the people of South Porcupine have a clean urd 1127 Wins at Nipissing Stores I_\' nirht Hardware, Furniture and Mine Supples PORCUPINE “The Store That is Different” Get our prices. Let us get acquainted. It will Jenkins' Valves. Canadian Rubber Co. Steel Products Co. of Canada, Bar Iron, Iron Pipe, Steel Plates, Tapped Nuts. Bolts. Horse Shoes; Rivets. etc. Jessop’s Steel., Canada Cement Co., Ham Nott Refrigerators and Screen Doors.. Oshawa Fittings., Metallic Roofinfi Co., Corrugated Iron an'd Siding Carey Manufacturing Co., Roofings, Asbestos. etc. Burrow, Stewart Milne Ltd., Stoves and Ranges, Canada Furniture Manufacturers Ltd, Berlin Bedding 0)., Ideal Bedding Co , and many others. Many of the largest mines in the camp findit to their advéntage to deal with us Why don't you P. Largest and best assorted stock in the country. Marshall-Ecclestone Marshall = Ecclestone “I can’t help that,” he rejoined; “I'm the coal gentleman, and the father of three kitchen ladies, one laundry lady. and one duunberlady, and fl you don't show me where to put this coal Idl call the uxnnan of the house.” “I’ll show you, sir," she humbly replied. and led the way to the coal cellar. “I want somebody to show me where to unload this coal." said the grimy-looking man at the kitchen door. “You needn't ask me about that." retorted the young woman; ”I don't have anything: to do with un- loading coal; I’m the kitchen ladg‘f’ The Prisonerâ€"“There goes my hat. Shall I run after it 7” Policeman Cascyâ€"“Phwat‘f Run away and never come back again? You stand here and I’ll run after your hatf’ 'I‘lw (KIRK. sleeper which now op- erates from here to Montreal will be taken off this run. The last car leav- im: here will be on Friday. August 2nd. Hereafter this car will run from (‘ochrnno to Montreal, effectch August 3rd. ' The canny Scot wandered into the pharmacy. ”I’m wanting thx'ce-pcnn'orvh o' laudamun," he announced. “What for ?" asked the chemist ulspiciously. “For twopemce,’ responded the Scot at once. Montreal Sleeper Will Discontinue Without Prejudice AGENTS FOR LIMITED l . ”Knnw a man named O'Connell 7" 3 “X0.” ; "Sure you don't. knuw U'Connull?" i “Say," said the ticket. seller, im- Fpaticntly, "there are 5.000.000 people iin this city. Do you expect. me to sknow everybody here 7" “The next day he did not. come to work. nor the next; and when three days had gone by and I had heard nothing from him, I went to his home to find out what had become of him. “ ‘Wcll. you see, sir,’ said the mo- ther of the boy, ‘Robcrt looks 3'71:- spectablc in his new suit. than... to you, sir, that we thought he had better look around town and see if he couldn't get a better job.’ " A 'man, evidently from the rural districts, says the New York Tole- grnp'h. stepped up to the ticket. sell- or in the Forty-second street subway station and asked : “Been in town long ’7" “Quite a while." replied! the ticket. seller. “I thought it over and finally took enough money from my hard-earned savings to buy the lad a good warm suit of clothes, with which he was delighted. “When I was starting in business I was very poor and needed every pen- ny I could earn to enlarge my little business. 1 had a lad of fourteen as assistant. One Monday morning the boy eame in with a very mournful expression. I asked him what the trouble was. and he said' “ ‘I have no clothes fit to wear to church, sir. I can't get a. new suit, because my father is dead and 1 have to help my mother pay the rent.’ “No." replied the ruralist. “but I thought you might have sense enough to know one." Sir Thomas Lipton relates the fol- lowing experience of his own: It will pay you limited