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At a private getâ€"together of the Fireéâ€"|through without a hitch. men this week it was unanimously deâ€" Mr. Victor Evans left on Friday to cided to give the Oldâ€"Timers‘ dinnerispend the Christmas vacation in Winâ€" again this year after the Christmas|nipeg with his people. and New Year festivities are over. Sorry| _ Miss Mary McIntosh is home for the that an error crept into last week‘s| holidays from the Ontario Ladies‘ Colâ€" column. The council are not responâ€"}lege, Whitby. sible for any of the "Oldâ€"Timers" dinâ€" Mrs. Dowsett is visiting her daughter, ner expense, which is borne entirely by, Mrs. J. McCrae, at the Dome for the the Firemen, as their contribution to!Christmas season. Mr. Dowsett and the community spirit which makes up| Miss Betty are expected early in the the Christmas Porcupine Punch Bowl.| week. Bornâ€"On Dec. 2nd to Mr. and Mrs. The Misses Frances and Mary King W. Parker, of South Porcupineâ€"a son.lcame home to Golden City on Friday Mr. John Gibbons. of Noranda, is exâ€" for a three weeks‘ vacation from North Mr. and Mrs. Bert Smith left on Friday for Whitbhy for the vacation. Miss Verne Smythe is leaving on Sunâ€" day to spend Christmas with her broâ€" ther in Matachewan. Wwe‘ve seen Santa Claus so many times here lately that we may be pardoned for getting a bit confused. Santa has been tall and short, inclined to rotunâ€" dity, and almost slight, but in each case he has worn the same old smile (and the same old toggery (?) and has been received with the same raptuous yell from the youngsters. Which shows us that after all Shakespeare was right and that "The play‘s the thing‘â€"and who cares for small details anyway. be in a sleigh with bells on. And for all the children who will be there he will have a bag of candies, nuts and fruit, And the bigger the yell you give, the better he‘ll be pleased. Purtherâ€" more he is going to visit the Dome and Schumacher tooâ€"in the same sleigh! The post office is almost snowed unâ€" der with mail and parcels. Eight helpers are working hard to clear both ways, and are having a strenuous time. Lines of people waiting to give and to receive make the post office a very busy place these days. We hear too that the passenger travel on the T. N. O. is almost a record. Mr. Alec MacMurray will spend Christmas with his mother in Hamilâ€" South Dec. 21ist. Special to The Advance. And the jolly old fellow isn‘t through yet, from whispers that have come to us. â€" And just in case somebody hasn‘t seen him yet We Wi«;h to announce that on Christmas FEve (Tuesday) at 7 p.m. he is going to drive from his home in the Heart of Everywhere right through South Porcup"mes main avenue where the Christmas tree is waiting and he‘ll Will Also Visit Schumacher and the Dome. _ Children to Receive Candies, Nuts, Fruits, etec. Other Items of Inâ€" terest from South Porcupine and the Dome. Santa Claus in Person to Visit South Porcupine PAGE TwoO PURITY FLOUR Best for all your Bakin‘ There is no guess work in the milling of Purity Fleus,. Twiceâ€"daily baking tests by our laboraâ€" toriecs ensure even, dependable and uniform quality. Enjoy the finest cakes, pastry, rolls or bread you ever tasted. ‘"Purity‘‘ goes farther. ~ Q@ Joyous Christmas j h ue #4 i y_ %‘/ } .:‘ As usual they had a splendid proâ€" gramme and a jolly timeâ€"we believe they had just the nicest Santa Claus ever, who wanted to kiss all the childâ€" ren (girls preferred?). Mrs, McCatfâ€" frey was unfortunately sick, and could not be present to play the piano, but Miss Carlson was good enough to help out, and the programme was carried through without a hitch. Mrs. Dowsett is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. McCrae, at the Dome for the Christmas season. Mr. Dowsett and Miss Betty are expected early in the week. Little Mary Harper‘s seventh birthâ€" day comes just four days before Christâ€" mas, but she is having a lovely party this afternoon just the same. Fourâ€" teen of her little friends are helping her celebrate. â€"The annual ratepayers‘ meeting to elect trustees for the public school is to be held the day after Chrx.stmas in the High School. The Dome Sunday School of the United Church held their Christmas tree and concert in the community hall at the Dome on Thursday night. Mr. H. Sutcliffe, of New Liskeard, was a visitor at the Empress hotel this week: also Mr. H. Goebel, of Noranda. Mr. J. Cooper left for his home in Toâ€" ronto this week for Christmas and Mr. T. Kingston for New Liskeard. Mrs. Carlson and Miss Corinne left on Friday for Toronto to spend Christâ€" mas with the rest of the family. Mr. Carlson will leave on Tuesday. Nikolai Maenpaa, the Finn who was stabbed here last week is recovering from his horrible knife wounds. We regret that we hit a fellow when he was down, last week. The alleged wouldâ€"be murderer should not have been brandâ€" eéd with a former crime. It is another local Finn who stabbed his brother in Finland and killed him. Miss Kathleen and Mary Gallagher are expected home for Christmas, from the University of Toronto. pectefi home on Monday to spend Christmas with his parents. OQur sincere thanks to our Customers fer their patronage and to our Staff for their loyal coâ€"operation "T. EATON to One and QAll xC $ K <h‘ Christmas is perhaps responsible for the invention of cookies. Over in the Scandinavian countries cookies, cut in fancy shapes and gaily decorated, are still being hung on the Christmas tree. This custom has existed for hundreds of years. Perhaps some good Scandiâ€" navian housewife discovered that cookâ€" ies would serve a double purpose if she added more flour and more shortening Miss Shaw is spending Christmas with Mrs. Heath in Kirkland Lake. All the teachers at the residence, with exâ€" ception of Miss Higgins have left to spend the holiday season at their reâ€" spective homes. Miss McPhail, of the High School staff, has left for Uxbridge and Miss Lucas for Wyoming, Ont. Little Carmen Rotondo, of Goldsn City, is in St. Mary‘s hospital, Timâ€" mins, recovering nicely from pneuâ€" monia after measles. Mrs. Ed. Smith, of Golden City, gave a nice little concert programme with children in the town hall on Friday night. A Christmas tree with gifts and Santa Claus was provided through the Salvation Army Sunday School. training of young Northern teachers is being put into effect this year. These young ladies are to spend one of the vacation weeks at their local school, observing and teaching to equip themâ€" selves with knowledge of rural school routine and to gain efficiency in teachâ€" ing. Mrs. H. P. DePencier and Miss Winâ€" nie have returned from Toronto and are at the Dome for Christmas. Mr. Joe Denholme and Albert Painter left on Sunday to spend Christmas in Montreal. Bay Normal School. A new idsa in the Mr. Bruce Stovel and his brother, Sam, are home for Christmas from Montreal. Jim Morgan is spending Christmas with the family in Toronto. The sister of Mrs. George Rlch is visiting her from Alberta. The Lutheran Finns held a most sucâ€" cessful tea and sale of work in the parish hall on Thursday afternoon. The coffee bread was as excsollent as the nesedle craft. Homeâ€"Made Cookies for | the Christmas Season Doesn‘t Seem Like Christmas Without the Oldâ€"Time Cookâ€" ies. In Scandinavia They are Still Used as Tree Decorâ€" ations â€" Recipes for Some Special Cookies. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TTMMINS, ONTARIO to her cake mixture so that she could roil it out and cut it into fancy shapes. \ â€"In Scandinavia and Germany there are all sorts of special recipes which are used only at Christmas time. Some of these are the guarded property of a i family. There will be an exchange of Christmas cakes but never of recipes. Actually there are not so many types of cookies although there may be many varlations of each typs. At holiday time when we are willing to devote time fo the preparation, EFasier than cither of these to preâ€" pare are what are often known as iceâ€" box cookies. The thick dough is made into roll, wrapped in paper to chill and then sliced and decorated, or not, beâ€" fore baking. For a drop cookie the dough is thick but not stiff. It is dropped from a tablespoon or teaspoon and after bakâ€" ing will have a homeâ€"made appearâ€" ance which is attractive. Cookies of this sort do not lend themselves to decoration. At holiday time when we are willing to devote time fo the preparation, rolled cookies which can be cut in fancy shapes are perhaps the most popular. One of the newest kitchen gadgets will cut a large number of cookies of a variety of shapes all at the same time. Then there are those German rolling pins with which a design may be pressâ€" ed into the rolled dough. If you wish the dough to roll easily chill it between the mixing and the rolling. Cookies of this sort may be brushed with white of an egg and decorated with nut meats, raisins, candied cherries, powdered sugar or candies before they are baked. They may be frosted, dipped in nuts or decorated after they are baked instead of before, if you like. Frosted cookies however, will not keep indefinitely, as will the plainer cookies, a little in the oven. Their height will depend upon the proportion of sugar and nuts. Then we have the brownies, the date bars. the molasses and chocolate sheet cookies, which are made from batters of cake consistency baked in shallow pans and cut into finger lengths or squares after they are done. greased pan for macaroons and merinâ€" gues, but expsrience has proved to me that there are better results when ary pans are used. Because most cookies the better for agm . you may make your Christâ€" mas cookies as far ahead of time as you like. The cookie press which is sometimes known as spritz, demands a slightly softer dough than does the rolled cookie. ‘The stream dough as it is pressed out will be ridged and Can be spread in rounds or bowknots on the baking sheet. Then there are the wafers which ofâ€" ten have nuts in them. These also are dropped from a teaspoon on to a baking sheet. The plain wafers of the Sweâ€" dish type are often rolled, as soon as baked, around the handle of a wooden spoon or a rolling pin. A German cookie whose name is translated as "shaving" is wrapped in a curl around a stick. Other Dropped Cookies Cookies of the macaroon type are also dropped, but because of the beaten egg whites which are used they wil} rise Austrian Crescents ‘> cup shortening 1 cup flour. ‘+ cup rolled almonds Salt 1 cup sugar 4 egg yolks. White of egg. Mix shortening with sugar, add egg While the recipes which I am giving today demand a definite amount of flour you may find that you need a very little bit more when you come to roll or drop them. Eggs, you see, differ in size and flour does not always have exactly the same thickening quality. If you are going in for a cookie baking on a large scale you will find large baking sheets better than pans, even when you use their backs. It is not generally necessary to grease cookie pans even when there is not shortening in the recipe. There are few exceptions to this rule. Wafers made with brown sugar need pans greased with an unâ€" salted fat. It may surprise you to learn that I recommend the use of an unâ€" yolks, beat well and stir in the flour and salt. Add the almonds, rolled very fine. Chill dough and roll to quarterâ€" inch thickness. Add more flour if neâ€" cessary. Cut with small crescentâ€" shaped cutters. Brush wth egg white, sprinkle with chopped almonds and bake it in a moderate oven until golden brown . Chocolate Walnut Dollars 4 cupful butter. 1 cup sugar 1 egg 2 tablespoons milk. 1 teaspoon vanilla. + cups flour. 1 teaspoon baking powder. s« teaspoon cinnamon. ‘4 cup chopped nuts. 2 squares chocolate. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs slightly beaten. Add milk, vanilla, sifted dry ingredients and walnuts. Add the choscolate melted and form into roll 2 inches in diameter. Chill. Cut in ‘« inch slices. Bake in moderate oven (375 degrees F.) eight to ten minutes. Kut Wafers 2 tablespoons butter. cups brown sugar. 1 egg. 4 tablespoons fiour 1‘ cups chopped nuts. 2 tablespoons water. Cream the butter, add the sugar graâ€" dually, the egg slightly beaten, the nuts mixed with the flour and the water. Drop by teaspoons two incles apart on a baking sheet, greased with unsalted fat or oil. Bake in a slow oven (325 deâ€" 21 t\ "~ is grees F.) seven to ten minutes. Reâ€" move from the oven, cool one minute before taking from the pan. spritz 2% cups sifted cake flour. > teaspoon salt. 1 cup shortening. *4 cup sugar 3 egg yolks. 1 teaspoonful almond extract. Sift the flour with the salf. Cream butter, add sugar slowly and cream toâ€" gether until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks, one at a time. Add fiavourâ€" ing and work in flour into the mixâ€" ture. Pack in a cookie gun, force dough out into greased cookie sheet in various shap>»s, bake in a hot oven (400 degrees F.) ten minutes. Remove from cookie sheet at once and store away in an airtight container. Gev. ura Kuchen 3 cups flour. 1‘% teaspoon ginger. 1‘ teaspoon cinnamon. i teaspoon cloves. % teaspoon soda. 1 teaspoon baking powder. 4 teaspoon salt. ; teaspoon nutmeg. 1 cup dates. cup shortening. 4 cup sugar. 4 cup molasses. 4 cup sour milk. 1 egg. Mix and sift flour, spices soda, baking powder and salt. Mix sliced dates with the fingertips through flour mixture. Cream fat and sugar. Add molasses, sour milk and well beaten egg. Comâ€" bine two mixtures. Roll cookies;on a floured board. Cut with a foured :cutâ€" ter and bake on a well oiled baking sheet or inverted pan in .a moderate oven (375 degrees F.) for twelve or fifteen minutes. 4 teaspoon baking powder. 1 cup nuts. Beat egg slightly and stir in melted butter. Stir in sugar and add water. Beat half a minute; add melted chocoâ€" late. Add nuts, flour, salt and baking powder which have been mixed togethâ€" er and add to first mixture, Bake in greased cake pan twentyâ€"five to thirty minutes in a moderate oven (375 deâ€" grees F.). The Women of the Moose helqd a very successful whist drive on Wednesday, Dec. 18th. The winners were:â€"Ladies, Mrs. I. W. Hunt, Mrs. Ernest Lemieux and Mrs. T. Thomas; men, A. Atkinson, C. A. Gillard. R. Gray and Mrs. Briggs cut for men‘s third prize, Mr. Gray winning. The whist prizes were poultry. Ladies‘ travelling prize was won by Mrs. Jean Dodd. It was donateg by George‘s Beauty Shop. Men‘s travelling prize was won by Mrs. Bredeau, playâ€" ing as gentleman. It was donated by Mrs. N. Everett.. (Copyright, 1935, by The Bell Syndiâ€" cate, Inc.) Whist Drive Winners at Women of the Moose Event The occasional chair, given as door prize, was won by B. Tennyson, ticket No. 51. The conveners of the whist drive were Mrs. W. Carroll and Mrs. Geo. Relanger Mrse Hoh Hardy was the reâ€" freshments convener. There were four egg. cup melted butter. cup granulated sugar or salt cups brown sugar. # tablespoons water. squares chocolate. cup pastry flour. Browni¢s Canada Northern Power Corporation Limited NORTHERN ONTARIO POWER COMPANY, NORTHERN QUEBEC POWER COMFANY, LIMITED For ourselves, we also have a wish. That we may continue to serve you faithfully and well, making life easier by the service we remder. A wish to you, our custCmers! May the Holiâ€" day Season bring you a wealth of joy and good fellowship. May the New Year bring you Health, Happiness and Prosperity in full mcoasure. Home from University and College for the Holidays A large number of Porcupine and disâ€" trict students at colleges and univerâ€" sities in the South returned to their homes for the Christmas vacation this weekâ€"end. Among those from the Uniâ€" versity of Toronto are: Miss Harriet Harkness, Miss Helen Newton, Miss Barbara Campoell, Miss Mary Galâ€" lagher, Fordyce Scott, William Drew, Cyril Reade, Jack Marks, Charles Cushing, Terry Smith, Jack Lake, Cléem Leaman, and Colin Sellars. From Queen‘s University: Miss Marion Osâ€" trosser, Miss Audrey Bourne, Jim Pond, George White, Jim Keeley, Bill Keeley, Alan Longmore, Marcel Everard, Len Travers, Ronald Denny and Clayton Richardson. From McGill University: Clare Halperin. Western University: Mary Baderski; Ontario Agricultural College: Walter Craig and Jack Gauâ€" thier. Ontario College of Education: Miss Key Gallagred, Doug Carriere. Upper Canada College: Gordon Denny and Billy Minthorn. Branxom Hall: Miss Mary Porter and Miss Betty Osâ€" trosser. North Bay Normal School: Miss Louis Abraham, Miss Rita Forbes and Misses King. From other schools: the Misses Margaret and Gertrude Burke, from Loretta Abbsy; Donald Blackman from Albert College; Miss Doris Cooke from Shaw Business Schools; Miss Ruth Curtis, James Curtis and the Belec brothers. ' M.C.‘sâ€"Mrs. W. Carroll, Mrs. Geo. B:â€" langer, Bert Odgers and Mr. Partridge The fruit cake, on which weight guesses were sold, will be awarded to the winner at the next whist drive held by the Women of the Moose. Little Miss Helen spinks drew the winning ticket for the chair. B «Jns ‘..Q. se # # * * ow w# t *# *# t# # ## t# *# ## estes # # *# # ## ## t " d #*# w # ## # ‘. *# . * 0. .“ # # #* # .” t# .0. # '0. w _# ./‘.. h. J +# 0..0. .O .00 tu .t . .# . * .00.“.0.. t # t# _ ## i. . t % .”.00 Controlling and Operating Beason s Creectings 17 Pine Street North To Perplexed People The basin of this new sink has a larger capacity and is equipâ€" ped with the new CRUMCUP sink strainer. The drainboard too, is overâ€"sized and has the drain grooves close together so that the smallest glass will not upset. The cabinelt is of steel with lustrous enamel stainâ€"resisting surface. Every woman will appreâ€" ciate this modern addition to her kitchen,. Christmas would be a good time to make the change, If your gifts must be gosd, and your budget misbehaves, there‘s a real nged for our solution! We‘a suggest, for women, a smart new compact from $1.00 up, a piecse Of 20sâ€" tume jewelry from $1.00 or a bag as Jow as $1.25.. For men, jewelry as little as 25¢ will buy collar pins and clasps for ties, brush and comb sets from $4.00, and silver cocktail shakâ€" ers from $5.95. If your parâ€" ticular problem involves . a home, we‘ll show you a hos! of suggestions up from $1.00. In any case, we advise C. A. Remus Phone 327 Remus‘ Problem to Bring Your Phone 190