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Porcupine Advance, 4 Nov 1940, 1, p. 6

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hall being ing. music of IA hiz augumented orches and commented upon smooth. The young c numbers for this affair, "regular" oldâ€"timers‘ South Porcupine, Nov. 2â€"(Special t The Advance)â€"The annual Firemert Hallowe‘en dance at the arena wa held on Thursday night. It proved t South Porcupine People | Enjoy Hallowe‘en Dance By Their Fire Fighters Annual Event Proves Happy Success. Many Interesting and Original Costumes. â€" Young People Celebrated Halâ€" loween. â€" Other News of South Porcupine and +h Dome Afternoons â€" 2 to 4 p.m. Admission â€" 15¢ Evenings â€" 8 to 10 p.m. Admission â€" 25¢ Adults 580¢ Children 15¢ PORCUPINE AREN A Thursday, Nov. Public S‘\iltlng I)aily A, W. PICKERING, 5i Toke Street _ J. M. LOIRZRAIN, 153!; Pine St. N. the bills. Dome Porkies 8.15° p.m. Atlantic City Sea Gulls ’ w # HEAD OFFICE Association © It is your pay envelope when you get too old to workâ€"yours to spend in the freedom of retirement. A Confederation Life Policy will provide for your familyâ€"and when your children are grown up, it will provide for you. It is a pay envelope for your wife and children in the event of your death. When a Confederation Life represenjative calls upon you, consult him. He is trained to advise you. onfederation Life V DMISS%ION r war bonds ($5) . ana . _ V. McGuey and partâ€" Emdin, as "Swingâ€"tim>: â€"bath comic castumes. s full evening dress is a darkie) white with lal suczsess, the l2tge rtably for danâ€"â€" of Touis Truant and TVMMINS REPRESENTATIVE bein il1 over. h white 1e black en jo N1 Rev. J. A. Lyvttle officiated at a house wedding on O:ctober 3l1st at 131 Rae avenue, when Mrs. Ida Maie Ladd beâ€" came the wife of Mr. Edward James Rhamey. The bride was becomingly in navy sheer with white acâ€" coassories, wearing talisman _ rOSses. Witnesses of the marriage were Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Roberts, the latter wearing black creps with a corsage of red roses. A reception followed at the home of the bride, where Mr. and Mrs. Rhamey will in future reside. The Sunday school Teachers‘ weekly meeting class (United Chunch) was held on Friday at the home of Mr. Mrs, W. 8 Blake was in Toronto over the weekâ€"end on business. Lieut. B. L F. Breakey, of the Royal Montreal Light Infantry, from Camp Borden, is vis‘ting camp along with several other soldiers home on Jleave, who cams up together in truck loads on Friday evening. The Rebekahs held a social after their regular business session on Friâ€" day. At bridge, Mrs. Libby, Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Robinson won the prizes. The Kiwanis Club met on Thursday as usual and dissussed business. No special speaker was brought in for the meeting. Next week election of offiâ€" cers will take place. City, who conduct dances during the summer, the Legion do not start their weekly dances until the end of the season for the Golden City hall. Mrs. Shipway (nee Elsie Rumble), her son and her father, of Matheson, are moving back this week into their old home in Pottsville. Dances, weekly, commence in the Lezion hall next Friday. By courtesy of the Edgewater Pavilion in Golden Mr, and Mrs. Buck Thomas are moyâ€" ing from town to take up residence at Dome Extension. girl fully deserved first prize as fancy dressed lady, and Mr. John as an oldâ€"fashioned lady, was applauded as he took first honours in the men‘s Lancy dress class. Mr.â€"Terry Wilson is spending the wrekâ€"end with his mother in town, from Haileybury. ,' Business administration subjects sovâ€" \ er accounting, switchboard operation, Comptometry and all secretarial work. Applicants for the course must pay for their own uniforms, and, because ‘the service is voluntary, officers and | privates will dress alike. The uniform . consists of a practical office grey ser‘ge skirt, pale grey broadcloth shirt with dark green tie, grey tunic with the \Red Cross insignia, grey felt stroller hat with badge, brown gloves and lowâ€" heeled shoes. The whole outfit costs about $30.00. ’ Special University Detachments arei | being established to provide students! with the baskground training preparaâ€" ; tory to taking the Red Crogs Office , !Administration Service training. Enâ€" has been taking place at the‘ \ University of Toronto for several days. The Toronto University girls will wear| \ a grey wedge cap, oneâ€"piece grey dress | with military pockets and tie in their College colour. I | "The Office Administration Service ; ihas been formed in preparation for a , | demand for trained office workers," Mrs. Plumptre said, "It is also the anâ€" | swer to the plea of hundreds of busiâ€" , ness girls that there is no place for â€" | them in war service." | Opportunity_ for â€" Business to Join. Don Crozier, and Sunday School teachâ€" ers from the Dome were also present. The occas"cn was marked by the preâ€" sentation of gifts to two teachers who |have recently been marriedâ€"Mrs. Ed. FPinan, Anna Macdonald, and Mrs. ! E. T. Power, nee Betty Mitchell. Mrs. Finan was presented with a very nice tea pot; and Mrs,. Powser with cups and saucers as wedding gifts from the comâ€" bined class. Mr. Crozier presented the gifts with the good wishes of all presâ€" ] ent.: Red Cross Office \ Administration Service Mrs. C. Errington Chrisitie, expéeriâ€" enced voluntary Red Cross worker, has been appointed National Commandant of the Office Administration Service. The Office Administration Service is purely voluntary and those accepted for the course will be trained first for Red Cross work and secondly in preâ€" paration for military or other public j service. Women between the ages of 18 and 45 years will be considered, alâ€"‘ though a hizher age limit is permitted in cases of applicants with special qualifications. _ They must have two. personal character references and a medical certificate from a doctor apâ€", proved by the Red Cross. _ Although the drill will not be as strenuous as that prescribed for the Transport Ser-‘ vice, those aczepted for the course will have to take physical training as well as such subjects as despatch and reâ€" | portâ€"writing, King‘s Regulations and | Orders, Military Law, business admin-i "some fellow just phoned he can‘t live without me!" gasped the doctor, reaching for his hat. His daughter breathed a sigh of reâ€" lief. "Just a moment," she said quietly, "I think that call was for me."â€"Nugâ€" get. Toronto, Oct. 30â€"An opportunity for business girls to join the ranks of woâ€"| men volunteering for warâ€"service trainâ€"| ing is given in the Red Cross Offic»e Administration â€" Service, formation of which was announced yesterday. This service is another section of the Canaâ€" dian Red Cross Women‘s Voluntary | Service Corps, of whicth Mrs. H. P.{ Plumptre is National Commandant. The transport Service, the first secâ€" tion to be established, has been operatâ€" ing successfully for several weeks and hundreds of khakiâ€"uniformed women drivers in various parts of the country are taking the intensive course of study. A third section, the Nursing Auxiliary, is in of formation and details will be announced shortly. his study. "Get my bag at once!" he shouted. "Why dad," asked his daughter "what‘s the matter?" Sense and Nonsense: There is noâ€" thing which will make a shoe pinch quicker then for a man to have to foot Jolhin Michael of namilton, Ont. beâ€" lieves his striking resemblance to Hitler may help finance the downâ€" fall of the Nazi Fuehrer. If cither of two overtur>s from movie corâ€" porations reach the contract stag>s heâ€" will contribute ~every e2nt of salary above exp:nses to the Red Cross. He is known as "Adolf" or "Puelusr‘ in the cafe where h is asscciated with her brotherâ€"inâ€"law, and patrons clamor to have him "comb his hair down." The Sudbury doctor rushed out of ration, military deportment, and so Face His Fortune Wrong Number THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TTIMMINS, ONTARIO . 4444 ’§' Dropped Between Stitches Toâ€"day‘s paper lcarries the work scheduwle for the Red Cross rooms in the Bardessono home . .. and a special appeal is made for more machines to aid in this work . . . if you have a sewâ€" ing machine that you could donate why not do your bit by sending it to the Red Cross rooms at once . . . and, of cours2, your help is needed in knitâ€" ting and sewing, too, so remember . . . this is YOUR war, and you can help vyour country to victory. wedding of interest here, on Saturday . as well as other weddings of inâ€" terest throughout the week. Included in the costumes, however, were cour friend from the barnyard . . . the hen . . . bellâ€"hops, arcrobatic perâ€" formers, tramps . . . and of course, the everâ€"popular clown . . . some of the false faces were enough to frighten even the courageous person . .. if they had been encountered without warning. The social "roundâ€"up" for the week includes":. . .. ... two whist drives on Tuesday, as well as a club meeting . . . three club meetings on Wednesâ€" day eveninig . .. a club meeting on Thursday . .. the Ski Club dance on Friday evening . .. an outâ€"ofâ€"town were .: . . by the way, let‘s call the litâ€" tla lad "Jackie" . .. it‘s really ~his name . . . Jackie‘s mother would acâ€" company him to each door in the buildâ€" ing, and then, on his own, J ackie would grope his way around the neighbouring apartments. One of the most amusing incidents of the Hallowe‘en evening took place in a local apartment house . .. a litâ€" tle lad. about four years old, was dressâ€" ed up in hisgs mother‘s old frock, his father‘s large hat, and a huge mask which not only covered his little face, but in whitch the eyes did not seem to come to the place where the lad‘s eyes were .. . by the way, let‘s call the litâ€" ts lad "Jackic‘" . .. it‘s really ~his Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Borilko, whose marriage was a lovely event yesterday . . . the bride was forâ€" merly Miss Irene Klime and the couple will reside in Timmins . ... to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baker (nee Bernice Burton, whose marriage took place at the United Church on Saturday . . . to Mr. and Hector Beauchamp, this mornin®‘s bride and groom. r///IIIII/I/IIII’////III/I/f/l//”fiflf’?’fi?f#fflg/lfill uuy <g “ y % *4 * Commandizrs officer of the "Eagle Squadron",~ nsw R. A. F. fighter squadron composed exclusively of pilots from the United States, is Squadron Leadeéer W. A. G. Taylor of New York. A volunteer since the outbreak of war, he was formerly in the US. naval air corps. Here he wears both RAF. and "Eagle" badges. The tickets sold by the 106th Guide Company for their annual afternoon tea on Saturday, which proved a great success, were novel . . printed on yellow paper, the tickets were in the shape of a pumpkin . . . the girls made their own tickets, and are to be comâ€" plimented on the fine "job." Putting his heart and soul into the song, Master Calvin Craig told the large gathering at the Legion hall on Thursday evening An assortment of humorous and original costumes added to the gaisty at the Firemen‘s anâ€" nual Hallowe‘esn dance on Thursâ€" day evening . . . no prizes were awarded, as most of thaose attendâ€" ing the dance were attired in simple informal wear and the ccmmittee in charge felt that prizes should be awarded in a manner whicsh gave everyone an opportunity to win. f "I Am a Canadian‘" is doubly proud of t Many private parties were held on Hallowe‘en evening, while the Rebekah Lodge, the Ladies‘ Auxâ€" Hliary of the Canadian Legion, ani the nurses at St. Mary‘s Hospital. enjoyed club events . . . One lccal housewife distributed two and half boxes of apples and several pounds of candy kisses to the little strangers who knocked at her door between the hours of six and nine. Procceding to make his request for Hallowe‘en apples, he would proudly tell his name . . . and as his request was granted, off would come the large mask . . . so that Jackie could see what had been added to those in his bastet . ... and perhaps taste it, too. Leads U.S. "Eagle fa alvin / An event of interest in Timmins to take place in Toronto is the reception to be held in the beautiful new salon of Helena Rubinstein, on November the fcurteenth .. . the event will be under the distinguished patronage of Mrs. E. S. Duggan, Municipal Chapter of Torâ€" onto, the I. 0. D.â€"E. .: . four. of the city‘s most proeminent chapters, includâ€" ing the Lady Tweedsmuir, the Lady Elizabsth Bowesâ€"Lyon, the Dr. Harold C. Parsons and the Forest Hill Villagso are joining forces to act as patrone‘,â€" Emile Bourgeois, Rouyn plumber, {faces a rather unusual chargeâ€"at least for this North Land. He is on $1,000 bail on the charge of making metal slugs to resemble fiveâ€"cent coins. It is said that the slugs were used in slot machines in Rouyn and district. The cwner of a number of automatizc phonoâ€" graph devices in Rouyn reported to the police that he had found "eight to ten dollars worth" of these hogus coins in a single day in collecting from his machines. The police took up the matâ€" ter and sjon had Bourgeois under susâ€" picion. Three hundred and ten of the slugs have been recovered from the machin>s. The police state that simiâ€" lar slugs were found in Bourgeois‘ roocm. In his room the police also claim to have found a quantity of type metal from which the slugs were apâ€" parently made. The accused man was brcuzht before the court at Rouyn and was remanded on $1,000 propeXty Sail for trial on Nov. 5th. os for the reception . . this event on Thursday "Get me out of here! Pull me up!" His colleagues hauled him up in reâ€" cord time and ran for shelter. The man, however, remained at the edge of the crater, pointed downward and exâ€" claimed: ‘"Look at the big rat down there!"â€"The Newspaper PM ' Ci.arsred With Hlegal Making of Metal Siugs A member of a London bombâ€"disposâ€" al squad, lowered carefully into the crater of an unexploded German bomb sat down calmly on the bomb and beâ€" gan removing its fuse Suddenly he velled : We wish to exterd our sympâ€" athies to Mrs. A. J. Shragge, who was bereaved by the death of her sister, Mrs. A. J. Freiman of Otâ€" tawa . . Mrs. Freiman had not ksen in good health for some time, but had carrizd on her ardâ€" uous duties a@‘s president of the Canadian â€" Hadassah â€" Cihapter, and even directed arrangements for work from her sickbed . . . the Hadassah Chapter and all Canada has lost a valued citizen and friend. father being with the forces overâ€" seas at present. It‘s All in Your Point of View 10 15â€"B Pine Street South NICE SEI ECTION OF QUALITY LADES‘ WEAR LINGERIEâ€"HOSIERY and ALL ACCESSOREIES PORCELAIN _ OLD PEWTER CHINA â€" e LAMPS PATINTINGS # CURIOS â€"ORIGINAL GIFT SELECTIONS STOCKâ€"REDUCING SA LL, p T L J _ 2R from Qur Complete Selechon The Alysia Shop to 50% REDUCTIONS More news of Funeral Toâ€"day of _ S the Late Mrs G. Allen Qouth Porcupine Kiwanis Visit Kirkland Lake Club From the Kiwanis Bulleétin:â€""A flyâ€" ing squadron frem our clubâ€"ambassaâ€" dars wf goodwillâ€"Iv#sited ‘the =â€" land Lake Club on Wednesday of iast week. They received a hearty welcome and enjoyed the hospitality and »nâ€" tertainment provided. _ The superb pictures shown by Len Hunter of Otâ€" tawa, were most artistic, a timely regal delight in their sphere, portraying in vivid likenes; the natural glouries of our country, whether seen in the winter or summer time. The evoning conâ€" cluded with aâ€"visit to the home of Lieut.â€"Col: Gerry OMeara. There the yracous courtesies of our genial host and â€" hostess were enjoyed to the full. South Porsupine, Nov 2nd. Special to The Advance. The whist drive sponsored by the ladâ€" tes of the Lezion, held on Monday in tre Legi(fix hall was another success. First prizeâ€"winner for ladies was Mrs. F®. Laforest who won six sherbetâ€"glassâ€" e: secsond prize went to Mrs. J. Johnston. Six cocktail glasses. First prize for men was won by Mrs. A. Telâ€" fordâ€"pair of kid gloves; and secondâ€"a billfodâ€"went to Mr. H. Richmond. ~Funeral® setrvicesâ€"will < be held this (Monday) afternoon at 4 o‘clock, for the late (Mrts. Bessie Allen, Wife of Frivate George Allen, who died at St. Mary‘s Hospital, on November <1st, after an ilness of some months. Serâ€" will be conducted by the Rev. Canon R. S. Cushing, at Walker‘s FPunâ€" eral Home. South Porcupine, Oct. 2nd. Special to The Advancse. The late Mrs. Allen was born in Engâ€" land and wasâ€"fortyâ€"nine years old. She had ‘been resident in Timmins, at 67 Bannerman avenue, for many years, and was a well knownâ€"citizen and a beâ€" loved member of several Clubs, includâ€" ing the Ladies Auxiliary of the Canâ€" adian Legion, and the Gold â€" Nugge:t Rebekah Lodge. l.eg'ipn Whist Drive Big Success at 8. Porcupine Wife of Corporal Allen Passâ€" edâ€" Away at St. Mary‘s Hospital.. Lo‘ to mourn her loss are her husâ€" band, popularly known a "Paddy", who announcement Anncuncos that his offivss have been moved from the MoeXnnis Block to the J. E. TAYOR, Barrister MOORE s BLOCK is serving with the Volunteer Home Guard, and stationed at Niagaraâ€"onâ€" theâ€"lake, and one son, Frederick, who was among the recruits for 3A«day training at North Bay. Toronto Telegram: A man certainly has his hands full when he tries to keep his rizht hand from knowing what his left hand is doing. ‘or. Pine and Fourth MONDAY. NoOVvVEMBER <4TH, 1940 TRAGCTORS Caterpillar tractor, Diesel, 60 H.P. model, R.D, 7 Thorâ€" oughly reconditioned and ready for hard work, Two Allsâ€"Chalmers 20 HP, Tractors, gasoline motors, vide tread. 18" t ice grousers. _T tors are like new l One Hydraulic Tractor snow | plow with all attachments. ! Has been used only tw winters. [ FELDMAN‘S HARVESTER One â€" truck plow 8â€"foot spread, model. Frink 148 S.P., used part of one seaâ€" son. Equipped with all truck attzazchments. SNOW PLOWS PRICED TO SELL QUICKLY CANADA PHONE ga Acszents Timmins tracks with These tracâ€"

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