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Thursday, Dec. 16th 1926 THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO. _ There was considerable discussion |re the shovelling of snow and ploughâ€" \ing ronds. The reeve and some the !cmmcillors claimed ~ that â€" Engineer ‘Hendry had far more work heaped on :him now than he had been hired to | do, _ If he had to spend so much time looking after roads, cte., it would be at the expense of the waterworks system, pumps, ete. Mr. Hendry has on several oeeasions dately put in from ten to eighteen bour days we have the solicitor draw up the paper describing the parcel of ground leased, ete., and forward it for Capt. Sherâ€" rill‘s signature; then the council would proceed to pass the: byâ€"law, changing its assessment from lots to acreage, if Capt. Sherrill would have the proper procedure put through the Lands Titles office. ed as acreage it was in the Lands Titles offices still as lots. Accordingâ€" ly â€"this year the assessment was made as for town lots. Capt. Sherrili offered the township to grant a lease on some of this property for the purâ€" pose of extending the athletic grounds and making a race track, ete. The lease would be possibly $1 per year for an indeterminate timeâ€"say 10 vears or so,â€" and any part of it could be taken for this purpose so long as it did not interfere with a deal. Capt. Sherrill might have on for the properâ€" ty. Reeve Kerr stated that they Capt. ~Sherrill, president of the Foley O‘Brien property, was present and interviewed the council with reâ€" gard to some of this property being assessed as townâ€"lots instead of acreâ€" agze. In 1913 this property had been assessed as lots but in 1914 as acreâ€" age. At this time it had been aâ€" bandoned as lots and Capt. Sherrill claimed that the fee had been paid to a ldwyer of that time, to have it changed in the Land Titles office from lots to acreage. [This evidently had not been done, as Town Clerk Evans had discovered the fact some time ago that although this pareel was being assessâ€" X letter from Fire Chief H. M. Wilson showed clearly the need of 500 feet more of good hose as some that they have now is wearing and practically useless. _ A particularly good type of hose was mentioned and a sample has been received to be tried out. This request was favourably reâ€" ceived, South Poreupine, Dee. 14th. Speâ€" cial to The Advance. The council of the Township of Tisdale met in the council chambers on Monday, December 13th, with the Reeve and all iCouncillors present. The minutes of. last regular and a special meeting were read and adoptâ€" ed.. was a considerable amount of correspondence. The speâ€" cital meeting had been held for the consideration of terms re the acceptâ€" ance of the township‘s $45.000 debenâ€" ture issue. There was a letter from an indiâ€" gent, supposedly from Schumacher, but neither chief of police nor counâ€" cil knew anything about this, so it was supposed the party must have been sent from Timmins, and aceordâ€" ingly the case was\to be investigated The Maple Leaf Theatreâ€"of Schuâ€" macher asked for a rebate in its taxes. It had already had a rebate on its lmcense fee. In digent Case to be Investigated. Requests Received for Reductions in Certain Taxes. â€" Charges for Rock Cuts in Schumacher to be Dealt with in the Spring. Considâ€" eration of Assessment of Foleyâ€"O‘Brien Property. Many Questions Before the _ Tisdale Township Council RACED AGAINST TIME Hon. 3. C, Douglas, M.P.â€"cleect for Antigonishâ€"Guysboro, had one minute to spare after a rush across the Atlanâ€" tic, when he arrived in Supreme Court at Halifax to sign a writ of ecounter charges against his Iiberal opponentsawho seeks to upset his eleeâ€" tion. _ The law provides that the memberâ€"elect must appear in person within a limited tite to attest the necessary documents. ‘‘Mr. St. John Ervine‘s reminder, with all the weight of authority as a foremost dramatic ecritic, that the word ‘*some"‘‘ is used, exactly in the sense in which a modern American uses it, by Shakespeare in ‘‘King Henry IV.‘‘ (Part II., Act i1., scene 2) when Prince Hal refers to Doll Tearsheet as ‘‘*some road,"‘‘ may be matched by two otherâ€" surprising proofs that there is nothing new under the sun. References to the Atlantic Ocean as ‘""the herringâ€" pond,""‘ far from being an upâ€"toâ€"date bit of slang, dates from theâ€" reign of George I., when it was used by none other than the celebrated Mr. John Gay, of ‘‘Beggar‘s Opera‘‘ fame in our own time, in his ‘‘Polly,"" while British schoolâ€"boys‘ favourite epithet of ‘"topping,"‘‘ instead of being the senseless device of presentâ€"day vmrth for concealing thought, goes back to Stuart times.‘" Any young lad who is aceused of beâ€" ing a slinger of slang may truthfully 101)]\, “So was your grandfather 3 old man!‘‘* The beans are spilled in the matter by the following paraâ€" graph from the London Letter in The Ottawa Journal on Monday : â€" Slang is one thing that the upâ€"toâ€" theâ€"minute gink will tell the world he has like a tent on the old fogies. But, the aforesaid modern gink has another guess coming. The idea that even in slang he has put one over on his old man is no more than banana oil or raisin pie. It is not the berries. EVEN MODERN SLANG IS OLD AS ALLâ€"GETâ€"OUT TWO MORE CHIMNEY FIRES ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON Birch streetâ€"south, and the other to 155 Maple street south. Both were chimney or stovepipe blazes, and no damage resulted. Elsewhere in this issue wil} be found reference to five fire alarms turned in within the twentyâ€"four hours from noon Monday to Tuesday noon. The glory continued on Tuesâ€" day afternoon, the firemen having to respond to two calls. One was to T; Birch streetâ€"south, and the other to believe. In fact it is doubtful if he has any acqnuaimntance with an eight hour day except on behalf of some of his men. \ The fact was reiterated as it bad been stated earlier in the season that several mining companies ‘had inot widened their roads suitably during summer to make them properly acâ€" cessilble with the snow plough without damage to same, in trying to keep them ploughed for the residents. One instance of a holdâ€"up of four hours, another of six hours was quoted by the townshm» foreman, as a result ot injury to the plough on some of these narrower roads, which people are clamouring to have ploughed. In reâ€" gard to the shovelling of the snow from the streets, one councillor sugâ€" gested that the matter be left for the inâ€"coming council to decide whether it would be more economical to reâ€" move it now and avoid damaige suits later, or let it remain. Mr. Thos. Ryan, township foreman, resigned asking that it take effect not later than Dec. 15th, but offered to take his own time to show a new foreman over the road and give him the benefit of his experience. _ Reeve Kerr and Councillor Deacon were against the acceptance of his resignation but on the vote of the other three it was acâ€" n The routine accounts were passed for payment and during Court of Revision many tax appeals were adâ€" justed. 6 ] Councillor Barron asked Chief Meâ€" Innis to have the results of the milk test brought to the next couwncil meetâ€"