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PASSPORTS FOR BALL PLAYERS Each member of the Toronto and Montreal teams in the International Baseball League last week had his photo specially taken and the proper application made out for the necesâ€" sary passport for the erossing and reâ€" crossing of the boundary line for the big games. No difficulty is expected in the free travel back and forth of the members of these teams, as all the formalities have been carefully tended to. As a sideâ€"light on matter, it may be mentioned practicaily all the members of Big League temas in Canada United States citizens. atâ€" the that the are NEW LIGHTWEIGHT CHKAMPION BOXER TO ENLIST AT ONCE. Freddie We‘sh, the British lightâ€" weight champion boxer, (the first Britisher to bold the title), was deâ€" feated last week in the ninth round by Benny who was born in New York in 1826. Welsh is said to have been ‘‘hitting the booze,"‘‘ so that his ability to hit the challenger was consequently lessened. â€" Leonard was given the decision last week atâ€" ter repeatedly Sooring . Welsh, who seemed to avoid his own former deâ€" fensive style of fighting. Welsh put up an unusually game b attle, and won much popularity in his defeat. This was for two reasons. _ The erowd was, of course, practically all, ‘‘United Statesers‘‘ and. so very readily forgave Welsh for being deâ€" feated by one of their countrymen. There was, however, a more agreeable reason,â€"for Welsh not only fought like a real man and a good _ sport, ‘but he was also the first to congratuâ€" late Leonard sincerely and intelligâ€" ently on the vietory. Leonard, who is a New York Hebrew, has announâ€" ced his intention to immediately enâ€" list in the U.S. army as a volunteer. 100000 OOR OO .O _ O e e h. . #4¢0¢0¢0000¢ 000000000 0000000000000 0000800000000 ¢ 0 00009 00 MORE FAMOUS BRITISH SPORTSMEN IN CASUALTIES Members of the 28 golf elubs affiâ€" liated with the Chicago District Golf Association are said to have planned to give a voluntary contribution of 10 cents for each eighteen holes playâ€" ed during the season. _ Under the plans announced each player w ill have the ten cents charged against him on his house account, and al!l sums collected will be remitted to the Red Cross by the treasurers of the clubs every month. The â€" total receipts from the plan would considerably exâ€" ceed :slflU() a week judging by past years‘ playing, but figuring even on a reduced .lmnunt of golf ‘*‘on acâ€" ecount of the war,"" it is still expected that fully $1000 per week will be realized for the U.S. Red Cross by the scheme. + made of Capt. F. H. Knott. He was the famous Oxford ericket and Rugâ€" by footbail player. His sport record was a noble one. The Seottish inâ€" ternational Rugby footballer, Luieut. A. L. Wade, has been killed in acâ€" tion. J. Calder, the famous joekey, is in hospital recovering from wounds received at the front. Lieut. R. H. Brishyâ€"Richards was noted as a great erossâ€"country runner, but he has run his last race on earth,â€"the race to meet the Huns. Major A. H. N. Jackâ€" son, who won one of the events at the Olympic games at Stockholm in 1913, 'zmd had a more than national fame, is amone the wounded. Lieut. h. E. H. Healey, who is also among the dead in Francee, was a â€" wellâ€"known H. Healey, who is also among the dead in Francee, was a â€" wellâ€"known oarsman. â€" Captain G. D. Mills, the wellâ€"known polo player, has â€" been wounded. Lieut. Holt, a noted amâ€" ateur boxer, is also among the woundâ€" ed. The Casnalty List is Great Britâ€" ain‘s vreatest honor roll for the athâ€" letes and sportsmen of all kinds in the "‘tight little islands." as oneâ€"â€" old is largely due ago the most ment date dren The Town of Cobalt has ordered a carload of New Brunswick Delaware potatoes, which will be sold at $4.50 per bag to the citizens of Cobalt, on the understanding that spuds be only used for seed. countant in the C. tr. IvarlWway oOofllce at Cochrane, who has been on sick leave forâ€" some â€" months, â€" recently moved his household goods toâ€" his home at Moneton, N.B., according to the Northland Post. to plant a acres at 1 The Girl Gudes gay preciated assistance belping prepare the The CoLalt Soldiers‘ Wives Club has taken up the Greater Production idea with enerzy and â€" enthusiasm. They raised money enough recently to buy a potato planter, not so much to lighten the work as to make more useful work possible, and they are ""‘digzing in for fair,‘‘ as one slangy young man reports. Chiefâ€" Constable: F. W.. Shelfon, chief of police at Iroquois Falls since 1915, has agccepted an apporntment on the Provincial Police foree in Alberta. He left last week for Edmonton to take up his new duties. Mr. Bob Sharp, a Returned Soldier, is the new chief of Police of Troquois Falls. Apparentiy the Ontario Government has a regular dopartment, or staff, or whatever you may like to eall it, for the takinx of motion picture films. At any rate, Mr. Jolhnston, representâ€" ing this branch of work, dropped off recently at New Liskeard to make otficial picture record of the hbeginâ€" ing of work on the new creamery at New Liskeard,â€"the first ereamery to be built in the North Land. A soldier, formerly ‘of Charlton, but now in France, has written home recently to say that he saw Pte. Frank Hermeston, of Uno Park, in an Enâ€" glish hospital where he is seriously ill from shell shock. Pte. Hermesâ€" ton was officially reported as woundâ€" ed, but although every effort â€" has been made to trace him since no track of him can be found anywhere in the records. The three new ears purchased in St. Louis some months ago for the Nipissing Central Railway, to replace the street cears burned in the recent ear barn fire, arrived at North Bay last week. ‘‘‘They look as if they had been throuzh Vimy Ridge battle,"‘ said Superintendent K. MeDonald. Perhaps, he would have been nearer the idea if che had said they looked like 2 Belgian church after the Gerâ€" mans had visited it. Every bit of brass and copper has been taken off the cars and it will take weeks to get them into s'hape It seems that the ears were lost in Chicago for a day or two, and it is thought that the copâ€" per and brass were taken off at that time. Perhaps the U. 8. pacifists did it: Pte. Joe Johnston, who has spent twentyâ€"four months in Flanders, is home again to Cobalt, having been honorably discharged. He was given an official weleome home by the Coâ€" balt Town Council and an informal reâ€" ception by the citizens. He was one of the First Canadian Contingent and has been through all of the severe figchting. He was wounded at Loos last January, and has been in hosâ€" pital in England most of the time since. Three of his brothers enlisted, one of whom, Sergt. H. Johnston won the D.C.M., and has since died from wounds. Pte. Johnston says that most of the old Cobalt boys going with the First Contingent bhave either been discharged because of serious wounds, or they have passed away in action. Among those still with the eolors, however, he mentioned George New I Cadman, Charlie Boyee, Gordon Donâ€" aldson andl Duncan MceLeod. ‘otato P‘lantin ant 3 acres al Girl Guudes a _Lake is planning the enlargeâ€" of its public school to accommoâ€" the increasing number of chmilâ€" there. keard Board of Trade held Planting Bee‘‘ on Friday aeres at the Fair Grounds. tuides gave very much apâ€" assistance in the way of repare the seed for plantâ€" »TOWwn, THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE formerly â€" acâ€" HNailway oflice Claire Binkley who left New keard with an â€" infantry â€" battalion, write home from Franee and _ tells about an unusual experience. He was among a company of soldiers going through a ruined building in a town in France when he noticed a newsâ€" paper on the floor of one of the rooms. Out of curiosity he picked up the paper,â€"to find it was a copy of The New TLaiskeard Speaker. It is a small world, and the press travels Flightâ€"Lieut.â€"J. _ Ed. _ Sharman, now with the Royal Naval Air Serâ€" vice overseas, was formerly an emâ€" ployee of the Nipissing mine at Coâ€" balt. For some time he worked unâ€" derground in the mine, and later atâ€" ter taking a course in mining enginâ€" eering at Toronto University,. he was engagzed in the chemeal laboratory at the Nipissing. He recently was awarded the Distinguished _ Service Order for his good work in the air. Farmers in the Matheson section who had their buildings destroyed in the big forest fires last year, are quite generous in their praise of the way Mr. Clemes of the Government farm has cared for their cattle during the winter. ‘The farmers not having housing accommodation the Governâ€" ment agreed to eare for the farmers‘ stock, and according to all reports they gave the stock the finest kind of eare. When the farmers are so pleased about it, the feed and attenâ€" tion must have been specially good. At a meeting of the New Liskeard School Board recently the secretary was instructed to write Miss M. Fosâ€" ter, one of the teachers who had askâ€" ed for an increase in salary, expresâ€" sing the highest appreciation of her services, but regretting that the finâ€" ancial cireumstances of the town would not permit of any increase in salary. If the seeretary does the job well, the teacher will he willing perâ€" haps to work for such appreciative people at even a reduced salary. Englehart Presbyterians and Methâ€" odists have united for chureh purposes under a special agreement. Aceordâ€" ing to the agreement the united church is to be represented on both the Presbytery and the District Meetâ€" ing of the district. The pastor is to be a Preshyterian selected by the suâ€" perintendents of Missions of the two churches. He will live in the Methâ€" odist parsonage while the Manse is to be rented. Church services are to be held in the Presbyterian church buldâ€" ing, while the present Methodist church is to be used as a Sunday school building by the united church. A box social held at Kirkland Lake netted $180 for the Catholic chureh building Tund last week. The event was a great success in every way and those in charge of its management are to be congratulated and commended. The attendance was very large, and all enjoyed the evening. The prize winners were:â€"Miss Alberta Murâ€" phy, first euchre prize; Miss Kate Gillies, second prize; Mrs. Lintlop, consolation â€" prize; â€" Mr. Souvenier, Swastika, gentlemen‘s first â€" euchre prize; Mr. Durand, Swastika, second ; Mr. Levinsky, booby prize. Mr. Raciâ€" cot won the guessing competition prizec. The Powassan News, perhaps in the interests of Greater Production, or Thrift, or something or other, pubâ€" lishes the following item:â€"Mr. H. C. Wilson, of Conquest, Sask., in renewâ€" ing his subscription, says that Conâ€" quest is the busy place of the West. "Our editor here, Tom Gardner,‘‘ he says, ‘‘drives a Ford, but we don‘t hold that against him.‘‘ Harry quite modestly neglects to mention that he also drives a Ford. It is evident that Conquest people are conquering, and may our friend Harry continue to have a share in the conquest. That editor (Gardner, too, is a fellow to envy. The Powassan man drives a Gendron perambulator."‘ The proposal to play Sunday baseâ€" ball in the big league parks of the eastern U.S. cities for the benefit of the Red Cross is opposed by the Philâ€" adelphia and Boston authorities, who say special legislation would be neeâ€" essary to legalize the playing and that it would be an unrecessary breach of the Sabbath. Steamâ€"Fitter, Sheet Iron Worker, Cornice and Skyâ€"light Maker, Smoke Stacks Made to Order. AGENT FOR HECLA HOT AIKR FURNACES. ESTIMATES SUPPLIED FPREE. Through trains daily (except Sunday) between Toronto and Englehart, and operating through Pullman Cars. Cafe Parlor Car service between North Bay and Englehart, daily (except Sunday). Comnections at FEarlton Jet. for Elk Lake branch points, daily, (except Sundays). Daily (except Sunday) services between North Bay and Cochrane, operating through sleeping ear between Timmins and Montreal C. P. K. Local Service between Englehart and Cobalt, daily, (except Sunday). The ‘‘National‘‘ via Transcontinenital route between Toâ€" ronto and Winnipeg, leaving Toronto each ‘Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday; leaving Winnipeg cach Surday, ‘Fuesday and Thursday. For full particulars, see current timeâ€"table or refer to any T. N. OQ. Agent. . Brazeau, Timmins A. â€"~ P.O. Box 262. A; J.â€" PARR, G. F. P.A., North Bay, Ont. Phone 51.