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ing@ifferent to it all. Fire Prevention Week is a particular week set aside to call attention to the menace of fire. And just asi we must throw our whole strength against the forces which aim to destroy our liberty, so should we be Ee cannot afford to go on and be 'pre’aired to battle that other terrible demonâ€"Fire. Fire Prevention during wartime is an inescapable patriotic to the conduct of every feature of«business activity and increases; the den of the people in providing the ssities of life. art abundant and reliable water supply means of using it or to fail to apply the everyday rules of fire prevention, is to constantly face a menace of heavy fllfi and sweeping conflagrations. l hy tolerate a condition which not omly levies tribute upon life and proâ€" -pej‘ty but in effect imposes an added Pire is no respector of persns. Every man has a responsibility towards his neighbours and that responsibility should cause every rightâ€"thinkinz perâ€" m to pause and consider what he owes the community in which he lives. We owe it to ourselves but in a greater degree to our fellowâ€"citizens to permit no. condition to exist upon our preâ€" mises. that will invite a visitation »f fire. A great majority of fires are so ea;sy to prevent that it is certainly a moral crime to tolerate the things 'wbich bring them about. Cities and towns, like individuals, reap what they sew. To permit the ergection of fireâ€"traps, to fail to provide The world has now passed through two years of the second Great War and we have all read accounts of the deâ€" vasmtion and havore that has been wrought by means of incendiary and high explosive bombs and we have been shocked by the details of such accounts. Yet in the twentyâ€"one years since Fire Prevention Week was first establisined in Canada, this country has recorded more than 863,000 fires inâ€" volving a property loss of over $749,â€" 600,000 and a loss in human lives of more than 7,969. Our complacency in this respect is only matched by the complacency with which we watched Hitler attain power. (By Dominion Fire Commissioner, Ottawa) By Proclamation of His Excellency the Governor General of Canada, the week cf Octcer h to lith has been set aside as Fire Prevention Week. This week provides an annual occasion to impress upon public consciousness the enormous cost of the fire waste, to the end that conditions may be improved and fire carelessness reduced. Week of October 5th to 11th Proclaimed as Fire Prevention Week Here Sarnest Effort Made to Secure Coâ€"operation of All in Reâ€" ducing the Loss of Life and Property from Fire. Patâ€" riotic Duty to Seek to Reduce Fire Loss to Minimum. Room 10, Reed Block ~t" t l PP B ePAAA APâ€"AL :AAA l PP P LAAA L L L â€"ALC L L â€"ALâ€"AL LAAA â€"AL LAAA PAAA â€"AL PsP l P PP P Gordon Block Consult Us Toâ€"day About The World Wide Floater Policy It Covers Everything YÂ¥ ou Own A. WILSON LANG 29 Years Writing The Most Reliable Board And Nonâ€"Board Companies J. E. Bernier We represent the reliable Confederation Life Association, also General Insurance and Real Estateâ€"Phone 1260 and have our representaâ€" tive call toâ€"day! Be Sate Insure Now! Notify the electric company of elecâ€" trical trouble and the gas company of gas leaks. Replace "blown" fuses; with new onesâ€"not penmnnies. Avoid homeâ€" made wiring jobs. Don‘t look for gas leaks with a match. Escape the danger cof flammable liâ€" quid fires and explosions by keeping no gasoline in the house. Do dry cleaning with safe liquids or send the work to the cleaner,. Never start fires with kerosene. INSURANCE Examine all stoves, furnaces, and smokeâ€"pipes to make sure they are sufe and wel away from woodwork or other burnable materials Have needed reâ€" pairs made at once. Value the advice of your fire chief who says that many fires are caused by dirty or defective chimneys. Have the chimney cleaned regularly, and have all defects repaired. Remove rubbish, waste papers and all unnféces:sary â€" combustible |\materials. Provide metal ash and trash cans. Burn rubbish only in a safely covered brick or medal incinerator. Watch the fire. Put lighted matches and smokes out before you throw them away. Keep matches where small children, canâ€" not reach them. Never smoke in the garage, barn, or attic, nor in bed. These Rules Will Help Make Your Home Safe from Fire. Pécaus» the coming week is Fire Prevention Week in Canada, the folâ€" lowing suggestions and rules have been prepared with the idea of making homes as safe as possible from fire. These simple syggestions should be carefully read and as carefully folâ€" loawed. Some Suggestions for the Preventing of Fires in Homes The Dominion Fire Prevention Assoâ€" ciation in coâ€"operation with provincial fire marshals, local fire chiefs, insurâ€" ance organizations and other organâ€" izations of national scope is constantly working in the furtherance of the aims Of Fire Prevention. â€"iAre you doing your part? vital resources to restore the burned property. Let us make FPire Prevention a 52â€"week a year proposiâ€" tion! duty. Every fire means the using of Teach everyone in the family to be Timmins 3 Pine St. S. Plans to have an exhibition game here between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens fell through when the managements of both clubs stated that they didn‘t like to other before the NLL. seaâ€" son started. In the event that either of those teams appears in the district they will pick up two teams among their own players for the game. "What are you going to do : sir?" demanded the enraged ‘"‘The walls of my house are all outward." "Bulging outward, are they the landlord, with a pleasan "Then yeour house must be b shall raise yvour ront."â€"Exchan Public skating is expected to start at the McIntyre Arena about the ond of this month. It is expected that the ice surface will be ready about October 25th and public skating will get under way immediately. Personnel of the two teams is made up mostly of junior hockey players and a few of the seniors. Others picked to fill up the teams are some of the perâ€" sons who have shown themselves to be good roller skaters. The McIntyre Concert Band is coâ€"cperating with the afficials and in betwgen periods some of the district‘s star performers will give exhibitions of dancing on roller skates. The evening‘s entertainment will terâ€" minate the summer‘s activity in the McIntyre Arena and the floor boards will then be ripped out and an ice surâ€" face will be laid for the hockey and skating season. The schedule for the district‘s hockey games is expected to get started about December 1st. iAn exhibition game here between the Mcâ€" Intyre team and the Ottawa Senators may be arranged. The Senators have been asking for a date here and it is quite possible that the McIntyre will accept the invitation. Sport fans in Timmins and the surâ€" rounding district are in for a real treat in a couple of weeks. Bob Croshy manager of the McIntyre Arena, anâ€" nounced this week that a hockey game was scheduled for the McIntyre Arena on Friday, October 17th. It isn‘t the same kind of hockey game that the fans in this district are used to watchâ€" ing. This game will be played on roller skates. Two teams have been picked up and they already have held a numiber of practices. New Kind of Hockey ‘CGame Scheduled for October 17. Play Under Same Rules as Ice Game. Hockey on Roller Skates to be Tried at Mclntyre Arena Save life and property from needless destruction by fire by keeping the prinâ€" ciples of fire prevention always in mind and never taking a chance with fire. the burning building. Explain to everyone in the how what to do in case of fire, how to pw: out fire in clothing by wrappinz in a rug or blanket, what to do when grease catches fire in the kitchen. careful of fire, to watch stoves, fireâ€" places, electric irons and all other posâ€" sible fire causes, and every day to reâ€" move cld rags, papers and other rubâ€" bish. Remember always where the nearest fire alarm box is and how to send an alarm. If telephoning, be sure the address is clearly understood. Use a neighbour‘s phone rather than one in the burningz building. Fireproof your home as far as posâ€" sible by fireâ€"sate roofing, fire stopp.n:g in hollow walls and partitions to stop the spread cof fiame, and a nonâ€" comâ€" bustible basemont ceiling. Inquire of your fire chief, when buyâ€" ing a fire extinguisher, to be sure of getting the right kind. Don‘t hesitate to. ask your firemen whenever you have qauestion: om Fire Prevention. THE (POOR TENANT! Phone 295 going it0 dGo aDout i a pleasant smile enraged tenan all hulgin 2l said THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, ONTARIO A charge of selling liquor against Steve Tancrajter was dismissed when one of the important witnesses failed to appear. The case had been reâ€" manded for a couple of weeks but was finally disposed of by this dismissal. Laurier Trudell, a young fellow living at 138 Willow street, faced a charged of cbstructing the police. The charge follewed a raid on the Willow street hous», the police giving evidence that Trudell had run into the house and tried to dispose of a bottle of wine. They salvaged half of the wine. The youns fellow told a rather involved story, and was fined $25 and costs or thirty days. Gilbkert Souey was charged by Miss Alice Carriere with assniult causing actual bodily harm. The young lady appeared in court with two black eyses, swollen lips and a cut and swollen jaw. On the stand she said that after a bottle of beer or two the man invited her to his room where she received the beating. She got out of the room bleeding badly and called the police, who found her almost covered with blood. The accused pleaded not guilty, but the magistrate found the evidence convicted him and in summing up said that the character of the young lady, whether it might be good or bad, did not in any way excuse such an assault. He sentenced Souey to sixty days at hard labour. In nolice court Tuesday the charge of rcbbery with violence was dismissed azains;; Rene Grise, who lives at a rocming house on Balsam street. Miss Francoise Gagne preferred the charg> azainst him, claimming that she was walking on Balsam street, when ho came up behind her, her on the head and smatched her purse. She notified the police who later arrested Grise whom the young lady identified as the assailant. On the stand, Grise said that the lady had been to his reom and afterwards he missed thirtyâ€" eight dollars from underneath his pilâ€" low. He ran after the young lady and grakbed her purse to recover his monsy. He proved that he had a good jcb and didn‘t nsed to steal. Dean Kester, K.C., who appeared for Griss, closely crossâ€"examined the comâ€" plainant as to her visit to Grise‘s room. After hearing both sides of the case, the magistrate dismissed the charge. Dismissed in Case of Purseâ€"Snatching The magistrate asked her if she loved the man and she nodded her head indicating that she did. He then asked her if she loved him enough to marry him and she again said that she did. She was also asked if the man had ever mentioned anything about marriage to her and she said that he had mentioned the subject some time ago. The magistrate looked at the child again and said that he wasn‘t going to be any party to a marriage between a girl as young and a man like the accused. He then sentenced the man to a year in jail and told the girl that if she wanted to marry the man after he finished his term, it was up to her. In passing sentence on the man the magistrate said that young girls have to be protected from men of the sort that was charged. Even though the deâ€" fendant did want to marry the girl, the magistrate said, it had no bearing on the charge. He had committed an act and had to be punished for it. He to‘ld the young girl that if she wanted to marry the man when he came out of jail next year that she could do so. Béifore passing sentence the magisâ€" trate asked to hear some of the eviâ€" dence and the court was cleared for the hearing. The young girl who lookâ€" ed more like an eleven or twelve year old child than the fourteen years that she said her age was, took the stand and admitted that she had been intiâ€" mate with the accused on three occasâ€" ions! in the past month. Timmins Man is Jailed for Year on Serious Charge Ephram Belair, of Riverside Drive, across the Mattagami River bridge, was sent to jail for a year on Tuesday afternoon when he appeared before Mgistrate Atkinson, charged with carâ€" nal knowledge of a girl under sixteen years old, and pleaded guilty to the charge. The case came before the magistrate last week and at the request of the defendant it was remanded for a week. There was a suggestion by the defendant that he intended to marry the young girl. The Yankees went into the lead in the second inning and in the fourth inning each team counted once. In the sixth inning the Yankees went ahead 3â€"1 and in the seventh inning the Dodgers cut the gap by one run. Feature of the hitting for the day was a home run by coe Gordon in the second inning. Gordon also had a sinâ€" gle and two walks in his other three trips to the plate. The New York Â¥ankees won the first game of the World Series at the Yankee Stadium yesterday afternoon when they defeated the Brooklyn Dodâ€" gers by a three to two score. Red Rufâ€" fing, playing in his seventh world series game won his sixth game. 68,540 peoâ€" ple attended the game to break *"the allâ€"time record for aitendance and the amount collected at the gate also broke the record. New York Yankees : Take First Game in World Series Joe Gordon has Perfect Day s With Home Run. + | Sixâ€"man Rugby is going to be playâ€" ed again this year. The boys have been divided into three divisions: the Junior, Intermediate and Senior. The Junior division has put ten teams in, Intermediate nine and the Seniors six. The First Formers make up the Junior division; the Second Formers, the Inâ€" ‘mediate; and the Third, Fourth and Fifth Formers the Senior division. Approximately 250 boys will take part in sixâ€"man rugby this year. These following are the hoys picked as capâ€" tains of the rugby teams: Steve Marâ€" cinieve, Niilo »Oksanen, Fay Lucien, Piginski, Joe Bielek, Raymond Savard, John Barry, Tom Wilkins, Odone De Lucca, Roger Bissmette, Jim Clatâ€" worthy and Bob O‘Grady. A great deal rests on the shoulders of these boys. They will be the ones whowill make the sixâ€"man rugby league a successfu) one. It will be their duty to get their teams out for any game and conduct their team in the field in the right way. COMMERCIAT STUDENTS HOLD CANDY SALE The candy sale sponsored by Miss F. Evans and conducted by the Comnterâ€" clal Students was heid last Friday and proved to be a great success. $21.16 sPORT NEWS After three weeks of hard training the Senior and Junior Rugby teams have been picked out. There is a vast difference this year. Last year enough boys turned out to make two full Senâ€" ior squads and three full Junior squads.. This year enough boys turnâ€" ed out to form one Senior squad and two Junior squads. The Juniors do not need players but the Seniors do, and there are a lot of Senior players that never turned out, and who would be Aâ€"1 material. A book review on "The Talisman" was given by Miss Corinne Church. Although not everyone considers "The Talisman" a great book, everyone agrees that this was a great speech. Everyone in the assembly could hear Miss Church deliver her fine address. We look forward to next Friday‘s book review. Mr. Young then took over and the assembly ended with a singâ€"song. ASSEM BLY An. inspiring address on Leningrad was given at last Priday‘s Assembly by Miss Lucette Hanson.. "No conqueror has ever trod her streets and let us hope none ever will." Miss Hanson especially emphasized these words. The whole assembly applauded lustily. Toâ€"day we introduce the first T. H. and V. S. Jottings column of the 194i fall term. [ For the benefit of those who are not already familiar with it, it is the news column of the Timmins High and Vocational School, written by the students and containing varied items of current interest to students and, we hope, to others as well. Be sure you have adequate insurance Ask About Our Low Rates on FIRE INSURANCE SULLIVAN NEWTON 17 Pine Street N. If This Scene Should Take Place In Front Of Most fires are due to careâ€" lessness and neglect, make sure you do your part to wipe out the demon Fire. Are You Protected ? Your Home or Business Insurance In All Its Forms was received, which will be used to buy cigarettes and other comforts for solâ€" diers. Uniteds Are Idle for Second Time. Imperials Lose Two Points to Pave Way for seven Up. seven Up Takes Over Dart League Lead Friday Night Seven Up went into the lead in the Timmins Dart League on FPriday night of last week when they asplit their points with Wally Armstrong‘s White Labels, United who had been tied for the top spot with Imperials and Seven Up were idle for the second time last week and they remained in second place. When Imperials dropped all their points to Dinkey Doos they woere foreed into a second place tie with United. United stil rema‘inesd the team to be only one po Dalton Block, Cedar St. S. Timmins â€" Phone 1675 Dirty heating systems cause the majority of fires and this is the cheapest and safest way to prevent them. One Of The Surest Ways Of Fire Prevention By men who understand every detail of their joh. Have them clean your heating system at least once a year. By doing so you are protecting your proâ€" perty and yourself. ONLY THE MOST MOPBERN Call Us Toâ€"day EQUIPMENT Ql{;s.f;:,m and Be Safe In Your Home Have Your Heating System Cleaned Regularly A. VERKRCIVAL beat, though, ; point behind th §1T1QOP FIRE DBped All hey were tie with and Sunday Schcol Teache prodigal son arrived hom pened Tommy?: Tommyâ€"His father ran and hurt himself. "Why, where did you "It said his father ran his neck. I bet it . wCl to fall on your ‘The Legionaires and St. John‘s toa each took a pair of points on FPAd as Thorpe Radio and Canada Buds ! before the sharpshooting of their c ponents. 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