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Porcupine Advance, 23 Apr 1936, 2, p. 8

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Gpen night at the A. S. Timmins ten years ago was best dances of the season. own orchestra provided the A large number of friends dropz;ed in on Mr. and Mrs. M. Greer one evening in April of 1926. In recognition of Mr. Greer‘s work as a police officer in the camp for 10 years, the membsers of the town and provincial forces pressntsd him with a gold watch. iWA Up) AIGUILL ELA,IC Y dAillU QVCL| cage COUidGd not the ’FJS".‘OH of sergceant in the local‘not get unde force. | through any of The El Shadi Bible Class was an acâ€"| reported. tive organization in the Uniteti church! "When the r ten years ago. They had just given| Cochrane is i their third annual banquet, with the| Harry Preston usual toasts, musical programme and‘ vance ten year: social evening. Roy Dunbar was presiâ€"| the States will dent of the class in 1926 and Rev. J. D.| is still waiting Farks was m‘nister of the church. m proper shap GCGpen night at the A. S. D. club m ‘bed would always Timmins ten years ago was one of the road, said Mr. Pr best dances of the season. The club‘s) very valuable to own orchestra provided the music. way . Timmins‘ "bribery and corruptiion" "I did not know case of ten years ago, in which it was a criminal," said Sergennt Tascoe, R. C. M. P.. of Haileybury, was appsinted Chief of Police in Timmins ten years ago followâ€" ing the resignation from the force of Chief M. Greer. Pearce, also Mountie, was to accompany the new chief up from Halleybury and take over the position of sergeant in the local force. There was "general elation" in Iroâ€" quois Falls ten years ago this week as the Abitibi mill eclipsed its former high produciion record for 24 hours run. On Tuesday, April 20th. the plant turned out 151‘%4 tons of newsprint. There were congratulations all around. 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Originality, neatness and advertising value will be taken into consideraâ€" tion by the judges awarding the prizes. 4. The judges‘ decision is final and the Company will not enter into any correspondâ€" ence regarding the contest, Winners‘ names will be published in the newspapers on or about Tuesday, May 12th, 1936, 5. All entries become the property of Thomas J. Lipton Ltd. 6. This contest is open to all residents of Ontario, with the exception of employees of Thomas J,. Ltd., and their agents or 1. Write or print what you think the best answer is, in not more than 15 words on an entry blank obtainable from your grocer, or on the blank cardboard at either end of a package of 1A J)ton a Tea, Be sure to write your name and address plainly ; also the name and address of the grocer from whom the tea w as purchased 2. Send in as many different answoers as you wish, but each one must be accompanied by the end ’Panel (or faceimile) of a package of Iipton‘s Tea, carrying the T homas J. Lipton" signature. Mail your entries to Contest Dept., Thomas J. Lipton Ltd., 43 Front 8St. E., Toronto, to reach this office on or before 6 p.., r families READ THESE CONTEST RULES CAREFULLY ten years ago. "He gave me lots of money but I thought he made it selling whiskey." That was in the days when "tenperance acts" were in vogue all \ over this continent and crime appéearâ€" ; ed to be on the increase. The Advance !gave warning as to what the ultimate result might be. "If a law is unfair, unjust or unfair <(and the Onm‘ario \ Temperance Act appears to be all of these) the proper procedure is to repeal the lawâ€"not scorn it . . . Neither the 'pecple nor the judges, magistrates, or ; police have the right to pick and choose in regard to the l@ws that should be | enforced. That way lies chaos! . . . No section of the O. T. A. should be broken. The whole thing should be smashed." | The new provincial riding of Cochâ€" rane north was outlined in The Adâ€" vance of ten years ago. Timmins, inâ€" stead of being in Cochrane riding was in Cochrane south, The new division began at the Quebecâ€"Ontario koundary near Lake Abitibi and went nearly due one then in use. Other news from South End of those days included that of the "lowest type of thief," the man who stole a shrub from a grave of a South Porcupine lad who had died the year before. His mother was a hard working Finnish woman who had tended the shrub carefully in the house until it was ready to set out the preâ€" vious summer. Someone dug it out of the grave. The death of fiveâ€"yearâ€"old son of Mr. ang Mrs, Fred Ladouceur, cccurred in Timmins ten years ago. Reâ€" latives from Sudbury attended the funeral. smashed." Locais in The Advance of South TForcupine had high hopes of| ago included: "Rev. Fr. The the Paymaster mine ten years ago. A, turned this week from a visit 125â€"ton mill had been installed and|treal." "Mr. and Mrs. Henry was turning over smoothly. There were|of Ottawa, were Timmins vis sixty men employed on the surface and| week." "Bornâ€"In T.mmins, thirty underground at the time. Founâ€"| day, April 18th, to Mr. and M dations were going in for a new ho‘st| Adams, 107 Birch strset nort having a much larger capacity than the: (Charles Sameul)" "Man South TForcupine had high hopes of the Paymaster mine ten years ago. A 125â€"ton mill had been installed and was turning over smoothly. There were THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS oxTARIO W. T. Sampson of the Hollinger was ’Icaving Timmins ten years ago to take a position with the Argonaut mine |near Dane. Mr. Sampson had been | here in 1913 and there was general reâ€" | gret at his decision to leave. i "The industrial life of Ontario is Will you join us in a mass | delegation to Ottawa to protest against tariff changes," read a telegram reâ€" 'ceived by Mayor E. G. Dickson ten |yeoar sago. Three hundred Ontar‘o mayors were to gather in Ottawa, acâ€" ! The Salvation Armiy‘s Self Denial fund was doing well ten years ago this | week. Adjutant Crowe, then in charge of the citadel here, stated that suhbâ€" scriptions were coming in well. Barber shops in Timmins were to close at. seven o‘clock every ordinary business day, according to a byâ€"law ]passed ty the T‘mmins town council ten years ago. On Saturdays and the levenings before holidays, they were to |:close at ten o‘clock. The Master Barâ€" bers of Timmins, including every shop, lasked that the law be placed cn the | Dooks. I 4 Among the business dealt with at a . council meeting ten years ago was that. Iof a petition from the majority of garâ€" ’age owners of the town. They had | cl asked that Sunday repairs be made! illegal, but the council modified this to saying that repairs could not be mad> to trucks or delivery rigs on Sunday. Mecessary repairs could be made to priâ€" vate motor vehicles. The public libâ€" rary was voted $5,000 to carry on the year‘s work, after some discussion.| . John Dalton pointed out that trees had L grown up near the railway crossing in $] the district and were making it hard to| see approaching trains. He asked that|‘‘ the council write to the township of| °© Tisdale asking that the trets be cut down. As long ago as that, somebody| !" had suggested that the town should build a public lavatory. The question| 4 was referred to the board of works. |B2 The Timmins Baseball club met in 82 the fire hall in April of 1926, with E. B. Patterson, president in 1925 in the| th chair. It was suggested that Kirkland| C Lake, TIroquosis Falls, Cochrane and, C Timmins might make up the league. H. W. Hooker was president for ca with W. O. Langdon viceâ€"president. Mrs. Garfield Heggart, of Timmins, fo died in the Red Cross hospital in Haiâ€" a leybury in April of 1926 following an}St cperation. The funeral was held in of Haileybury. gy ai th C1 «t % J day, April 18th, to Mr. and Mrs. F. S yrejock, Adams, 107 Birch street nortAâ€"a son' "At th (Charles Sameul)" ‘"Many friend.sfbeverage will regret to learn of the illness of he sober Miss Morris, daughter of Mr. Morris,| "He w ‘oaretaker of the Central Fublic School.| Fo Miss Morris is undergoing treatment at Four |the Providence hospital and all w“,l'lin the | wish her complete and early recovery"| . ......., Three thousand claims had beon staked in the Red Lake area up to the string of 1926, it was reporied in The Advance of ten years ago. A moveâ€" ment was on foot to have the recerding office removed from Red Lake to S‘oux Lookout, since Red Lake was no longer in ithe centre of the staking rush. Greenhorns were again warned by the government to be wary of the trail to the new gold camp. It was a holiday for the old timers, it was stated, but those inexperienced in the bush were advised to be very cartful. It was nc always possible to get food even at Hudson, the jumping off placs on the C. N. R. and it was a long trail in to Red Lake from there. common strife for mild concsasns of| "I‘m everyday life, a constant influence, a Kester peculiar grace." He was speaking for| "I‘m the formation of the Canadian Legion , crown. of the British Empire Service League.| "We which was to take over all the veterans‘| you kr associations in Canadi at that time.| " c ‘The idea of the Legion was being favyâ€"| "wWh ourably reseived,. and so far as the| "Jus North was concerned, it was "going| That | over." To 4e cording to a plan formulated in Oshawa to protest to the government against lower tariffs. "Mr. John Magnan has joined the s ‘aff | Ne Nnald nad some beer?‘ of the Bank of Nova Ecot‘a here, comâ€"| °K°4 his worship, mencing his duties last week. He wm reside with his aunt, Mrs. M. O‘Neill." ‘"Rev. M. R. Hall, pastor of the Timmins Baptist church, left yesâ€"| °4 Ais terday for Toronto to attend the Bapâ€" tist Bible Union Convention being held in the city April 22n2d to 24th, at the Jdarvis street Bap‘st church." "A young lady organizer for the Toronto Motor Leagus was in town this week se:uring members for the Ontario Moâ€" tor League and apparently met with good success. I% is probable that a mecting for a branch here will be called when a good membership is secured."| ‘"Some of the Southern Ontario daily newspapers recently have published "NOo."‘ *‘‘This man Aho must have bsen atâ€" 'txactinrr a lot of attention," commentâ€" worship. watching him." Three cthers, Dolahan, Thilet and Gloster had also been watching Aho and they thought he was sober. Dr. Irvinse testified that he was treatâ€" ing Aho for a leg injury received on February lst. He still has a limp. In summing up his case, Mr. Kester cbjecteq to the evidence of Deputy Chief Salley. The crown objected to the manner in which Munro had given evidence. "I don‘t like the way either of them "Everybody‘s been the statement that the biz circus conâ€" !mwe their evidence,‘ said his worship. cerns have agreed among themselves to| discontinue all street parads. "The whole thing is, they saw this man Doing] fa‘lling around on the streets. I don‘t away with the circus parads would be| believe at all that either of them asked doing away one of the biggest joys of| for a doctor. What sticks me about this youth, and never again would the proâ€" verbial Scotsman be able to see a cirâ€" cus." "The height of meanness is 1e-| pornted ky the St. Mary‘s Journalâ€"Argus that paper telling of a Toronto man case was how all these men watched him so carefully from the time he went in till he came out. I findgd him guilty and fine him $10 and costs. Munro Caszse Dronned that paper telling of a Toronto man who never kissed his wife for ten years and then beat up another man who did" west to the boundary of Cochrane disâ€" trict including all the James Bay area. It was up to the returned soldier. Oapt. Geo. E. Cole told the Great War Vetsrans‘ Association in Haileybury on Vimy night ten vears ago to exercise the "Power to shield around him in the common strife for mild of evervday life, a constant influence., a mnecVv. rr. reâ€" is week from a visit Monâ€" Mr. and Mrs. Henry Murray, i, were Timmins visitors last Bornâ€"In T.mmins, on Sunâ€" ‘s Self Denial i years ago this then in charge ated that sthâ€" ten years riault reâ€" l He was fined $20 and costs and was told to pay $20 qamages. Mysterious Assault Jack Cochrane had bseen attacked while walking down the street one day, he told the court, by a man who said something about ‘"You blamed my sisâ€" ter for stealing a watch." He thought the men were two who were charged with assault. Both men claimed to have been in | seized by police. Three of them, two men and a woman, lived in a room on Third avenue, it was stated. Police could only see one bed, but a witness claimed there was also a day bed. Seven young men pleadeg guilty to disorderly conduct on the streets and were fined $5.00 and costs each. Four firstâ€"offence drunks were fined the usual $10 and costs with the option ocf 30 days in jail. Reckless Drivers Fined Tony Delmonte, Leslie Burnley, Bill Latour and John Evanoff each paid $10 and costs for reckless driving. Two motorists paid $1.00 and costs for parkâ€" ing offences, while one paid $10 and costs for having defective brakes and another paid the same sum for not hayâ€" ing a driver‘s license. Fred Ellsworth, vagrant, was given a week to move on. He is heading for Blind River and Sault Ste. Marie, he Both men claimed to have been in other places at the time of the assault and neither hag a sister who had been mixed up in a watch theft, they said. The case was dismissed. A charge of having liquor in his posâ€" session not purchased on his individual permit against Roger Hebert was disâ€" missed when Oscar Beaudoin came forâ€" ward to claim the bottle that had been "I doubt the opportunity of the barâ€" tender to observe the man, if he conâ€" ducted himself properly in the beverâ€" age room," the magistrate agreed. The chargs was dismissed. Angryâ€"Tears Wires From House He had torn the electric light wires cut of Mrs. D. Morgan‘s house at the rear of 41 Commercial avenue, D. Seguin admitted in court when he was charged with doing wilful damage. seguin had rented , the little place and one evening the lights had gone out. He had complained to his landâ€" lady and she had qiscovered that a fuse had been burned out and she had none with which to replace it. At this Seâ€" guin flew into a rage and tore out the wiring. * "The whole thing is, they saw this man fa‘ling around on the streets. I don‘t believe at all that either of them asked for a doctor. What sticks me about this case was how all these men watched him so carefully from the time he went in till he came out. I findgd him guilty and fine him $10 and costs. Munro Case Dropped Later on, Mr. Caldbick said that there was no evidence against Munro other than that given. Mr. Kester agreed to let the Aho case evidence stand in the Munroâ€" case of supplying to an inâ€" toxicated perschM. "I think the evidence in the Munro case is not sufficient to warrant a conâ€" viction against Munro," saiq the crown attorney. C Iwill." "I think he was pretty sober," said Chas. Scott. "He‘q probably had two glasses of beer." "You know he had two glasses of beer just by looking at him?" "Yes," ‘"You know he had had some beer?" asked his worship. "NO,* *"*This man Aho must have bsen atâ€" tracting a lot of attention," commentâ€" ed his worship. "Everybody‘s been watching him." Three cthers, Dolahan, Thijet Gloster had also been watching and they thought he was sober. Gloster had also been watching Aho and they thought he was sober. Dr. Irvine testified that he was treatâ€" ing Aho for a leg injury received on February lst. He still has a limp. In summing up his case, Mr. Kester cbjecteq to the evidence of Deputy Chief Salley. The crown objected to the manner "He was sober." Four Men Swear Aho sSober Four other men, all of whom were in the International when Aho was arrested, swore the man appeared sober. Some of them recounted almost every action Aho made in the place from the time he entered until the police arrestâ€" ed him. "Will you swear that he was not drunk," N. Castonguy was asked. a t Dr. Matheson had arrived avout one o‘clock, witness said. "At the time you served Aho in the beverage room, was he drunk or was "Well IT‘ll put it this way. you know how a doctor got there? "I called him?" replied Munro "When?" "Just after I was released on â€" That was when Mr. Salley told m I was half as good a barterder ; Attempted Robbery Dismissed Tuesday 1€ Under the Parent‘s Maintenance Act, ur brothers were ordereg to pay $5.00 month toward keeping their mother. ie had asked $10 monthly from each them, but two had refused, on the ounds that they could not afford it. A bench warrant ha; e arrest of Gilbert arged with assaultit oyer it‘ i1f (Continued from Pags One) awful." said his worship n surprised at you," replied d me Ol rant has been issued Gilbert Sullivan who T was released on bail. _ Mr. Salley told me if good a bartenrnder as I advice 1‘q keep my emâ€" lot of trouble. I asked r had been called and t that had been looked Amos Pette "This is the first time I‘ve ever heard of one in a Nova Scotia gold mine. The trouble is this mine has seen abandoned again and again. At .one time it was full of water for 50 years I think. Every once in a while somebody would get intérested in it and they‘d dewater. Then they‘d take out some ore on one of the levels just to show what there was. But there was no systematic minâ€" ing. Maybe they were a little too "Oh, no, not by any means. The rock is solid slate and the gold comes from beautiful white quartz veins. It‘s easy milling stuff and the golg just stands out of the quartz in chunks. One of the big troubles they used to have there was from the men making tiepins and so on of the gold." "Are they troubled much with caveâ€" sground long, what it was changes since become even the yvears." As nearly svery man, woman and child in the Porcupine waited eagerly for news from Moose River, Nova Scoâ€" tia, this week; waited for word of Dr. R. E. Robertson and Alfred Scadding, the two men in their living tomb; waitâ€" ed for word from Bill HMHannigan, Sinâ€" clair McMillan, George Mitchell and Elmer Moran, the four men of the Mcâ€" Intyre rescue squag who were rushed to Nova Scctia; miners in Timmins, sSchumacher â€" and South Porcupine talked in groups, trying to get a clear picture of the situation. Most of them failed to see the situaâ€" tion as it actually was. No newspaper, no radio broadcast, answered the quesâ€" tions they asked aloud of ons anâ€" cther. On Tuesday morning it was discovâ€" ered that there was a commercial traâ€" veller in town who hag once been inâ€" terested in the Moose River mine. He had been underground, The Advance learned, some years before, in the very mine which brought so much suspense to a whole nation. It wa reporter with the ide the Moose R Visitor in Town Tells of the Moose River Mine Commercial Man Explains Much in Regard to Nova Scotia Mine Caveâ€"in that has Puzzled Miners Here Listening to Radio Accounts of Progress of Rescue Work. P stP P P AP P PA A LA AL P AP P P AL LA L L AL L PA P P P â€"AC P L P L C L L P P P ul P P t PP P PAE THIS ENTITLES CONTESTANT TO 2,500 VOTES for the Schumacher Lions Carnival and Street Dance, June 23rd. To J. A. HAWKINS, Box 93, Schumacher, Ont. HILLâ€"CLARKâ€"FRANCIS Ltd. Timmins . .. ..with a reputation HIGH QUALITY Underground in 1915 s in 1915, he told an Advance , that he had meen approached e idea of taking an interest in Schumacher Lions Carnival Queen Contest TlV €r mine. "I wasn‘t underâ€" but long enough to see like. There have been then but perhaps it has more dangerous through (Contestant‘s Name) morning it was discovyâ€" was a commercial traâ€" who hagq once been inâ€" Moose River mine. He ound loose (Town) General Contractors (Your Name) he for the WasSs When Miss Sigma Hagglund and Norman Somerville came up before Magistrate McKessock at Sudjury last wsek on charges of manslaughter in connection with the death of Gertrude Weatherall, of Creemore, aged 16, the cases were remanded to April 28th, The crown attorney asked for the remand to gather further details in the case and also to secure official report of the inquest held on the girl. The girl died in Collingwood hospital from the alleged effects of an illegal operation said to have been performed at Sudâ€" bury., Be‘ore she died the girl made a statement that implicated Miss Haggâ€" lund, Somerville and another young man, Russell Henderson. The three were arrested, Henderson committing suicide by hanging himself with his belt in the cell at Barrie jail where he was being held. Barrie Examinecr: The Best Music the laughter of an innocent child., Charges of Manslaughter Again Remanded at Sudbury He thought, the traveller said, that the new shaft was the only hope of rescuing the men. The old shafts might not come anywhere near the place where the men were trapped, but the new one, bgun since the accident, woulg be sure to hit the level in the right place. ‘The situation in the old shafts was that they were not now properly supâ€" ported, he understood. Through weathâ€" ering and cutting, they had begun to fall in, little by little, and in places where ore had been taken out, protecâ€" tion had not been given against colâ€" lapse of nearby rock. Had the mine timbers been replaced as dewatering went on, the Nova Scotian said the place would be just as safe as any "hard rcck" mine. greedy Not Inspected Before Accident "Mike Dwyer, the minister of mines, was on his way to Moose River befors the caveâ€"in happened. He arriveqg on Monday, just afterwards. If he‘d got there first, chances are he wouldn‘t have let anything ‘be done with the mine until the shaft was put in proper condition." of (Contestant‘s Signature) DAY., APRIL 23RD, 1936 as Carnival Queen (Slreet) Phone 126 nomimatle

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