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_ NO ROOM FOR ARGUMENT * IN A CASE LIKE THIS, papers deliberately make such stateâ€" ments there can be little hope of the Government being induced to make the many necessary improvements and betterments required for real service. If the T. N.O0. is now ‘‘equal to the best road on the continent,"‘ the Goâ€" vernment can scareely be expected to attempt to improve it. Those who call attention to defecets are more liable to be simply viewed as objectionable kickers, However, the people of the North Land may gratefully thank the Cochrane Post for ts restraint of language. The Post could juast as easily have referred to the T. N.0. as equal to the best in the WORLD. Aceording to the sehool boy theory that would have been the best thing to have said, on the principle that when you‘re going to tell one you might as well tell a whopper. FORMER TOWRSRIP CLERK OF TISDAMLF PASSES AWAY When a newspaper deliberately and seriously makes such a statement as that there is no room for argument. Either the Northland Post knows noth ing about any other railroad, or else it knows nothing about the T. N.0O. Or else it cares nothing about the com fort and convenience of the people of the North Land. So long as newsâ€" Many friends in the Camp will learn with very sincere regret of the death on Sunday at Haileybury Hos:â€" ,-pltal of Mr. J. R. Myers of South Porâ€" eupine. Mr. Myers has been seriousâ€" ly ill for some weeks, suffering from tuberculosis. Although he was a young man of strong physique and T. N. 0. fully equal to the best road on this continent."‘ In what appears to be earefully written editorial in the dast issue of The Northland Post of Cochrane there appears this sentence:â€"‘‘On the whole we consider the operation of the Mr. J. R. Myers Dies at Haileybury Hospital Sunday. had every possible medical attention and skill, the disease had gained such headway that all efforts to cure were fruitless. The late J. R. Myers was hotrn at Cornwall, Ontario. He is survived by a widow and two small children, while among the other near relatives are his mother and four brothers,. To these the sincere sympathy of all in the Poreupine will be extended. _A mining plant has been installed on the North Davidson and it is undbr stood that extended operations will be earried on. With the new plant sink ing operations will be resumed by air drill instead of by hand drill as previâ€" ous‘ly. The shaft will be sunk from its present depth of 59 feet to the 240â€"foot level. The diamond drill work indicated a body of ore of good value that will be cut by crossâ€"cutting at the 240â€"foot level, and after the shaft is down this crossâ€"cutting wl be earried along. His widow formerly Miss Eva Strain, is a daughter of Mr. Thos. Strain, of South Porcupine and Timâ€" mins. The late J. R. \I)era was formerly neipal of the South Poreupine whlic School and later was Township Clerk and Treasurer for Tisdale Town ship. He went oversecas with the 159th a battalion for which he secured a great nurgber of recruits in the Porâ€" cupine district. As Lieutenant Myers EXTENDED WORK ON THE NORTH DAVIDSON AGAIN. the 1.0.0.F., and in this and social cireles at South End he will be much missed. The funeral took place on Tuesday interment being made in the 1.0.0.F. plot of the Haileybhury cemetery. The South Poreupine 1.0.0.F. sent a beauâ€" tiful wreath as a token of respect and affection and regret, and there were many other beautiful floral tributes. The large number attending the funâ€" eral evidenced the deep regret felt in the North at the death of this young man. the deceased has an enviable record for his military service during the war. He was wounded at Passachenâ€" dale, and while he seemed eventually to make a good recovery from the injuries inflicted during the war, there is reason for believing that had it not been for the hardships of the war he would have combatted the disease without difficulty.» Tlhe late Mr. Myers was prominent in social, fraternal and ~sporting circles. He was an enthusiast regardâ€" ing baseball and other sports and his services in this line were often in deâ€" mand. He was a valued memberâ€"of THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE The Canadian Press has been sendâ€" ing out despatches from Toronto quotâ€" ing the head of the Ontario Provincial Police as saying that rum runners in the North are almest extinet. The Provincial Chief of Police, Mr. Joseph Rogers, has returned to Toronto after a two weeks‘ visit to the North Counâ€" try. While in Sudbury Chief Rogers attended the Fall Assizes in connecâ€" tion with no less than four murder cases. He did not suggest that murder was becoming extinct in the North Country. But, according to the desâ€" patches, Chief Rogers stated that the rum runners have almost become exâ€" tinet in the north country, particularâ€" ly in the neighborhood of the lumber and mining camps. The Provincial Chief should have attended the Sudâ€" bury Police Court almost any day and he would have see whether *‘ rumâ€"runâ€" ning‘‘ is getting extinet or not. Or he could come up further north, if it is not too far. But, perhaps, the Proâ€" vincial Chief is quite correet in his statement. **Rum‘‘ running may be about extinet in this North Country, but if he means ‘‘Booze"‘ trafficking, he has a large number of other @guesses coming. STRAWBERRIEG MIPEA OJTSIOE Thia MONTH Urusual Record for North Land VVieather in October. THIS SURELY IS WHAT MAY BE REALLY CALLED ‘‘NEWS.‘" #4**+So many people in the south think this is a land of ice and snow most of the year, and have generally such wrong ideas of the weather and conâ€" ditions here that I thought this should be specially noted through the columns of The Advance,"" said a lady this week. The lady then proceeded to tell about seeing strawberries in full blossom in the Mattagami River district on Sunday. **‘In the clearing just this side of where the fire rangâ€" ers are burning the slash and brush, the blossoming of the strawberry plants mads an and very pleasing sight for theâ€"month of Octoâ€" ber,"‘ she said. Continuing she point vd out that many of the strawberries had ripened, and this second crop while perhaps a little on the smalll side for size were good berries. In proof of this she produced several of the strawberries, ripe and wellâ€"formâ€" ed, as evidence of the weather and the ‘*growth‘‘ of the North Land with the additional suggestion that there were lots more where these came from. The second crops of small fruits in this dis trict this year have set a new record for the new North. The weather here, of course, has been remarkably warm and pleasant.. It is a fact, noted on many previous occeasions, that with the clearing of the country generally there comes a much milder type of winter weather with ideal Fall months. It would be difficult indeed to better the weather in the Poreupine during the present month,â€"sunny days withâ€" out suggestion of undue heat, an‘d cool nights without frost. The joke about the North Land eventually become a resort for the harassed people of the south to escape their own chilly climâ€" ate may not be a humorism without foundation in the future. At any rate the North Land has, as a start, its Ocâ€" tober crop of strawberries. BORNâ€"At North Bay, Ont. to Mr. and Mrs., E. E. Sheppard (Cond. T. N.0. Rv.)â€"a sonâ€"Shirley Roderick. The common and usual method of getting to Timmins from the outsid> world is by the use of the T. N. 0. Railway. iOther plans dhave been tried,â€"some coming hereby airship, some by dog team and some with shank‘s mare. â€" But the T. N. 0. Railway is after all the popular method of approach to Timmins. It is sure enough, even if slow, and safeâ€"never a passenger killed on that line to date, So, far the series of views of Timmins to be published in the coming issues of The Advance, the above photograph of the handsome and wellâ€"appointed station makes an approâ€" priate initial number. The station is of solid brick, hardwood finish throuzhout, and in appearance, size and conveniences would do credit to any small It was formally blessed by Chairman Englehart when it was epmpleted in 1917. TIMMINS, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20th,. 1920. N.O.F.A. Ordered Protested Game Reâ€" Played and Porcupine Dome Failed to Appsar. ‘This new Provincial Residential School is designed to allow opportunâ€" ity for high school education to the children of this part of the North. There are no high schools up in this part of the North, though Timmins, for example, has Continuation Classes that practically take the place of the high school. The Provincial residentâ€" ial school at Monteith, however, will provide many children in the district with an opportunity for more advaneâ€" ed education than now available. The pupils going to (Monteith will reside at the school and so their parents will know that they are well looked after physically, mentally and morally. Speâ€" cial efforts should be made by the Government to provide sports and amusements for the spare time of the pupils, as the youngsters should have a variety to their life. Something more is needed outside of study hours then just looking at the dJumber piles or counting the pigs on the Provincial IROQUBIS FALS WINS CUP BV DEAULT Through the winning of the game with Iroquois Falls at Timmins in the match to decide the tie between the two teams for the King Football Cup the Poreupineâ€"Dome team secured the honour, and after the game the South End boys took home with them the coveted trophy which they thus seâ€" cured for the second year in succesâ€" sion. The TIroquois Falls team enterâ€" ed a protest against the team played by Poreupineâ€"Dome. The ground of protest â€"was that Messrs Lynn and Cadman, who had played the season through on the Melntyre and Timâ€" mins teams respectively, were used in the Poreupineâ€"Uome lineâ€"up for this special tie game, and that this was contrary to the constitution and byâ€"laws of the N.O.F.A. At a recent meeting of the Northern Ontario Football Association executive, the matter was fully considered, and the protest of Troquois Falls was upheld. The N.O.F.A. ordered the game to be reâ€"played at Iroquois Falls on Saturâ€" day, ‘October 16th Poreupineâ€"Dome failed to appear on Saturday for the game as directed by the N.O.F.A., so the game was awarded to the Troquois Falls and the latter team now declarâ€" ed the winners of the King Cup for 1920,. Poreupineâ€"Dome was last year the first winner of the King Cup and on this account were even more desirâ€" ous of winning it again this year than they were of capturing the older footâ€" ball trophy of the district,â€"the Dickâ€" son Cup. â€" The Poreupineâ€"Dome team still has the King Cup, but it is the order of the N.O.F.A. that it go8s to Iroquois Falls this year. _ Iroquois Falls thus secures both the Football trophies of the districet for this year, and they still have the Hamilton B. Wills eup won from Timmins last year. It is expectéed that the new Provinâ€" cial Residential School at Monteith will be ready to open early in Novemâ€" organization of the staff for this school is completed, and the school is now being equipped. _ MONTEITH â€"RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL OPEN NEXT MONTH. Dance in King‘s Hall on Thursday evening (tomorrow). King‘s Ottawa Orchestra will furnish the mausie. ictures of the Porcupine Mine Produced Over $2,000,000 In Year. Pleasing Annual Report. a corner of the hall, thus allowing much more room for dancing. Colomâ€" bo‘s Orchestra furnished a fine 1ine of good music, and were generous in encores. ‘‘We most certainly are getting fine music these days for our dances,"‘‘ said one man this week, addâ€" ing that the dance music by the Timâ€" mins orchestra could not be exeelled in much larger centres. The Thanksâ€" McHRTVRE OAE RESFRAVES INCREASED BV A MITON A very dargely abtended dance was held in the New Empire Theatre Baseâ€" ment on Monday evening of this week. This Thanksgiving Day event was given for the benefit of the Tiamâ€" mins Hockey Club, and the New Emâ€" pire Theatre kindly donated the hall for the occasion, while the Orchestra also made a special rate to help the hockey ‘boys. The â€"orchestra stand was moved from its usual position to giving Day Hockey Dance may well be considered an allâ€"round success; the attendance being very large, the music the best, the dancing floor all that could be desired, the proceeds saâ€" tisfactory, and the evening being a thoroughly enjoyable one all round A| feet, while the main shaft is down 1560 feet and will probably be sunk further in the near future. Diamond drill work has indicated remarkable ore bodies at depth. The official esâ€" timate of ore reserves as at June 20, 1920, is 502,682 tons averaging $11.13, or a total of $5,594,650.00, as against an estimate of $4,763,627.00 ore reâ€" serves for the previous year. P Special interest is being taken in the Melnityreâ€"Poreupime at present on account cof the company‘s recent branching out into the coal mining business. The meeting of shareholdâ€" ers this month ratified a deal for the purchase of a fifty per cent. interest in the Blue Diamond Coal Mines as well as an advantageous option on the Canadian Coal Fields, Limited, both at Brule, Alberta. It is estimatâ€" ed that the profits from ‘these two coal properties should run over half a million per year. The Temiskaming Mine of Cobalt has the other 50 per cent. interest in the coal proposition. SUCCESSFUL DANCE FOR HOCKEY BOYS ON MCONDAY. C Mr. T. Lake, of Georgetown, is visit ing his son, Mr. Geo. Lake. The following are the officers of the In eonnection with the campaign in the Poreupine for the raising of funds for the Navy League of Canada, Mayor Melnnis has called a special pitblic meeting in the New Empire Theatre for Sunday evening. At this mecting the plan of the campaign here will be outlined and the aims and purâ€" poses of the Navy meague dealt with. In addition the Citizens Band will be in attendance and furnish a programme of music, while there will also be some especially attractive picâ€" tures. It is probable that the pictures will include the views of the Abitibi Power Paper Co. plant at Iroquois Falls showing very gompletely the operation of paperâ€"making from the cutting of the tree in the forest to the delivery of the finished paper at the printing office. This fitm is considerâ€" ed as one of the best ofâ€"its kind ever screened. Indeed, Timmins people who have seen it compare it to the pictures of the Hollinger and other mines here as scereened here some time ago. This meéans the best sort of a compliment for the f!‘m regarding papermaking, for the picture dealing with the goid industry has very proâ€" perly been considered as something ex pecially good. RAVY LEAGUE MEETING IN THEATRE SUNTAY NIGHT Campazign for Porcupine To. Be Outlined. Programmse by Band and Pictures. The man from Mattagami fined $500.00 and costs or three months in jail for breach of the Ontario Temâ€" perance Act apparently did not care to accept either option. He did not pay the fine and apparently wished to escape a jail term, so he took his leave in the late afternoon after the sentence had been passed on him last Thursday. The prisoner escaped by taking off the hinges on the door at the west side of the station.. The man was not locked in a cell, but as 1s usual with prisoners during the day time was allowed the liberty of the corridors outside the cells. It would be impossible for a prisoner to smash down. any of the doors and escape without being heard. This prisoner, however, worked his way out without any noise. The theory is that he was given a scerewâ€"driver by some visitor allowed to see ‘him during the day, and with this removed the hinges from the heavy wooden door. In any case he got the door off and made good his escape. The getâ€"away was made about five o‘elock so far as can be judged. Efforts ‘have been made to locate the missing man but so Lfar without success, so far as his return here is concerned. There. will be a Special Dance in King‘s Hall tomorrow (Thursday) evening, Oct. 2ist. The Ottawa Orâ€" chestra that made so ‘big a hit with the crowd on Saturday evening at the Veterans‘ dance will furnish the same sort of good music. ONER ESCAPES V an der Voort. Managerâ€"R. J. Ennis, E. M. The present year promises to excel the fine record for the year ending June, 1920. ‘ Mcintyreâ€"Poreupine Mines, Limited: Presidentâ€"J. P. Bickell. Viceâ€"Pres.â€"W. J. Sheppard. Secretaryâ€" and_ Treasurerâ€"M. P. Effort to Contribute Porcupine‘s Shars to Fund for Sailors and Dependents. The committees of the Navy League of Canada in the Porcupine Camp are busy these days in connection with the campaign for funds throughout th Dominion. The purposes of the Fund and the uses to which the money will be placed are explained by the following from the Navy League head quarters :â€" PURPDGE OF THE NAVY LEAGYE CGAMPANGN RERE One hundred dollars per month for a widow with four children, or $20.00 per month for each member of the family, is the aim of the Navy League of Canada in pensioning the widows and orphans of Canadian mercantile sailors who lost their lives on active service during the war. The League during Sailors‘ Week, Oct. 18th to 23rd. proposes to raise $760,000 for the work in general, of which $144,000 will ibe used as an enâ€" dowment for pensions. The â€"income from this endowment, along with funds already in hand, will be sufficiâ€" ent to meet the national situation. The Navy League of Canada, in apâ€" pealing to the public for funds, feels that no widow should go ‘hungry or any child go through life without a proper education because the father paid the supreme sacrifice on active service, Many of the men on the merchant ships earried food, muniâ€" tions, troops, and general supplies, were torpedoed at sea and went down as British seamen always have done, standing sldo, ‘*‘Women and Childâ€" ren First.‘ Through this endowment the mother will be able to remuin at home, take care of her children, and make a home what it ought to be. The League conâ€" siders that every woman with children should be in the home, sufficiently supported with finances so that she can bring her children up properly, and not be foreed to leave them alone all day to play on the streets while she works taking the place of both father and mother. HELPFUL HINTS ON THE CHOICE OF A PROFESSION. A Big Dance is announced for Thursday evening, JQct. 28th at the O‘Connor House, Schumacher, in arid of the Navy League of Canada. Daneâ€" ing will commence at 9 p.m. and reâ€" freshments will be supplied. There will be the best of music for the occaâ€" sion. The Dance is being held to help out the funds contributed by Schuâ€" macher and district to the present campaign of the Navy League of Canâ€" ada,. The Schumacher Committee in charge are doing all possible to assure a very successful dance and their past success in this line promises a very en joyable event for Thursday evening of next week. The attractiveness of the appearance of the New Hollinger Hospital seems to increase from day to day. Recentâ€" ly the cleaning up of the lots nearby the building has considerably improvâ€" ed the setting of the picture, and as it is understood that the land will be filled in and levelled to the corner of Pine street, all the ground around the hospital to be made into lawn. This promises that the Hollinger Hospital wil not only be the finest building of its kind in the North Land, but also that when the work is completed the grounds and general appearance will be especially attractive. The plan as decided upon by the exâ€" ecutive is to grant a pension to each widow and family according to reâ€" quirements, and cearrry on the relief work commenced upon a larger and permanert sceale. Each child <who lost his or ‘her daddy during the war will be granted a pension adequate ‘to cover necessary expenses for a good ecducation, and therefore the country at large, through the medium of the Navry League of Carada, will be fathering all those children, giving them ‘home, education, until they are able to support themselves and a proâ€" per start in life. The following helpful hint on the choice of a profession is from the Pas (Man.) Herald of recent date:â€" * I have the qualitiese to make a good burglar, but I am afraid of the police,‘‘ states Fred Fischer, in disâ€" cussing a choice of professions, and in explanation of his failure to amass wealth. DANCE AT SCHUMACHER FOR NAVY LEAGUE FUND. Single Comrtes 5 Cents