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Aged Indian Tells 3;‘: of Pioneering Days : by, days in many cases that were passâ€" ed before most peorle alive toâ€"day were even born, it can be understood that in his interviews with the press he had a nappy time as well as the newspaperâ€" men finding the chat of interest and informative. Chene Mechelle, an Indian of eighty ’ years of age, was in Haileybury last' wrek and to newspapermen gave an ; interview that is of more or less historic ! irportance. He was in Haileybury t-o‘ visit his daughter who is recovering from a recent attack of appendicitis at the Haileybury hospital. All his life | Mr. Mechelle has been a resident ofl Hrunmter‘s Point on Kipawa Lake, but he ' has travelled rather widely in the North and has a wide knowledge of this counâ€" ! try. In addition he has an e‘ccellent‘ memory and can recall persons and | events in this North and incidents m‘ the life of Temiskaming that have parâ€" | ticular interest and value now from | the standpoint of the siory of this | country. Mr. Mechelle is a fine speciâ€" | men of Indian manhood and despite his | age is upright and active and has all ; his faculties alert. He enjoys t,ellingg of the days long past and recalling afâ€" fairs now passed from general memory. One of his delights is to explain the j meanings of the many Indian words| used to designate rivers, lakes and other places and things in the North. In view of the fund of information that| he has in regard to the North, and the | pleasure he experiences in passing on accurate information of days long gone | During his stay in Hailleybury Mr. Mechelle had long talks with the newsâ€" Munter‘s Point Resident Gives Inter view at Haileybury in Regard to the Early Days of the North Land. 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In those days, Mr. Mechelle says, the shores were lined with green timâ€" ber, chiefly red rine and spruce, and there had been no forest fires until 50 years ago, when one swept a portion of the Quebec shore and the island now known as Burnt Island., papermen and among other things he told of the work he performed many years ago while in the service of the Hudson Bay Compihany of Gentlemen Adventurers. His duties during the years that he worked for the Hudson Bay Co. took him up and down the north‘s waterways, and one of his memories has to do with the disapâ€" nearance of McLean, the free trader who had, so the old story goes, enâ€" crcoached on the company‘s hunting grounds despite warnir{;s, and who vanished from a camp he had made on a small island below the Narrows and was never seen again. To this day, the island bears his name and is pointed out to the curious sightseer sailing on the lake. The old Indian knew the late C. C. Farr, founder of Haileybury, when the latter was Hudson‘s Bay factor at Hunter‘s Point, and he told how he used "to mind Mrs. Farr‘s baby." Mr. Mechelle worked under "Old Mr. Ranâ€" kin" and he can tell stories of the many trips made between James Bay and the oustide world in days when the canoe was the only means of transporâ€" tation. He remembers when the only settier on the Ontario side of Lake Temiskaming was a man named Wabis, North Bay Nugget:â€"It is announâ€" ced that there is likely to be a fish hatchery located in North Bay. Too bad they couldn‘t raise a few fish like those pictured on the souvenir post cards, That would help the tourist trade. . AND U.S. PAT. OFF. Send for our Faâ€" mous Recipe Book. 1t contains nearly 200 economical Recipes chosen from 75,000 receivâ€" ed from housewives throughout Canâ€" ada. This book took many months to prepare and every Recipe has been approved and tested by a famous Canadian dietiâ€" tian. Mail coupon, Enclose 10¢ to covâ€" er cost of mailing. The regatta ana carnival was a failâ€" ure owing to lack of public support. It must be understcod it is impossible to carry on a band without funds. The layers are giving their time for the love of music having received no reâ€" muneration for their services this year. Without public support it is impossible to carry on band successfully. As far as loggerheads are concerned it does not exist in the Timmins Citizens‘ Band. We turned out a little while ago to give a concert on the band stand â€"and when we got the music and stands and instruments ready there were no lights, reason was the meter had been taken out. And, "Timmins Citizen," ‘the above band practices twice per week, on Mondays and Thursdays. We would welcome you or any Oother citizen inâ€" terested in T. C. Band. Any information you may require regarding T. C. Band will be given you at their headquarters in the Central school basement on the above nights between the hours of 7.30 p.m. and 9 pm. My concluding stateâ€" ment is that we are and never have been anything than Timmins Citizens‘ Band. Trusting that this fills all your engquirâ€" ies, we are, To suggest that the council is reâ€" sponsible in any way for the condition of the band is to be most unfair, The council gave the heartiest support to the band and showed rare patience this year in the matter. The grant was not withheld until the council was publicly informed by a responsible official of the band that the grant was no longer deâ€" sired as the band did not intend any further to "sponge on the ratepayers." Dear Sir:â€"In reply to the letter you published in your last issue, Sept. 16th. First, we beg to state that the Timâ€" mins Citizens‘ Band is still functionâ€" ing and is progressing as weil as conâ€" ditions will allow, according to the way the members are employed at the local mines, being on two and three shifts cach week, at diffen>nt hours, and most of them are on shift work when reâ€" quired for concert or other engageâ€" ments. Last year we were able to pay the bandsmen for the time they lost at work but we cannot do it now for reasons I will state further down. The Sunday work which has been this sumâ€" mer at the mines has made it almost impassible to muster enough players to put on a band concert in the band stand. Also, we sacrificed one month this year to put on regatta and carâ€" nival in July, which was arranged durâ€" ing the office of our late president (A. E. Mortimer) and was widely advertisâ€" ed, so we had to go on with the said regatta and carnival. It will be good to mention the reason of regatta and carnival was to raise funds for the band as we were informed that the council desired to withdraw our grant, which has been donated yearly to the Timmins Citizens‘ Band. I will state here that is the reason we could not pay the players for lost time at all conâ€" certs. Yours very sincerely, Timmins Citizens‘ Band, O. McCann, Secretary. The above is no reply at all to the letter written last week by the rateâ€" rlivyer of the town, signing himself "Timmins Citizen." The painfully deâ€" tailed mention of the different shifts does not answer the query as to why no concerts were given this summer. The difficulty in regard to the shifts has been one that the band has had to contend with since its organization, yet year after year twelve to twenty open air concerts were given during the sumâ€" mer. In other years the band made an honest effort to overcome the difficulty and of course they were successful in this because of their sincerity. Condiâ€" tions this year in regard to the shifts are no different to what they were in other years, it is the band that is difâ€" ferent. Former officials of the band will reâ€" sent the insinuations made against the council for they know the council has been sympathetic and generous in its attitude to the band. The goodwill and generous treatment of the Hollinâ€" ger to the band is also worthy of menâ€" tion at this time when the band seems inclined to forget these things. There will be equal resentment at the suggestion that the public has failed in its support of the band. The public in Timmins have never yet failed to support any worthy cause. That is a broad statement, but it is true. The goodwill of the public was one of the mast valuable assets of the band in years gone by. If that goodwill has been alienated, the fault does not rest with the public. The lack of patronage at the regatta event was indeed an evidence of the good spirit of the pubâ€" lic, because the band deliberately stagâ€" ed the regatta on the day celebrated by the North Land as a whole as Day at Schumacher. Schumacher peoâ€" ple also, it may be noted, have been generous in their support of the Timâ€" mins Band, which makes the conflict of dates the more deplorable. To the Editor of _ The Advance, Timmins About the Timmins Band and Its State this issue follows :â€" secretary of Timmins Citizens‘ Band Writes in Regard to Letter Publishâ€" ed Last Week Enguiring About the Band. Last week The Advance published a etrer regarding conditions in the Timâ€" mins Citizens‘ Band and the failure to music here during the summer. This week The Advance received comâ€" »unications from both the acting preâ€" ident of the band and from the secreâ€" ary. The letter from the president of hz band will be found elsewhere in his issue. The secretary‘s letter is as It is refreshing to learn that an acâ€" Timmins, Sept. 21st, 1931 THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO This week The Advance has received the following letter from the acting president of the Timmins Citizens Band. This letter follows much the same line as taken by the secretary of the band in the letter published elseâ€" where in this issue. The conditions specified in the two letters are no difâ€" ferent from what have obtained since the organization of the band and in no sense constitute any reply to the letter by ‘"The Timmins Citizen". The sugâ€" gestion of the acting president that a Acting President of the Band Writes The public have a right to consider all these matters. The public should not be expected to be content to atâ€" tend practices and concerts for which a charge is made. If the band will play fair with the public it will be found that the public will show the greatest kindness to the band and the band will not lack for support from any quarter. looked to the reâ€"instatement of the meter had it been removed. They could have been expected at the very least to have assured themselves that things were in order at the stand before the carrying over of music, stands and instruments. Yes, though all these terrible things had happened once, they would surely have seen that they were righted before the next time, and that there would be a next time. In telling about this one concert that did not materialize the secretary forgets ito mention the one that did. That was a concert held at Kirkland Lake at the expense of Timmins money, and apparâ€" ently carried through desp‘te the diffiâ€" culties of different shifts and removed meters. Reply to Letter in Last Week‘s Adâ€" vance Along Same Lines as by Secretary Elsewhere in This Issue. tual attempt was made this summer to hold at least one concert. Surely there is insight given into the real trouble with the band in the excuse given by the secretary for the failure to proâ€" ceed with that one concert, The bandâ€" master and the secretary in previous years would certainly have considered it their duty to see that the light bill was paid, and so the meter would not have been removed. In any case they could have been depended unon to have could have looked to Super â€" MctToR RAbio YICTOR TALKING MACHINE COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED â€"MONTREAL AA A LT KR L MA CB A hh HIS MASTERSâ€"YOICE 4 f f ie P A really conclusive test of radio value â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" Use Radio Performance Week . . . September 25â€"October 3 . . . to reâ€" move all doubt in choosing your radio. 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Here is the opportunity to judge radio on nothing but facts â€" facts which establish the highest standards radio has ever been called upon to face. The second reason:â€"Concerts have been difficult to arrange in that memâ€" bers of the band take their turn workâ€" ing Sundays. They have no other option; their living Gdepends on it. During last winter we could sometimes arrange for bandsmen to get off for a concert, but at the same time we had to make good their lost wages. This summer we were unable to do that, the funds being too low. If we had no grant from the Hollinger Mining Co., the band would now be out of existence. The third reason is we had to sacriâ€" fice one month‘s practice to carry out the regatta and carnival arranged to raise funds. I might say that the whole affair was a failure owing to lack of public support, chiefly owing to the unâ€" derstanding that the town looked after the band and so the affair was unnecesâ€" sary, neither would it have been if the council had carried out their part, which, perhaps, wasn‘t their fault altoâ€" Firstly. The members being working men chiefly miners, they cannot choose the working shift most suitable for atâ€" tending practice which is essential for concert work. The present employment of members leaves the band in two fractions, one practising each week. Our only hope to overcome this state of affairs is Sunday practice. We of the executive did not think that we would be justified in arranging Sunday practice during the summer months for the simple reason that bandsmen need other recreation besides blowing an instrument, band work being their hobby not their means of livelihood. Mr. ‘"Timmins Citizen":â€"In answer to your request for information regardâ€" ing the progress of the Timmins Citiâ€" zens‘ Band, also the reason for nonâ€" appsearance at the band stand this sumâ€" mer I shall endeavour to explain. public meeting be called and a comâ€" mittee appointed apart from the band members has some merit, but The Adâ€" vance is inclined to think the real reâ€" medy lies in a reâ€"organization of the band itself, the officials apparently beâ€" ing unequal to the task undertaken. However, as the case is covered by the comments on the letter of the secreâ€" tary. the letter of the acting may be given without further comment: Timmins, Ont., Sept. 21st, 1931 To the Editor of The Advance, Timmins Dear Sir:â€"Re the let Sept. will you kindly ; lowing :â€" M A STER BUILDER S OF RADIO Re the letter of the 16th i kindly publish the folâ€" The special provincial game commitâ€" tee appointed by the Legislature last session concluded its work in the North last week and left for the South to complete its report ready for presentaâ€" tion to the Government. The commitâ€" tee spent several weeks touring Northâ€" ern Ontario, and made a special feature of receiving the opinions of fish and game clubs, rod and gun clubs and game protection associations, as well as the ideas of individuals on fish and game conservation and expansion. The committee were particularly impressed with the possibilities of the tourist trafâ€" fic and considered that one of the bigâ€" gest attractions that Ontario had to Now, Mr. "Timmins Citizen", if you and the others you would like to operâ€" ate with you can straighten out the above tangle, we bandsmen would much appreciate your services. It is my inâ€" tention to call a public meeting in the near future with the object of electing a committee of management outside of band members. We would like at least one representative of the council, one of the Hollinger staff, with three or more citizens. Perhaps, then someâ€" thing can be done to strengthen the asition of the Timmins Citizens‘ Band and give the members a chance to proâ€" gress to a brass band second to none in Canada. F GAME COMMITTEE THROUGH WITH ITS WORK OF INQUIRY gether : Moisley Ball Sith 4h t h 4 j L Sp Lp 4p4 L L6 L3 L4 L L LA LA LC LC R. N. 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The committee while noting anything in regard to fish paid special attention to game matters, another committee a year or so before having dealt exhausâ€" tively in the fish question. The comumittee visited Timmins last week a full report of their meeting here being given in the last issue of The Advance. Other places where mestings were held were:â€"Chapleau, Schreiber, Port Arthur, Fort William, Kenora, Fort FPrancis, Minaki, Sioux Lookout, Kapuskasing, Cochrane, New Liskeard, Temagami. They also visited the sanctuary at St. Ignace Island where they saw six moose and one bear. At Cochrane one member of the paurty had his automobile surrounded by a wolf or two, according to the desâ€" patches. Thursday, Sept. 24th, 1931