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Over Six Thousand Pupils to be Attending Timmins Schools in Coming Term Over a Thousand Expected at the Timmins High and Vocaâ€" tional School. Public Schools Providing for Twentyâ€" g‘lhre(;: ILundred and Separate Schools for Twentyâ€"Eight undre About six thousand Timmins childâ€" ren will be going "back to school," or beginning school on Tuesday, Sep:.emâ€" ber 2nd. Some of them, perhaps, will be beginning a new era in their lives by continuing on to the High and Vocational School, while others, perâ€" haps, will be coming to a new school from another town. Whatever they are doing, they are going back to make new friendships and to renew old ones, but most of all, to learn not only the things which will provide them with work in later life, but the things which will make of them good citizens. To the High and Vocational School will go about one thousand of these childrenâ€"or, perhaps, when they come to this stage, they prefer to be spoken of as young ladies and gentlemen. To the public schools will go a number over two thousand three hundred:; and to the separate schools will go about two thousand eight hundred. Their school life for 1941â€"42 will be made up of three termsâ€"the Christmas term, from the fall to the holiday; the Easter term, from Christmas to Easter; and the spring term, from Easter to the summer holidays. t 00000 ¢ 00000000 000090 0 0 0 0 0000000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 Ah. Bruce Avenue South Po “00“000000"0000000“00000000“0000“0 Who loves knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? ; Let her work prevail. â€"Tennyson‘s "In Memoriam." THURESDAY, AUGUST 1941 GOOND SCHOOLS IN TIMMINS AND DISTRICT Jack and Jill é HEALTH SHOES Harvey Graham Son FAIRHURSTS BREAD Supplies the Vitamins so Necessary for Active School Children Back To School LOVING KNOWLEDGE Order From Your Grocer Ir Have It Delivered Regularly Youngsters must wear shoes designed and built for young feet. They need special care and attention if they are to develop norâ€" mally. Graham‘s is the place to buy good children‘s shoes because we give every asâ€" surance of perfect fit checked scientifically by Xâ€"RAY. You can actually see your child‘s feet in the shoes. Every pair is smartly styled, too, so that your youngster will be more than pleased. FAIRHURST BAKERY Try Our New VITAMIN Bâ€"1 TONK WHEAT GERM BREAD with Fine materials and good construction with the faâ€" mous Goodyear welt soles. Kind to young feet. Widths B. C. D. and E. Black or Brown. Twelve on Timmins High and Vocational Board Combined Timmins High and Vocaâ€" tional School Board now numbers twelve members, with Mr. J. T. White as chairman of the High School Board, and Mr. G. S. Drew as chairman of the Vocational School Board. Expect Attendance of Close to 800 at Kiwanis Convention Special Features for Oâ€"Qâ€" Other members are Messrs J. P. Burke, Philip Fay, G. 8. Lowe, Claude Desaulniers, Dayton Ostrosser, Thomas Harper, H. T. Rowe, Gordon Irving, J. D. Lacasse, and A. R. Harkness. Members of the 51 clubs of Kiwanis International that comprise the Onâ€" tarioâ€"Quebecâ€"Maritime District, who number over 3,000 of the representaâ€" tive business and professional men of their localities, are today making tenâ€" tative plans to attend the annual Disâ€" trict Convention in Montreal on Sepâ€" tember 21, 22 and 23 next. "Jack and Jiull" Guaranteed Quality Lowest Prices It Convention at Montreal, Sept. 21â€"23. South Porcupine eight years ago that delegates recupine Phone 76 $ C 4640 Phone 11 The President of the Kiwanis Club of Montreal, Edgar F. Tolhurst, has extended a cordial invitation to all Kiwanians in the Ontarioâ€"Quebecâ€" Maritime District to visit the commerâ€" cial metropolis of the Dominion with their wives. The programme has been so arranged that business and pleasure will smoothly intermingle. from the Central and Eastern provinces of Canada gathered in Montreal for a District Convention, accompanied by their ladies. The happy memories of the hospitality then extended to them by the St. Lawrence Kiwanis Club, composed largely of Frenchâ€"Canadians, are being revived by the invitation now extended by the Kiwanis Club of Monâ€" treal to again hold their deliberations at the great port, a thousand miles from the sea, which nestles at the foot of Mount Royal, in an atmosphere of history and tradition that is unique on this Continent. Acting Director of Church Army Visitor to Timmins District Governor John ‘M. Burden, of Toronto, will preside over the deâ€" liberations of the convention, and will have the support of the six Lieutenantâ€" Governors of the districtâ€"Frank H. Todd, Cobalt; W. Harolg Male, Toronto; Dr. J. Leslic King, Galt; Dr. Sydney W. Horne, Orillia; Charles H. Hulse, Ottawa; and Martin Livingston, Haliâ€" fax. Special attention is being paid to the arrangements for the entertainâ€" ment of the ladies attending the conâ€" vention. In addition to the receptions, luncheons, and the Governor‘s banquet and ball to which they are invited, they will have a Fashion Show and afterâ€" noon tea in the great dining hall of the T. Eaton Company of Montreal‘s store in the heart of the shopping disâ€" trict; a drive into the Laurentian Mountains, with luncheon at the Alpine Inn at St. Margaret‘s, one of the beauty spots of this great Vacatioon Land; and a dinner, dance and cabaret show at the Normandie Roof of the Mount Royal Hotel. In addition Immediate Past President Walter P. Zeller, is taking time off from his important war duties, to preâ€" side at the first official function of the convention on the Sunday evening, Sseptember 21â€"a religious musicale in the Windsor Hall, at which District Governor Holman will extend greetâ€" ings, and the Rev. Dr. Frank S. Morley, pastor of Stanley Presbyterian Church, Montreal, will be the speaker. A choir and distinguished soloists will partictâ€" pate in the programme. Montreal has two progressive Kiâ€" wanis Clubs among its million populaâ€" tion, with a combined membership of over 300 active Kiwanians. The Kiâ€" wanis Club of Montreal is the senior club, and is the host club to the conâ€" vention, but it has received assurances that the membership of the St. Lawâ€" rence Kiwanis Club will be 100 yper cent behind thom in making the conâ€" vention a memorable one. Every phase of Kiwanian activity will be dealt with in the reports that will be presented and discussed, during the four business sessions of the Conâ€" vention. Nearly 800 delegates are exâ€" pected to attend and make the gatherâ€" ing in Montreal one to be remembered by all participating in it. Captain Kenneth Baker, CA., acting director of the Church Army in Canâ€" ada, was the guest of Captain W. Vollick, of Schumacher, last week. Captain Baker came to Canada last year after spending four years in Japan as a Church Army missionary. This was Capt. Baker‘s first visit to the North Land and he was greatly imâ€" pressed with the development of the country and the large and modern city of Timmins. sSOUTH PORCUPINE HIGH SCHOOL ‘TTIMMINS, ONTA RIO ‘ Graduate from Pekmg o University in English "Dear Sir,â€"I am Sing Eu. It is for my personal benefit I write for a posiâ€" tion in your Honourable firm. I have a flexible brain that will adapt itself to your business and in consequence bring good efforts to your honourable Selves. «My education was being imâ€" pressed upon me in the Peking Uniâ€" versity in which place I graduate Numâ€" ber One. I can drive a typewritter with good noise, and my English is simple and great. My reference are of good class and shall you hope to see me, they will be read by you with great pleasure. My last job has left itself from me, for the good reason that the large man had died. It was on account of no fault of mine at all. So, Honourable Sir, What about it? If I can be of big uses to you, I will arrive on the same date that you should guess." (London Spectator) More expressive, if unconventional Englishâ€"this time from Hongâ€"Kong: Members of the Tisdale High School Board, 1941 Inquisitive Moose, Rockâ€"Eating Trout In Tales from Bush Freaks of Lightning. Bears Need Protection (?) (By Percy Ghent) Home in Sundridge for a few hours on Sunday, a park ranger who has spent a lifetime in Algonquin Park, told us some interesting things about fighting bush fires. In that immense reservation of 50 square miles, with its Ttanges of wooded hills, marshâ€" lands and about 2,000 lakes, the task of locating and extinguishing firesâ€"a high percentage of them caused by lightningâ€"is not an easy one. But, thanks to the vigilance of men in fire towers and a regular patrol by planes, fires are dealt with promptly and the damage and disfigurement in the lakeâ€" land playground is usually confined to a small area. Here is a typical example of the method employed: Three days ago a fire was reported at Crow Lake, roughâ€" ly in the centre of the park. It was spotted from a hydroplane. Flying low the observer was able to give a useful estimate of its extent and the distance to the nearest water. In this patrol plane and another, seven rangers who were stringing a new telephone line in the park some miles away, and four volunteer firefighters were carried to Crow Lake in a matter of minutes. One of the volunteers was a soldier spendâ€" ing his brief leave fishing. Fire hose, a pump worked by a gasoline engine and other equipment were also speedâ€" ed to the blaze by the air route. Two or three hours‘ hard work with sand and water conquered the outbreak and the burnt area was little more than three acres in extent. Freaks of Lightning During a recent thunders:iorm we watched the lightning strike in the bush three miles away, across Lake Bernard. A spiral of dense smoke shot skyward a few seconds later. No fireâ€" fighting equipment was required for this woodland fire. A torrential rain, the heaviest we ever saw, attended to Mr. R. E. Dye is the chairman of the Tisdale High School Board, which manages the affairs of the high schools at Schumacher and South Porcupine. Other members of the board. are Mr. D. E. Keeley, Mr. C. G. Kemsley, Mr. F. Laforest, Mr. M. MacMillan, and Mr. E. J. Booker. (Mr, H. E. Stratford is the secretary. it. Throughout the storm we were gazing southward over the lake, watchâ€" ing the lightning and the rain. Had we glanced through the north windows of the shanty, a more spectacular show migzht have been seen. Lightning struck and fired a farmer‘s barn so suddenly that there was no tims to rescue the stock, and some cattle and hogs were roasted alive. In the same s.orm the telegraph office at the staâ€" tion was struck, window‘s shattered and the telephone ripped from a wallâ€"the latter job done with the thoroughness that the oftâ€"interrupted business man is sometimes tempted to do with the same useful but muchâ€"abused instruâ€" A VIEW OF TIMMIXS HIGH AND VOCATIONAL SCHOOI ment. In this village, too, some time ago, occurred one of those queer freaks of lightning occasionally noted in the press. During a violent storm a man sat on the porch at the rear of his cottage. His dog, obviously nervous, went to him and crouched between his legs. Lighining struck and killed the dog without burn or injury whatever to the man. Sixâ€"Pound Stone In Fish Of the telling of fish stories, like the making of books, there is no end. And the variety thereof is infini.e. Here is the latest told to us by a docâ€" tor‘s wife who vouches for its accuracy: Trolling in one of the lakes farther north a friend of hers hooked a lake trout weighing 26 pounds,. Six pounds of this impressive weight was a round stone. Suggestions that fish and stone first met in the camp kitchen and not in the lake are denied wilh emphasis. This particular trout, therefore, must have been carrying the rock for ballast. We once made an Xâ€"ray examination of a goldfish, said to have been of a rare variety, that had expireq suddenâ€" ly and from no apparent cause. There was a stone in that fish the size of a grain of wheat, but what relation, if any, it bore to the fish‘s demise we did not learn. Fishing hereabout has not been notâ€" ably prosperous this season. One arâ€" dent angler, nevertheless, who usually drives to little known lakes, says he has had the best fun of a long sporting career. Fish have been scarce, but on every trip deer aplenty have been seen. and he thinks the prospects for hunters are bright. Inquisitive Moose Another fullâ€"grown bullâ€"moose grazâ€" ing on a sideroad near here was seen yesterday. According to a friend, this fellow was so big that he just "stepped over" a wire fence and scampered across a field on his approach. From a train on the north shore of Lake Superior once we saw a moose chargâ€" ing along the track at full speed in an apparent attemp‘i to keep up with us. A shower of coal thrown at him by the engineer and fireman was ignored. It may be that sheer curiosity brought the animal into that odd race. A veteran fire ranger told us that the moose‘s bump of curiosity is a big one. A man carrying a canoe at a portage fascinates him. Twice at the same poriage this ranger was followed at a respectful distance by a bullâ€"moose, On the third trip the animal made a more intimate investigation. In an attack from behind, he reared and struck at the canoe with his forelegs. Ranger and canoe were thrown against a tree and both sustained minor damage. At sunset on the following day a cowâ€" moose ventured near the woodsman‘s cabinâ€"possibly to apologize for her mate‘s bullheaded inquisitiveness. Molestation ceased. Bears Need Protection? Although we had resolveq not to reâ€" count any more bear stories, one heard at Pevensey toâ€"day ought to be told because it suggests that the bears, raâ€" ther than the farmers, on those remote hillsides need protection. It happened near Pickerel Lake. Two men were harvesting hay from a marsh meadow. They had two dogs with them. From an adojining stretch of bush a bear with three lively cubs appeared. All three cubs climbed the same tree when the dogs chased them. Barking dogs and one of the men with a hayfork kept the cubs in the tree while the other man ran to get a rifle. Despite the tradition of the mother bear‘s valor in defense of her young, she fled withâ€" out a fight. When the rifle arrived the three cubs were shot. Two of them were sold to tourist camps to proâ€" vide bear steak. Tied to a tree, the thira was used as a lure to bring the mother back for shooting in the evenâ€" ing. Said to be an expert shot, a third man concealed himself in a hay coil and awaited her return. Presently she made for the tree where her dead cub was tied at a businessâ€"like speed. But her haste was insignificant compared to that of the hunter. Without firing a shot he sprinted for home in panic. schumacher Public School Does Much for the Children Cadet Work, Manual Trainâ€" ing Special Features. Probably a dozen bears have been killed in this region within recent weeks. All the loss to farmers we have heard about is a single lamb. But the farmers, of course, claim they are destroyving future raiders, Besides providing classes for the studies which form the basis for lives of all Canadian children, the Schuâ€" macher Public School has inaugurated other forms of bringing together the children of public school age, and of making good citizens of the boys and girls. One of these is the Schumacher Public School‘s Cadet Corps, which trains boys to be menâ€"honest and upâ€" Tisdale High Schools Take High Standing as Educational Centres Interesting Feature of Schumacher and South Poreupine High Schools is the Effective Policy of Student Governâ€" ment and Staff Coâ€"ordination. Notable War Effort by Tisdale High Schools. right citizens of a great land. The manual training class provides an opportunity for the boys to learn woodâ€"working, giving them the adâ€" vantages of good training, and of beâ€" ing able to make useful articles for their homes. This summer, large groups of the boys who were members of the cadet corps, were treated to a two weeks‘ outing at Camp Bickell. (A story of their camp life was carried in The Advance of July 10th). At present, a group of girls is enjoying the hosâ€" pitalities of the camp, with its fine swimming and other outdoor facilities. There are sixteen rooms in the Schuâ€" macher Public School, with eighteen members of the staff besides the prinâ€" cipal, Mr. P. A. Boyce, and a music teacher. . The affairs of the school are awhbly directed by a school board comâ€" posed of three members, Mr. D. E. Keeley, chairman; Mr. M. L. Urquhart, and Mr. J. C. Jucksch. Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the hostierty of those who are yet unborn.â€"Addiâ€" son. A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. â€"Pope‘s Essays on Criticism. These literary studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age: they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumâ€" brance abroad; they accompany as at night, in our travels and in our xuxal streets.â€"Cicero. TO REMUS OPTICAL DEP‘T and Then to School M *h \*% SCHUMACHER m\ ,#\ i HARDWARE hnd to School Make sure your child back to school with to stand the strain. is starting eyes equipped [neffective eyesight makes poor students. An â€" examination will show * if glasses are needed or not. Make sure your child is back to school with eyes to stand the strain. Make the most of your school years. Take part in all the athletic activities offered. We will gladly help you select the proper equipâ€" ment from our large stock of well known makes. Third at Cedar LITTLE LEARNIXNG REMUS OPTICAL DEP "C Complete Equipment for Every Sport Phone 190 Timmins STUDIES EACH WRIGLGHT DITSON C. C. M. BICYCLES® AND SKATE3 A principal and seven teachers conâ€" trol the educative efforts at the High Schools in Schumacher and South Porâ€" cupine. Mr. W. S. Blake is the princiâ€" pal in charge of both schools, each of which has seven classrooms. It is exâ€" pected, however, that there may be eight classes in South Porcupine this vear. An interesting feature of both schools is the student government, an effective policy of student and staff coâ€"ordinaâ€" tion, which has crowned with more success the efforts of the teachers, and the ability of their pupils. This studâ€" ent government is comprised of a studâ€" ent council, which is made up of the preésidents of the various school activiâ€" ties, two teachers who act as advisers, and a girls‘ student captain and boys‘ student captain,. The government is headed by a president, a viceâ€"presidâ€" ent, and a secretary, and while each member of the government is of great importance, the highest post of any student to acquire is the election as boys‘ or girls‘ captain. This is an honâ€" our that each student some day hopes to gain, and is usually won by the most popular students in the school. Each year, elections are helqg at the school for the captains, and this is one of the most interesiing periods in the school term. The various boys and girls who are seeking the honour, conâ€" duct election campaigns, giving the reasons why they should become capâ€" tains, and finally elections are conductâ€" ed by the poll method, exactly in the manner of Canadian government. Like the other schools of the qistrict, the Schumacher and South Porcupine Hiizh Schools carry on the effective war efforts, donating money to worthy causes, and knitting articles for the Red Cross. In science, read by preference the newest works; in literature, the oldest, The classic literature is always modâ€" ern.â€"Bulwerâ€"Lytton. There is no other royal path which leads to geometry.â€"Euclid to Ptolemy I. CLASSICS ALWAYS NEW south Porcupine Main at Golden Phone 3990