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VIPOXO GOXSOUOATED OECLARES FRST DIVIDEND Disbursement of hree per Ognfi. to be Made on Apnl 15th to Shareâ€" _holders. As a meeting of the directors of the Vipond Consolidated Mines, Limited, held at Toronto on Monday, the iniâ€" tial dividend was declared. The diviâ€" derd is for a disbursement of three per eent., payable April 1l5th, to shareholders of record April ist. The books will be elosed from April 1st to April 15th, both days inclusive. All who hold shares of the Vipond steek, but have not had the formal tramsfers registered, should see that the stock is made out in their names on the books of the company. If you any Vipond stock, see that it is put in your name at an early date so that there will be no questionu about your receiving the dividend in the usual way when it is. paid. Having the proper transfer‘ made now will save inconvenience at the time of the payieg of the dividend. â€"Now is a wooed time to look after the matter. Phe dividend of 3 per cent; Woes not «ome as a surprise, though some expeeted that a 5 per cent. dividend migh be paid. The directors have no do@bt studied the matter carefully and bhave set the dividend at the figure that they consider best. Lookâ€" ing to the future, it is easy to see that ingrease can bheâ€"made in the dividend if eonditions warrant, while the figure now set is one that no doubt it is believed can be consistently mainâ€" taimed. . As one writer in a Toronto paper points out the Vipond has been makirg good progress in the developâ€" mer$ of its property. The workings kave rmow reached to a depth of more tham 1,200 feet and ore reserves as of Jaly 31 last were officially estimated #0 75,000. They have ‘been increasâ€" ed simeo The acquisition of the Porâ€" Crown and Thompsonâ€"Krist adds to the company‘s potentialities. Im Desember, 3,206 tons of ore were mailed and bullion to the value of REPORT INCORREOT IN REGARD TO SALE OF CLAIMS Loo 40 atitccs c _were shipped. The .average reseyeey was $6.806 per ton. K#s. Digby Grimston informs The Advanse that the report last week reâ€" Miktire to the sale of elaims made by MWm wase ineorrest both in effect and im éstails. In faet, there was no eexe truth to the report than the one #28% Haat a deal had ‘been under conâ€" mderation. Mr. Griimston is certain ef the ralue of his elaims and is quite P #e hold them until a satisfacâ€" daai is obtainable. The reports ar Wâ€"informed people as to deals ze mot made are of no particuâ€" Â¥iiz valme in any way and rather tend ¥» detas the transfer of good properâ€" _ Accordingly the illâ€"informed Wipe af report should be discouraged. sSILVER PAYS DIVIDENDS AND BONUS with the recent rise in tha prise of bar silyer which has risen ubert $ sents over the low level of liie® year, directors of the Keeley Silâ€" res MWines, Ltd., have declared the I dividend of 8 per cent. and an additional 4 per cent. The dividend is payable March 15th, to shareholdâ€" ere ef record February 28th. The books of the company will be closed from March 1 to March 15. The ore reserves of the Keeley Mines have beem greatly increased and production is rumning at the rate of 125,000 eunses per month. Th8 ore on the Keely Mine is the richest of any ether silvyer mine in Canada. The stoek rose to 1.66 as compared with 1.61 at the close on Saturday.‘} NORTH BAY DESPATCH . CEASES PUBLICATION paper in North Bay, has/cease pubâ€" lreation after being issued continuâ€" ously for over 35 years. The plaat has been sold by Mr. G. H. Newton, the editor and proprietor, to Mr. Melâ€" ville Gibson, for fourteen years an employee of The Sudbury Star, who will eontinue the business simply as a job printing plant. The discontimuâ€" ance of The Despatch is another eviâ€" dencee of the fact that modern condiâ€" tions are all against the publishing of more than one newspaper to cover the one field. â€" Merchants and the publis alike no doubt find The Nugâ€" wet sufficient for the field. Further newspapers simply mean added east to the advertisers without compenâ€" satimg returns. if the advertisers reâ€" fuse to carry added sost, the other newsvaper is naturally crowdâ€" ed out. The people generally are reâ€" coguizmg the fact that one strong neawspaper gives ‘better service than ‘wo indifferent ones. The whole n e es\ is for the strong The North Bay Despatc_h’, th%«{dest coguizmg the fact nawspaper gives Db two â€" indifferent |« modern tendency newspaner to crow itwo indifferent ones. . modern tendency is for the strong newspaner to crowd out the weaker ones. This fact has been proved in sceores of towns and small cities durâ€" ing the past few years. Paid Circulation Last Week A despatch from Toronto on Monâ€" Director of European emigration for Canada, reports that the call for 14,000 men for Candian Farms has been received very favourably in Great Britain, and efforts will be made to brinz them to Canada this year. GIG MBGCASIN DUANGE AT ThE RIRK NEXT WEONESDAY Announcement is made this week of a grand Moceasin Dance to he givâ€" en at the Timmins Rink on W vdmsâ€" day evening of next week, Feb. 9th. In the past these mocctasin dances Special Music by the Big Brunswick Panatrope for the Dancing. (Good Prizes for the Occasion at the Timmins skating rink have been particularly enjoyable events. The one Wednesday evening next promises to ‘be even more successtul that those in the past. Thera will be special music for the occasion, this feature being furnished by the bisg new Brunswick Panatrope, which furnishes music especially good for dancing. . It may be noted by the way that the Panatrope recently inâ€" stalled is very popular and much apâ€" preciated. _ C sge« +o3 _ For the Moceasin Dance there will be some good prizes and othex' f'eaâ€" tures will add to the evening‘s inâ€" terest. Dancing will commence at 9 p.m., and all attending will find the event throughout a very pleasant one. MOUNTED POMCE BRIKGS PRISONER FROM Faf NoRth Difficult Trip Made Below Part of the Journ. What may aptly"be termed the epics of the Far North is bout in the following despatch ed this week from Island Fallb One of the Royal Canadian Mountâ€" ed Police staff, Office Trulone, reached Island Falls last week, bringing with him _ an Indian prisoner _ from Attawapiket â€" some two â€" hundred miles beyond Moose Factory. _ The trip throughout was made by dog team, and occupied nealy two months. The constable left from Moose Facâ€" tory on December 5 to take his man and, he eventually arrived at Island Falls, iaking the prisoner to Cochâ€" rane on Thursday‘s train, where he handed him over for safe keeping. He had to keep the prisoner handâ€" cuffed to himself practically throughâ€" out the entire trip, and, at nights, when camping on the trail, with no secure place to lock the prisoner, he had <to have him chained to his leg, while resting for the trip the followâ€" ing day. The prisoner, an Indian of about fifty years, is of a wild disposiâ€" tion, having never been out from the North Country. â€" While evading arâ€" rest, he fired, three shots at the conâ€" stable, but luckily for the constable he had taken a different trail to what the Indian expected, as he was waiting in ambush in the bush with a shot gun. The trip was made in wealhéer about 40 below zero, but the conâ€" stable braved the cold blasts aud with the aid of the dogs, the oxnly means â€" of transportation, _ came through the 400 miles in fine shape. This was the first time that the prisâ€" oner had ever been ont where modern transportation exists, and he was‘ very much interested when the loeal train pulled into the depot at Island Faills, Constable Trulove is very popmlar with Indians of the far north. . He took charge of the Moose Factory disâ€" » £* trict last August, heing the first R.C. M.P. to be statio tends returnine t: three weeks‘ time i His hosts of friends here gvret to learn that Mr. D. Lou the Hollinger office staff, | hospital at Montreal. Gooc for his early and completo and return to Timmins will and sincere. i 10E M f fiather 40 ‘wo Months‘ net He inâ€" tory in vill reâ€" irin, of ill in TIMMINS, ONTARIO, THUR oL > Timmins Curlers\ Make Good Showing atthe Big Bonspeil Great Interest in First Bonspeil Put On by the Northern Ontario Curling Association. Event at Haileybury This Week. Results Received This Morning. In the big ‘bonspeil which has been in progress at Haileybury this week, and ends tonight with a big smoker in the Hotel Haileybury, the followâ€" ing are the rinks drawn in the first competition, the MeKellar Cup, as furnished by one of the members of a rink from Timmins attending the bonspeil at Haileybury. Sutherland St. Thomas, vs. Caldâ€" bick, Haileybury. Kaine, Sturgeon Falls, vs. Williams New Liskeard. _ .‘ . Nicholson, Chapleau, vs. Herbert, Haileybury. _ Kilpatrick, â€" Sudbury, vs.. Clark, Haileybury. Lee, North Bay, vs. Hartman, New Liskeard. _â€" Godfrey, Chapleau, vs.. Gordon, Haileybury. , Murdock, Englehart, Fairhe, Haileybury. McCracken, Timmins, vs. Meaford, Haileybury. e e Buchanan, Englehart, vs. Gould, Haileybury. Solomon, Timmins, vs. Adair, New Liskeard. Foley, Sudbury, vs. Binkley, New Liskeard,. MceKellar, Sault Ste Marie, vs. Pickard, Haileybury. Lang, Timmins, vs. Thompson, Haiâ€" leybury. Lt @4:% L th a * '/.M;ir‘fin, Sudbury, vs. Smith, Haile bury. . m s >‘ _ E3 ter, Little Current. Woods, New Liskeard, vs. wirne! McCamusâ€"Baxter game. Wallace, North Bay, vs. MeKnight New Liskeard. Dowset, Sudbury, vs. Montgomery New Liskeard. __Paterson, . Englehart Haileybury. _ Howie, Haileybury, Anstin, Sturaeon Falls. Lome, Sault ‘Ste Marie, vs. Acâ€" Millan, New Liskeard. _ In the first big bonspeil of the Northern Ontario Curling Association 47â€" rinks are competing. Four rinks went down from Timmins for the event, skipped by Messrs 1. Solomon, NORTH BAY LOSES ITS FIRST WOMAN RESIDENT Mrs. Amelia Parks, the first white woman to reside at North Bay, died at her home in the city on Sunday evening, aged 87. She came to North Bay with her husband in 1882, and at one time the couple had a deed and farmed on the present site of the city of North Bay. . Mr. Parks died in 1902. At the time of her death, Mrs. Parks was one of the largest property holders in North Bay. The late.Mrs. Parks is survived by ten childrfi aA number of grandchildren and sevetral creatâ€"grandchildren. _ j Another old resident of North Bay also passed away on Friday last in the person of Mrs. S. Lauzon, who lacked only five months of reaching the cenâ€" tury mark. _ She had lived nearly twenty years at North Bay. Two sons, three daughters, fiftyâ€"three erandchildren, forty greatâ€"grandehildâ€" ren and twentyâ€"one greatâ€"greatâ€"grandâ€" children survive. Sudbury Cub Wolves have defaultâ€" ed the balance of their home games to North Bay. MceCamus, New Liskeard, \ THE HESITATION WALTZ V S Gibson. A. W. Lang, F. Francis and W. Meâ€" Cracken. Messrs Solomon and Tang axfi‘al representatives from the Timimins Cltb on the representative body of the newly organized Northern UOnâ€" tario Curling Association. The rinks from Timmins are:=â€" E. H. Hill, Geo. Cole, G. H. Gauâ€" thier, A. W. Lang, skip. R. H. Hall, Geo., Lake, John W att, H. N. Jackson, J. R. Todd; W. Eeclestone, I. A. Solomon, skap. Joe Amm, P. M. Gordon, 8. A. Caldâ€" bick, R. F. Francis, skip. thier, A. W. Lang, sky K. H. Hall, Geo. La Wm. MeCracken, skip The following are the results of the cames played to date in the bonspeil : Sudbury Brewing Cup MceCracken, Timmins, won from Meâ€" Knight, New Liskeard. Lang, Timmins, won from Hartman, New Liskeard. Bronson, lost to Clark. President‘s Cup Bronson lost to MeKnight, New Lisâ€" keard. Carmickael, â€"Sudbury, won from Lang, Timmins. MceCracken, Timmins, lost to Wilâ€" liagis, New Liskeard. Solomon, Timmins, lost to Clark, Haileybury. «_ Diamond Jubilee Gup Solomon, Timmins, won from Gibâ€" son, Haileybury. Bronson won from Pickard, Haileyâ€" bury. Lang, ‘Timmins, lost to Hartman, New Iaskeard. McKellar Cup MeCracken, Timmins, won from Meagher, Haileybury. Solomon, Timmins, won from Adair, Haileybury. Lang, Timmins, lost to Thompson, New Liskeard. 3ronson lost"to Dunbar. Hailey bury McCracken, Timming, won From Murdock, Englehart. The McKellar Cup is presented by the Sault Ste. Marie Curling Club, and is to be held by the winning rink for oneâ€"year. _ The Timmins rink winâ€" ning the eup is skipped by W. Meâ€" Cracken, with John Watt as vice, R. H. Hail as second and Geo. Lake as lead. In addition to the MeKellar Cup for first prize there are four inâ€" dividual prizes consisting of 4 mahoâ€" gany mantel eloeks, presented by F. R. Gibson, Haileybury. HOLLINGER STOCK MAKES NEW RECORD IN EXCHANGE A despateh from Foronto on Wedâ€" nestlay this week says:â€" . ‘‘‘The Hollinger Canada‘s, premier gold mine, eame into its own yesterâ€" day as leader of a general upward reâ€" visioning pri¢es on the mining board. _ From a previous elose of $20.50 the stock advaneed to a new high for all time at $22.75, being a gain of $2.25 on the day and $1.75 over the previous high level estabâ€" lished some weeks ago.‘‘ : A petition is being cireulated\in town this week to be sent to Ottawa, askint for a new post office at/ Timâ€" mins. The petition is being very largely signed. Indeed, it is difficult to understand how anyone with the opportunity to sign could refuse with any thought of the advantage of the town in mind. For years past the local post office has been too small and too smelly for a town as imporâ€" tant as Timmins. It is to be hoped that the petition will have effect and result in a proper post office for Timâ€" mins. *3 â€"Doyle in the Philadelphia RHeeo FEBRUARY 3rd, 1927 * Agrmessert a > the * -“:‘- ~‘***=« TAX NOTIGES FOR 1926 WILL 6f OUT NEXT WEER of Detroit Cougars, is a very clever stickhandler and uses the poke check to perfection Penalties for Nonâ€"Payment of Taxes. Will Total Ten Per Cent. After May lst. The tax notices for the 1926 taxes will be out next week. The notices this time are in improved form. The 1926 taxes are payable in two instalâ€" ments. A penalty of five per cent. will be added to the first instalment if not paid on or before March i1st, and five per cent. on the second instalâ€" ment after April 15th. In additigqn there will be a further penalty of five per cent. on all taxes unpaid by May 1st, making ten per cent. in all. ‘The notices for public school supporters are on white paper and for separate school supporters on blue paper. The 1926 council failed to eollect any taxes for the year, so the 1926 taxes already well overdue. ‘The adâ€" ditional time to March Ist for the first instalment and April 15th for the second instalment should be suiâ€" cient time to allow all to attend to their taxes. The ratepayers should, make special note of the dates so as not to have the penalties added. UNITED STATES INTHRESTS FNTER ARFA Prospecting Rush Still in Progress with the Whole Area Rapidly Being Staked Up. The latest report in regard to the Kamiskotia copperâ€"gold field is that United States financial and. mining interests have entered the field and have secured several options repreâ€" senting considerable money outluays during the coming year or so. ‘The presence of the T. N.0O. surâ€" veyors in the district mapping out a line from Timmins to the new field has naturally had a noteworthy effect. The activity of the surveyors is taken as evidence that the T. N.O. Railway will provide railway facilities just the minute that it is shown that the field is going to go abead. The genâ€" eral opinion is that the spring wil!l ‘show work sufficiently advanced on several properties. especially on the claims held by the Hollinger interâ€" ests, to warrant the fullest confidence in the new district.| Raports compg from the area are to the effect that the diamond drill cores on the celaims held ‘by the Hollinger interests are proving rich even beyond expectations and that large bodies of highâ€"grade copperâ€"gold ore are indicated by the work. The prospectors are doing their part, the whole area being veradually staked up and the work of staking being carried farther and farther aâ€" field. Godfrey and Loveland townâ€" ships are coming in for particularly favourable attention, while there is also special activity in Robb townâ€" ship. Not only is work being carried on forâ€" copperâ€"gold prospects, but some fine stakings for gold alone are are also reported. â€" The Kamiskotia area has escaped the overâ€"booming that has injyured so many new camps. In the spring. however, it is believed that there will be further increase of activities and that considerable eapital will be atâ€" tracted to the field. There is a genâ€" eral feeling that this year will see developments in Kamiskotia ard. that these developments . will mean progress and advancement also for the town of Timmins. A stove in the home of Mr. A. Daâ€" bous, Cobalt, exploded: one day last week. The stove was completely wrecked, but little damage done otherâ€" wise. There was no one in the room 2t the time of the explosion. Apparâ€" ently the waterâ€"jacket in the stove froze up during the night, this causâ€" inz the explosion after the stove was ishted in the morning. MA H. M. STEVEN,PAGat AWAY IN TORONTO GURDAY Former Popular "Head of HB‘! Engineering Staff Succumbs Pneumonia There will be the very deepest reâ€" gret and sincere sorrow here at the death in ‘Toronto on Sunday, Jam. 30th, of Mr. Hugh MceGregor Stevem, in his 37th year. Death was due to pneumonia,. The last illness was ef short duration, the late Mr. Stever being ill only a week or two. For several years the late Hughk M. Steven was mine engineer for the Hollinger, and he was one of the most popular members of the Hollimâ€" ger staff. A thorough gentleman ard a perfect good fellow, in the best sense of the words, he had innumerâ€" able friends here, and his death wil come as a decided shock to them. The late Hugh M. Steven came 4e Timmins in 1911 and was on the Holâ€" linger staff until after the outbreak of the war. . He went overseas with the Canadian Engineers as a lieutemâ€" ent in 1915 and won promotion overâ€" seas to the rank In 1939 he returned to the Hollinger where he took up his duties as mirse engineer holding the positionâ€"until last year when he resigned to goâ€"to Toronto, The funeral was held from the home of his pavrents in Toronto, burial beang inade at Hamilton, Ont. The funceral was private, but the large number of beautiful floral lllblltt‘b testified $# the regard in which the deceased was held by wide cireles of frionds an« the deep sympathy felt with the fameâ€" ilv in their bereavement: ROUYN ASKING TO BE \ . INCORPORATED AS 'not;lt The village of Rouyn, Quebdt¢, is asking by private bill in the Q Legislature this session thht \Â¥ke scamp be given the status of a req? town. Among the pronswns i2 Se hill asking for ineorporation, thame are provisions requesting that these be six wards, unless additional imansd is annexed, and power to annex nogh â€" boring land with the eonsent of fe Lieutenantâ€"Governorâ€"inâ€"Council. K is asked that the~municipality smy grant to any industry or eommesse wishing to establish there a commaleâ€" lion of taxes for a period of #e years, but such commutation shaH 2#( be lower than 25 per sent. of the"reai value and furthermore the must approve of the byâ€"laws grrowi t â€" ing the commutation. Tunumerable friends in the towme and distriect will regret to know £ the death of Mr. Joseph Valiqueoti, the sad event taking place at hospital <hbere on Sunday morni Jan. 30th. <The late Mr. Valiqum was for a great many years an estcemâ€" \ ed resident of Timmins. He was of the prospectors of the district ame was also interested in the general _ relopment of the eountry, haviag® many interests in the town and dm»â€" triect. At the time of death, he wuws 50 years of age. He was unmarrisd. He was born near Buckingham, Que#., and the remains were shipped % Buckingham Junction for burial t his old home. Death was due to t%yâ€" phoid fever. The funeral here was largely attended and there were many beautiful floral tributes. _ The late Mr.. Valiquette was a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, and the Titeâ€" mins members turned out in~a body to pay their last respects to him. DEATH OF MR. J. VALIQUETIE ON sUNDAY MORNTIN® VIGTORIAN DROER DOMNG co00 WORK iN TIMMINS Reports for Months of November and December Show Steady Progress in the Usefulness of the Work Here On ~Monday evening the regular monthly meeting of the Timmins Yic- torian Order of Nurses committee was held in the Empire Hotel Grill Room, with the president, Mr. P. Dougall in the chair. Miss Elliott, the V.O.N. nurse here presented her report for the month of December, and also her annual reâ€" port for the work done in 1926. This covered only two months, the nurse coming here in November, but the report showed steady progress and indicated the great usefulness of the work, and the benefit to the town. Miss Elliott‘s office is in the town hall, upstairs and calls may be left for her at Phone 121. 7â€"Plzms for a campaign for further funds to earry on the work were discussed, but definite action in this line was deferred until next meeting, the third Monday in February. One of the proposals favoured was a Tag Day. the whole towan to be thorouchâ€" Iv ceovered. PRICE FIVE CEN t1¢ regeula: Paid Circulation Last Week n 2l