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Porcupine Advance, 19 Jul 1928, 2, p. 4

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Taylor Mrs. Cecil Culbert, a former resiâ€" dent here, accompanied by her broâ€" therâ€"inâ€"law, Mr. Greber, of Cleveland, Ohio, visited friends in town, the guests of Mrs. E. J. Rapsey. Messrs Joe and J. B. Pessah, of Anâ€" sonville, visited friends in town, over the weekâ€"end. Two South Porcupine Children Suffer Fractured Wrists. Patients from Highway Accident Not Yet Able to Apâ€" pear at Inquest. Girl‘s Camp to be Held at Squaw Isâ€" land. Other South Porcupine News. South Poreupine, Ont., July 17th, 1928. Special to The Advance. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Master Hugh Train bhad the misâ€" Hotpoint Iron as here, that is, an unusu@l amount of rainy weather, Mr. George Cole returned from Toâ€" ronto on Sunday and reports Mr. W. Donaghue as looking well after his recent operation. Mr. and Mrs. M. Rapsey, of Windâ€" sor, motored up the latter part of the week to see Mr. Rapsey‘s mother, who has been seriously ill. Miss Beatrice Dowzer returned with them to Windâ€" Misses Jean and Frances Wright leave on Thursday for a holiday in Ottawa. ; Their father . Mr. ‘P. J. Wright will accompany them as far as North Bay, then go on to Toronto. Mrs. W. W. {Wison Jleaves this week for a vacation in Braccbridge. We hear that several of the cars leaving here last week for the South got into difficulty with the mud at Ramore. Mr. and Mrs. Trueluffe, of the Dome, returned on Saturday and reported some of their. neighhbours from there as being very firmly imâ€" bedded in the mud when they met them. fortune to break one of the bones of his wrist while wrestling with one of his chums. Mr. and Mrs] A. Tomchick and daughter Grace are spending a vacaâ€" tion in Deseronto. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Pearce have arrived safely in â€" England and reâ€" port conditions there much the same Master Carlo Cattarello is visiting friends in Cobalt. He will bhe met there by his cousin, Jolhin Cattarello, who is arriving from Italy on Thursâ€" day and will make his home at South Poreupine. Mr. and Mrs. Judson C. Welliver and two daughters, of Washington, D.C., returned with Col. and Mrs. Stevenson from their motor trip to United States, and will be their guests here while in camp. Mr. and Mrs. F. Baker and daughâ€" ter, of Toronto, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. MacDowell, at the Bank of Toronto, having motored up on Monâ€" day. In the police court on Thursday there were three drunks who paid the usual $10 and costs; three were fined for allowing dogs to run at large, and one speeder was fined. Mr. F. Dowzer is holidaying at V ermillion Lake. The inquest into the death of Mrs. Marina Ziglotte had to be again postâ€" poned owing to the two patients at the hospital, Lorenzo Ziglotte and Anâ€" gelo Artuso, not being able to give evidence, according to the testimony of Dr. MceLaren. The jurors all went in one of Cunâ€" ningham‘s buses out to the scene of the tragedy. It was thought better to visit the location of the accident before the repairs would be made on the road out there. On Saturday evening, July 14th, Rev. E. C. Moddle joined in holy matrimony, Margaret, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Schoenchen, of Toronto, to Michael MeMahon, of Porquis Junetion. _ The bride‘s paâ€" rents were present for the ceremony which was performed at the manse. After the ceremony a sumptous wedâ€" ding dinner was partaken of at the future home of the bride and groom in Lakeview townsite. The tax notices are out and taxes are being paid at a fairly good rate, a conslderalb]e amount running \\ell into four figures having been paid on the first day. This year taxes are due in two instalments, the first being due on August I1st, after which the person owing them will be penalized for nonâ€"payment.. . The assessment ths year was completed in scheduled time by April 30th but after the time for appeals is allowed, then more time for setting the rate, it left matâ€" ters so that the notices were not out very long before the first payment became due. Messrs A. P. McKenzie and Jack Sutherland are on a prospecting trip in Northern Quebec, having left on Monday of this week. Applications have poured in very plentifully for the positions of prinâ€" cipal and assistant at Golden City public school. _ We believe between two and three hundred applications have been received. The volunteers of D. Company, of Algonquin Rifles returned from camp at Collingwood and report wonderful weather throughout their training and a very enjoyable trip. Mr. Jim Kennedy, of Pembroke, who has been in town in connection with his mining claims in Eldorado and Carmen, is returning to his home on Wednesday. The Porcupire Raseball club played the league match that had to be postâ€" poned on account of the rain Saturâ€" day, on Monday at Schumacher and suffered defeat at the hands of the Melntyre team. The sceore was 7â€"4 in favour of Schumacher team. Mr. Ralph DePaola left Monday for Amos, Quebec. Miss Frances King, of Poreupine, is holidaying in Timmins this week. Mr. Hortie, of Golden City, is on a trip down to the Gatineau river. We hear on good authority that the % Seottish Ontasrio will be prepared to WWW: go ahead with its work on a much larger seale by the fall. Little Madeleine DeRosa had the misfertune to break her wrist while playing with her brother on Saturday evening last and put in painful time but it is improving now. Madeâ€" liene is just nine years old and was thoroughly enjoying her holidays, happy in the thought that she had passed first of a large class in Semior III grade in school which is very creâ€" ditable for a child of that age. On Saturday evening a motor car containing four Swedes crashed into Spadafore Bros‘ truck on (Golden avenue. No one was hurt but Chief Mcelnnis was promptly on hand and the sequel will be heard at this Thursâ€" day‘s police court. Mrs. Dan Lemon, of Monekland, Ont., is visiting her daughters, Mrs. J. Doran and Mrs. Richardson, of Mrs. Dan Lemon, of Monekland, Ont., is visiting her daughters, Mrs. J. Doran and Mrs. Richardson, of the Dome Mines. A party in celeâ€" bration of the four generations of the family was held at the home of Mrs. Doran. The four generations includâ€" ed Mrs. Lemon, her daughter Mrs. Doran, Mrs. Ed. Syvyert Mrs. Doran‘s daughter and the small daughter of Mrs. Syvert. Miss Stella Lemon acâ€" ‘ompdmcd her mother to visit h('r sister here. There is rumour of the amalgamaâ€" tion of the Chibougamauâ€"Prospectins Syndicate and the Steelâ€"Fortune Synâ€" dicate. The new company will conâ€" tro} some twenty or more claims in the Chibougamau district on which attenâ€" tion is becoming more and more foâ€" eussed,. The late Jules St. Paul was organizer of the Chibougamau Lake Syndicate in conjunection with Mather cussed, ihe organizer of Syndicate in Harkness, _â€"Mr. Frank Sullivan left on Sunday for New Mexico to visit his fdther who is ill there. Mr. Gordon Baxter went to Toronâ€" to toâ€"day to have an operation perâ€" formed on his nose. The girls‘ camp is again being held at Night Hawk Lake, Squaw Island, beginning on July 23rd, and is in charge of Miss Quick, deaconess, of Timmins. Any girls desirous of atâ€" tending kindly notify Rev. E. C. Modâ€" dle, of South Poreupine or Miss Quick No further news has been received from Andrew Taylor, missing in Norâ€" thern Manitoba since June 28th. His brother, Will, wired that he had arâ€" rived at the Sherrittâ€"Gordon and with a group of men was starting out in search of his brother. ey‘‘ in which the Owl Patrol won. Some of the makeâ€"believe horses were rather crippled in the race hy stumbâ€" ling aver the stumps, ete., but it was very much enjoyed in spite of bruises, etc. The Boy Scouts held their regular meeting on Friday night. One of the main features was a game of **Jockâ€" Mr. Frank Gervais is erecting a fine new barn on his farm at Golden City. Mrs. Bannerman, Sr. visited friends in Matheson this week. If Safety isn‘t first there may be no opportunity for other things.. Mr. Campsall, of Bobs Lake, had some fine speciments of asbestos ore in town this week. He is interested in two properties here, both showing good ashestos. OPEN/ING ALUIGUWUST 1ST Empive MDotel This distinctive and new hotel offers you accommoâ€" dation of rare quality and an environment of restful quiet and comfort. Situated at the Gateway of the North, you will enjoy your prospective motor trip more, if you break your journey at North Bay and enjoy the unique service and comfort of a guest of the Empire Hotel. In the centre of North Bay, near the principal theatres and the stock exchanges, midway between the two depots. Service Second to None in any of the Largest Hotels in the Dominion of Canada. TOU RISTS lst there promises to most unique field days It is under the ausâ€" Band and the Senior NORTH BAY, ONTARIO "Your Home Away from Home" â€"Exchange T0 INVESTIGATE ABITIBI DISiRIGTԤ RESOURCES Retired Londonr Banker Now in Norâ€" thern Quebec Looking Over the Possibilities of the Area. Mr. Clifford Taber MeAllister, reâ€" tivred London ‘banker, is in the Abitibi district of Northwestern Quebec this week, his purpose being to investiâ€" gate the resources and possibilities of the country generally, Rarlier in the week Mr. MeAllister was at Montreal, where he visited Mayor Houde. While in Montreal Mr. MeAllister explained the purpose of his visit to the Abitibi area. One despatch from Montreal quotes him as saying:â€"‘"The occasion of my present visit here is to ascerâ€" tain and examine all the facts that concern Northwesterh Quebece as reâ€" gards mineral, agricultural and fors estry potentialities,""‘ said Mr. Meâ€" Allister. ‘I am returning to Ottawa this afternoon, thence I am going north to investigate the possibilities of developing the Abitibi District, in which I am at present very heavily inâ€" terested. This is the occasion of my visit here."‘ It may be noted here that Mr. Mceâ€" Allister offered some five years or so ago to supply Montreal with 60,â€" 000 tons of Welsh coal, at the time of the strike of the United States anthraâ€" cite mumers Mcintyre Teams Win Second and Fourth Places, O‘Brien Mine Third and Lake Shore Fifth HOLLINGER TEAM WINS WNIGHT FARST AID SHIFLG The result of the George Wright Shield, 1928, First Aid Competition for Mines of Northern Ontario, has been announced. ; The Hollinger team_ winsâ€" first place; Melntyre No. 1 team second; O‘Brien Mine, Cobalt, third; Melnâ€" tyre No. 2 team, fourth; and Lake Sshore Mine, Kirkland Lake, fifth. In the competition the possible points obtainable were 322, and so the following results will be noted as specially good :â€" Firstâ€"The Hollinger, with 276 points obtained. Secondâ€"Melntyre No. 1 team, 242% points obtained. Thirdâ€"O‘Brien Mine, Cobalt, 241 points. Fourthâ€"Melntyre No. 2 team, 231 points. Fifthâ€"Lake Shore Mine, Kirkland Lake, 225 points. The winning team, the Hollinger, included :â€"â€" T. H. Richards, {Capt.), (Geo. A. Gibson, W. Hogg and Fred Jackson. These are all members of the Timmins Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. The winning of the Geo. Wright shield for First Aid is considered a high honour and emblematic of the highest efficieney in first aid work. Accordingly the Hollinger team, winnâ€" ing as they did by a noteworthy marâ€" gin over their nearest qgompetitor, deserve congratulation and commendâ€" ation alike. Anâ€" Aberdonian admits that he hasn‘t enjoyed a smoke since the price of tobacco went up. He says, ""It‘s ower dear tae buy, and when I get a fill o‘ my pipe I put sae much in my Saunders MceKay: "I see the papâ€" ers are sayin‘ that a married man lives lzmgu than a single ane. D‘ye think that‘s true?" His friend, ‘‘No‘ a bit o‘t. It only looks langer.‘‘ pipe winna draw â€"Exchange. â€"Exchange

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