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SIXTH BANK MAY BE ADDED TO BRANCHES TV ‘TIMMINS new ‘bank likely to come in here is .flx‘e Bank of Hochelaga which already has several branches in this North Land. It is said that when the Bank of Commerce moves into its fine new building opposite the Gordon block, the Bank of Hogchelaga will move inâ€" to the premises in the Reed Block. Rumor has it that a ssixth bank may be added after the New Year to the financial institutions now in Timâ€" mins. Already the Imperial, the Bank of Commerce, the Dominion, the ks ic of Montreal and the Bank of{ NÂ¥va Seotia have branches here. The Inventor and Patentee BOX 1197 TIMMINS, ONT. ~ 409â€"52 GENERAL PAINTER «_ _ BIGN PAINTER * * AND DECORATOR Satisfaction and Service Estimates Free PHONE 290â€"W â€"2. BOX 903 TIMMINS, ONT. RING BEARINGS BABBIT BEARINGS BALL BEARINGS OIL BEARINGS JOE BIELLI "Tl YOU SHOULD TRY The ADVANCE PUBLISHED EARLIER THIS WEEK published a day earlier this week. Tha regular day of publication is Thuirsday, but so as to give all the beâ€"t of the deal, the paper is issued for this one week on Wednesday. Next week it will be issued, as usual, on Thursday. __For the advantage of the public and tho merchants, in the matter of (‘bâ€"istmas shopping, The Advance is FIRST CHRISTMAS CARDS ISSUED EIGHTY YEARS AGO While Christmas cards, boxes and presents are said to be ‘a survival of the Strenae of Rome, and . so strenuously opposed by Ithe early Chrisiian fathers, the popularity of the Christmas card is of more recent time. A writer who has delved deepâ€" ly into the origin and history of Christmas customs says that from the beginning to the middle of the nineteenth century ‘school pieces,‘ or ‘Christmas pieces,‘ the forerunner of the card of today, were popular. These were sheets of paper, someâ€" times surrounded with birds, scerolls, and other specimens of elaborate penâ€" manship made by boys at holiday time to prove their progress in the art of writing. Joseph Cundall, a London artist, is said to have issued the first Christâ€" mas card proper in 1846. It was of ithe size of a woman‘s visiting card, and was printed in lithography and colored by hand. About 1862 the ecustom obtained a firm foothold, most ecustom obtam‘(. a firm foothold most of the cards bemg small ‘and contain. ing merely the greetings ‘‘A Merry Christmas‘‘ and ‘‘A Merry New Year.‘‘ Later "‘"Little Red_ Riding Hood,‘‘ robins and snow began to play to a promineut part in the deâ€" coration. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO. Programme in High School Community Hall on Thursday Last Was One of QOutstanding Interest and Merit. Big Attendance and Everybody Enjoyed the Event Throughout. South Porcupine Curling Club Concert Big Success South Porcupine, Dec. 22nd, 1925. Special to The Advance. h The concert given by the Curling| way as to show that he (Jimmy Hogg Club in the High School Community| was to the manner born. _ George Hall on the 17th inst, was one grand| Hellsmurmur, from the Broad Acres, success from the opening overture by|in overalls and straw lid, was ably the Bonspiel Orchestra to the finale.:done by W. Lowry, who showed a As Mrs. Barry was absent, Mrs. W.! sharp shrewdness *quite characterâ€" G. Bowles sang first. **The World is | istic of the real owner of Broad Acres, Waiting for the Sunrise,‘‘ was so efâ€", when he ‘‘bought the old farm‘‘ and fectively given that her world right| felt he ‘‘must be geetin‘ on.‘‘* There there insisted on another even though| was many a laugh at the efforts of they had to applaud till sunrise. She!C. Swattum McGuiness (alias Harry responded with ‘‘Philosophy.‘‘ Miss Wilson) to keep order, _ When the \Viflson ‘s piano solo won a hearty and| lights went out he and his working wellâ€"merited eneore. Mr. Perry reâ€"| mate, Bill Rooks (Geo Starling) made cited ‘‘Hard Luck Henry,"‘ by Serâ€"| a raid on the cloakâ€"room for liquor; vice, and was brought back for anâ€" two bottles were found but not even other, after which Mrs. Bowles a;:ainl enough left in them ‘‘for reference.‘‘ delighted her audience with, ‘‘The| Among the subjects discussed by Dainty Damozdl,"‘ followed by ‘‘The| this marvellous array of wits were:â€" Bird Lullaby.‘‘* While George Starâ€"| the public pound, the budget, the reâ€" ling was delivering his latest hit; moval of all mud from the roads and ©Could Lloyd George â€"do‘ it?""‘ we placing it on the sideâ€"walks, the elosâ€" were wondering could anyone other|,ing Of the jail, the reâ€"opening of the than George Starling do it. sewers, the 1925 taxâ€"rate, a municiâ€" Baine‘s violin playing, a§s usual,| pal beauty parlor requested by Young entranced his audience, His first seâ€"| Irishmen‘s Assoc, (leading name on lection ‘‘Dannyâ€"Boy,‘‘ brought <the) same petition being Thos,. Ryan) the encore ‘‘Marchetg,‘‘ and, when an enâ€"| telephone, good English, a by«law to coré to the encore was Indgistea on,}prevent any more margin calls on he cave ‘My Wild Irigh Rose,‘*‘ Mr.} West Dome Lake stock, the planting Geo. Honer gave ‘ The Floral| of maples, Joe Rutherford‘s Rollsâ€" Dance,"‘ a solo in which his splendid| Royee and many like themes of simiâ€" tenor is heard very favourably. His| lar import to the Township of Tisdale. encore was ‘‘There‘s a Land.‘"‘ However, they sang with real feeling, While ‘‘The Gentlemen Advenâ€"|‘‘We want to be happy but we can‘t turers, of the Township of Tizzdale"‘|be happy till we make you happy too."" were preparing their Council Chamâ€"]| Some of the bappy skits 6f the evenâ€" bers the Porcupine Juvenile Orchestra| ing were the story of the barber who delighted the audience with several| cannot eat onions now that ladies catehy selections, Then ‘The Porâ€"| throng his emporium. ‘‘How could cupine Pifflers‘‘ opened with ‘‘The|the Dome have paid more dividâ€" Gang‘s All Here.‘"‘ Sure enough|ends?‘‘ ‘""If they had Doug. (W) they were; but who was which and|right in from the first.‘‘ ‘"If the what was who for a few moments| dogwood have fleas has mahogany?‘‘ had people guessing. ~The central imâ€"| ‘‘Did you hear of the accident?‘‘ posing figure wearing the insignia of| ‘‘No.‘‘ ‘‘Why, John ~ "*Well office and a lot of wondrous colours|if John Fell when did Hugh Boil proved to be Mr. Geo. Cole, repreâ€"| (Boyle)? We might add that if Hugh the Reeve, or as they told in | did boil would Dave Kerr (care) ? esnt omm on sns mm es «s omm oo m en ie But ‘that was yearsâ€" ago. In the meantime Mrs . H. developed conâ€" sumptionâ€"and _ died. Following quickly upon this disaster the eldest girl showed signs of weak lungs and was promptly sent away to the Musâ€" koka Hospital for Consumptives. In two vears she returned cured. REâ€"UNION AFTERâ€"* YEARS OF SEPARATION also fell in the way of tuberculos:s. They are now at Muskoka, and makâ€" ing the same progress that their sisâ€" ter made. The father, the eldest girl and youngest girl are now at home preparing for the coming day of reâ€" union. MQOSE LODGE TO HOLD NEW YEAR‘S PARTY, JAN. 6. The Timmins Lodge of the Loyal Order of the Moose are planning a New Year‘s Party for Wednesday evening, Jan. (th, 1926, commeneing at 7.30 p.m. The event is to be hel in the New Empire Theatre and is to be specially for the children of memâ€" bers of the Lodge. It is expected that. a big part of the programme of this New Year‘s party entertainment for children will be supplied by the children themselves, and a big crowd and a happy time for all are confiâ€" dently expected. Bs o Some ten or eleven years ago Mrs. H. cherished fine plans for her famâ€" ily‘s future. Her four girls were all bright, clever children who seemed free to travel through life without a single handicap. : Constributions may be sent to Hon. W. As Charliton, President, 223 Colâ€" lege Street, Toronto 2, Ontario. Mr. Frank Hoffman, of Giroux Lake, was a visitor to Timmins over weekâ€"end, While Gentlemen Advenâ€" turers, of the Township of Tizzdale"‘ were preparing their Council Chamâ€" bers the Porcupine Juvenile Orchestra delighted the audience with several catehy selections,. Then *The Porâ€" cuping Pifflers‘‘ opened with ‘‘The Gang‘s All Here.‘‘ Sure enough they were; but who was which and what was who for a few moments had people guessing. ~The central imâ€" posing figure wearing the insignia of office and a lot of wondrous colours proved to be Mr. Geo. Cole, repreâ€" senting the Reeve, or as they told in song later ‘‘The man who‘s always boosting Tisrale.‘‘ On his left was Har d‘Boyled, a practical, matterâ€"ofâ€" fact personage, represented by Geo. Honer; on his right sat the townâ€" clerk. ‘‘O Heavens,‘‘ taken by Alan Anderson, with all the suavity of the original. _ Then there was Gordon Authier, the lawyer "with two big horns aâ€"stickin‘ from his head,‘‘ the same being A Kincaid. _ Jack Leâ€" Maison, a farâ€"seeing, dapper little man was Max Smith, while beside him sat the Canny Sceot who played the IUZLUIICL, V UVMVUULIJ LN AS oRKZ ARAA AR pemy M â€" ie t C a nice little raid not far from the police station at Schumacher. A boarding house was seached under warrant and in a neat hiding place, discovered after patient search, five gallons of good old booze rewarded the officers for the trouble of the inâ€" vestigation. The proprietor of the place was arrested, but Saturday evening he‘was bailed out. He will come before Magistrate Atkinson this week for breach of the O. T. A." ) sB sA oc 4 EC m V But that was not the end. The other sisters, except the youngest, Last week the new offieecr at Schuâ€" macher, Constable Jas. Cushing, made SCHUMACHER OFFICER MAKES NICE LITTLE RAID again‘ enoughn i1e°LL in them °_ LOPF PCLCLIEnce., _ ©The Among the subjects discussed by this marvellous array of wits were:â€"â€" bagâ€"pipes while his confreres sang ! A braw lad is Dave Kerr,‘‘ in such a way as to show that he (Jimmy Hogg was to the manner born. _ George Hellsmurmur, from the Broad Acres, in overalls and straw lid, was ably done by W. Lowry, who showed a sharp shrewdness *quite characterâ€" istic of the real owner of Broad Acres, when he ‘*bought the old farm‘‘ and felt he ‘‘must be geetin‘ on.‘‘ There was many a laugh at the efforts of C. Swattum McGuiness (aluas Harry Wilson}) to keep order, _ When the lights went out he and his working mate, Bill Rooks (Geo Starling) made a raid on the cloakâ€"room for liquor; two bottles were found but not even enough left in them ‘‘for reference.‘‘ With many pleasantries for . their curling friends, present from Timâ€" mins and Schumacher and a series of clever card tricks, symbolic of the disâ€" posal of Tisdale taxes the evening was brought to a happy close. If it‘s only the thought behind the present that countsâ€"why give the present, For Sure Results Try Our Want Ad Column Thurs., Dec. 24th, 1925.