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‘ Mr. Sam Ellies leaves this week for éwisit to Toronto, where he will take in the Toronto Exhibition. Miss Rose Abrams, Toke street, has recently returned from a sojourn of several months in Montreal. \_Mr. Jean Pare left this morning for a holiday visit to Ottawa, Monâ€" treal and other points east. \ The next open air band concert will be on Sunday evening, August 29th, after the church services, the weather of course, permitting. _ The famous Pete Taylor, formerly 6of the Volunteer Fire Brigade at Timmins, now residing in Hamilton, was a Timmins visitor last week. The Red Lake Lookout last week says:â€"‘‘Mr. P. D. McCormick, from South Porcupine, passed through Sioux Lookout last week on his way to his claims at Red Lake, and will be there a month doing his assessment work."" Thursday, August 26th, 1926 e 0090 9e 9000 0 0090 000000 00 00 0009000000 0s 0e t e n n e t ns n n 0 t t n t t t n t n t n n t 00 00000000000003 000 CC C ts * °+ "% °s ~+ °% s # Timmins and District Notes Mr. H. Martin, of Chas. Reckin, tlmlted Cobalt, is visiting his daughâ€" ter, Mrs. W. Lawrenice. } Dr. Hare, specialist, of Toronto, formerly of Cobalt, was a Timmins visitor this week. ~Mr. and Mrs. C. Abrams, Toke street, have as their guests Miss Yentelle Fred and Miss Dorothy Schregge, both of Winnipeg.\ \ Miss Edith Gordon and Miss Marâ€" jorie Martin have been visiting the latter‘s sister, Mrs. Lawrence, Em street south for the past month.) For fear the youngsters might forâ€" get, it may be noted again that the schools will reâ€"open on Wednesday, September 1st. The New Liskeard Speaker last week says:â€"Messrs Stewart Brown and Osborne Alton, of Timmins, Lisâ€" keard boys when little chaps, are in town spending holidays, guests with relatives here."‘ THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO. ~._Miss Josephine Tremblay left this week for a two weeks‘ visit with her sister, Mrs. Gosselin, at Temagami, Ont. â€" *Mrs. G. A. Macdonald returned on Tuesday evening from an extended visit to Peterborough, Toronto, chatâ€" ham and other southern points. | Mr. Martin Fraser has left on an extended vacation and will visit Ottaâ€" wa, Toronto and other southern points. Her many friends will be pleased to know that Miss Doris Harrison who has been ill for the past two weeks, is now fully recovered. The North Bay Nugget this week says :â€"‘*Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Thompâ€" son, of Timmins, are visiting at the home of the former‘s sister, Mrs. H. Fisher, Fraser street. Pernie Faulkenham, who was in town last week for a few days, left on Friday morning for ‘Red Lake Camp. ; The Haileyburian last week says :â€" ‘‘Mrs. Roy Lafferty and daughter, of Schumacher, are visiting Mrs. Latâ€" ferty‘s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Sutherland, Sr., Russell street."‘ Schumacher pablice school will reâ€" open on September 2nd. Timmins High School will reâ€"open on Tuesday, September Tth. / Mrs. Brunton left this (Thursday) morning for a visit to her home in Mattawa. Mr. Geo. A. D. Murra\ was a visiâ€" tor to Ottawa last week. _ Dr. G. F. Mitchell returned last week from an extended holiday in the southern parts of the province. \ \~Mr. S. R. MeCoy left on Sunday on a holiday to Ottawa and other centres in the east. â€" The North Bay Nugget last week says:â€"‘* Miss Ida Gagne, of Timmins is the guest of Miss Florence Saya, Second avenue west."‘ The next open air band concert (weather permitting) will be held on Sunday ewenmg, August 29th, after the church services. _ Mrs. and Miss M. Hogg, after havyâ€" ing spent a week‘s vacation at Timâ€" mins, returned to Niagara Falls on Sunday. Miss Hogg will leave for New York the first of September.\ Mr. J. Hamilton left on Monday for a holiday visit to the south. He will motor from North Bay, having shipped his car ahead last week.\ Mrs. Dickenson last week won the ladies‘ championship of the Haileyâ€" bury Golf Club, carrying off the D.L. Jemmett cup offered annually for the competition. M.W, Bro. J. A. Rowland, of Toâ€" ronto, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontarlo, A.F. A.M., will pay an official visit to G.olden Beaver and Porcupine Lodges at Golden Beaver Lodge, Timmins, this (Thursday) evening. Mr. Godfrey Johnson returned last week from Toronto where he was in Wellesley Hospital for an operation for appendicitis. The operation was succeessful, and Mr. Johnson is rapidly making progress to complete recovery. A sharp earthquake shotk followed by earth tremors lasting about 30 seconds, was felt at Pembroke on Monday. There was a roar like that from a blast, and houses in all parts of the town were shaken. No damage resulted. s ‘The Red Lake Lookout says that Dan S. Hill, oldâ€"time prospector from Timmins; has made a real gold disâ€" covery on the shore of Lost Bay, Clearwater Lake, which is situated on the east side of Woman Lake. . A very successful meeting in the interests of the Conservative candiâ€" date, Mr. J. Ray O‘Neill, was held last night at South Poreupine, the same speakers addressing the meeting at South End as spoke at the Timâ€" mins meeting. . Mr. M. Greer returned last week from a visit to Ottawa where he went to see his father and mother and his family. He found all well, and returned here to pack up and move his household effects to Ottawa, where the family will reside. Mr. (Gireer will be here, however, most of his time this year looking after interâ€" ests that he has in the district. Red Lake Lookout last week says: ‘‘Mr. Joe Brisson and a gang of ten men from South Poreupine passed through Sioux Lookout last weekâ€"end on their way into Red Lake, to do the assessment work on the claims beâ€" longing to Mr. G. S. Drew, of Timâ€" mins. Wentworth Park Lodge, near Pictou, N.S.,, which was recently opened by the Canadian National Railâ€" ways, has already proved its popularity with Canadian and American holidayâ€"makers, The Lodge is located on Northumberland Strait, near Pictou, N.S..and consists of a group of rustic bungalows surroundâ€" ing ,a central lodge. Guests have the advantage of both fresh water and sea ‘bathing, boating and fishing, while the Pictou Golf Club, only a short distance away, is open to those who are lovers of the Royal and Ancient Game. New Lodge Delights Visitors to Pictou Closed Special Meetings of Council Are Irregular To Have Closed Meetings the Council Needs to Have Resolution, in Writing, Saying That Public Interest Reâ€" quires Meeting to be Closed. Legal Authorities Not Agreed on Whether Business Already Transacted at> Private Sessions is Null and Void. The present town council is in its place because of the use of legal technicalities to â€" void the regular election of Mayor and Councillors in December last. Also, to hear some of the members of the new council talk one would imagine that they had superlative legal knowledge and adâ€" vice at their disposal. Because of these things, it might be thought by those who do not really know the members of the new council that they would observe all the technicalities of the law to the last little letter. Yet. it is the careful opinion of at least one prominent lawyer that the many *‘‘special‘‘ meetings of the town council held in the past few months are illegal, and that the busiâ€" ness transacted at such meetings is open to question. In support of this stand the revised municipal act is yuoted. _â€"Section 199 of the Mumnicipal Act, says :â€"â€" €6AA1 V ‘T‘haA_ avdinart â€"â€" mantinrrs aAf ‘©(1) The ordinary meetings of every council shall be open, and no person shall be exceluded therefrom except for improper conduct. (2) The head or other presiding officer may expel®or exelude from any meetâ€" ing any person who has been guilty of improper conduct at such meetâ€" ing."‘ there is no byâ€"law or resoluâ€" tion fixing the plaoe of meeting, a special meeting shall be held at the place where the then last meeting was held, and a special meeting may be either open or elosed as in the opinion of the council expressed by resolution in wrltmg the public inâ€" terest requires.‘ It is also evident that each special meeting*must be open, unless there is a written resolution to the effect that the council believes it in the public interest to have it elosed. There is no such resolution for any of the many special meetings held by the ; Rev. Fr. O‘Gorman,. for many years at Cobalt, came to Timmins last week to reside permanently. On street last week he was meeting so many old friends tha@t five feet was a good average distance that he was able to walk \\1thnut being stopped by some old friend who wished to welcome the Rev. Father to Timmins, his friends including all classes and creeds.)\ The. Red Lake Lookout last week says:â€"*‘Mr. Geo. Jamieson, of Timâ€" mins, was in Sioux Lookout this week, after visiting Narrow and Woman Lakes. _ He reports there is a big crowd there staking, and that he found nothing worth while that had not been staked. Mr. Jamieson owns some very valuable claims in the townships of Robh and Turnbull, which are now under option.‘‘ The first essential in writing meinâ€" oirs is to outlive those you wish to knock.â€"New York Telegram. Section 202 of the Municipal Act, The present council has held conâ€" siderably more *‘special‘‘ meetings than â€"regular meetings. With forâ€" mer councils, *‘*special‘‘ meetings were a _ rarity.. Former councils transacted council business in the open, and were always ready to have the public present. present council so far as the minute books show, or the old councillors know. The present council started out with a big palaver about having the public at regular meetings, as if preâ€" vious councils had exeluded the rateâ€" payers from the meetings. Of course, this impression â€" was â€" unfounded. Former councils not only had their meetings open, but,. any and every ratepayer ‘ was always sure of ~a courteous and friendly hearing if he had anything to bring forward. Former councils did not try to make a show of their meetings, but they dld honestly try to kee]) their meetâ€" ings open and aboveboard, and to conduct them so that they were at the real service of the people. Many have objected to the inconâ€" venient time at which council meetâ€" ings are held now. Still more have protested against the private and closed sessions. It is known that member# ‘of the old council are not favour@ble either to the evening sessions or to the private meetings. Apparently no public advantage is served by either,, whatever private ends may be attempted. If the council met to.provide amusement or" entertainment, evening sessions might be considered necessary, but eouncail should be a business affair and conâ€" ducted along ‘business lines.: Previâ€" ous councils found, by experience, that open sessions, that could stand the broad light of day, were what suited councillors and ratepayers the best. In this age of the world, the people are not willing to accept show affair as a recompense for star chamber methods. In view of the present council‘s apparent predilecâ€" tion for technicalities the public will be anxious to know why the techniâ€" calities are not observed in regard to the ‘:matter ‘of â€"‘{‘open‘‘ . ~ and ‘‘closed,"‘‘ ‘‘ordinary‘" < and ‘‘speâ€" cial‘‘ meetings of council. The pubâ€" lie will always be the better pleased when all meetings of council are ‘*reâ€" eular."" ARLIE MARKS CO. HERE DURING LAST WEEKâ€"END. In reporting the meeting at Cochâ€" rane recently in which the Liberals decided to stand by Mr. Bradette as the candidate in North Temiskaming, and so drop thought of running Hon. Vincent Massey, The Sudbury Star heads the article:â€"‘‘Massey‘s in d‘ cold, cold ground."" Timmins at the New Empire Theatre on Friday and Saturday last. On acâ€" count of the big political meeting at. the Rirk on Friday evening, the atâ€" tendance was small, but it was better on Saturday, t houuh not up to the usual crowds greeting the popular company here. The Arlie Marks Co. featured clean plays, comedy, vaudeâ€" ville and specialties, and were up to the usual standards. The Arlie Marks Company were at