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Sri derfePemcd x Ee PR HE 'Mary Thorborn, of To- " 'Everet Leach is now home| ronto, spent the week-end at her os public 'the hospital, and on way to|home, December the S80, recovery from his serious accl-| Mr. Stewart MacTaggart has|implements, dent, gone to Toronto. 5 Mr. W. Hern, of Regina,| Miss Winnie Gibion spent the|and cattle. Sale at one o'clock, 'called on rin hene last week. | week-end at home. Geo. and Ted. Jackson, A . EN and women of Ontario--it is time that we should all realize the terrible com- pleteness of the fire calamity that devastated Northern Ontario in the early days of October. Fires and calamities we have had before, but never such complete destruction as this. € Over 1,200 square miles laid desolate, town after town nothing but a - bleak expanse of ruins, hundreds of PATI : swept bare, thousands of your fellow citizens "cleaned out" and thrown shruptly back into man's primeval struggle' against nature and her grim forces: fire, hunger, ice"and the stark northern col Give 1,800 families a fighting chance to get on their feet. Temporary relief must go on. Winter the relentless foe Coming as this terrible fire'did, in the autumn, with 'the haryests in, with the - townspeople already preparing for the rigors of winter--the complete destruction wrought is the harder to overcome. Thousands of people at first had literally no place to lay their head, ke to wear and nothing to eat. They had to be taken care of at first, somehow, and then, desperately es the days went by, and the cold grew-more intense, rough but serviceable standard shacks, 16" x 20, have been replacing tents, old street cate, packing boxes and sheet iron--a ular food supply has been - es- dry and rough clothing is being Eel What can a man do with his house a blackened hole in the d, his barn a ares Deco, his work twisted pile of rub --and a northern blizzard raging over all? Temporary 'Relief Until Spring In the name of humanity we must see these fellow citizens through until Spring opens up the land and. general business activities are resumed. Money must be forthcoming from the citizens of Ontario, from municipalities, industries, soci- eties, public bodies, lodges, churches, etc.--not for: rehabilitation or re-establishment, but for the supply of bare necessities, "temporary relief" in fact, to the stricken North. Yea The Brighter Side of the Picture Everywhere throughout the fire swept district one hears only a strong, manly note of confidence, of resolution to go forward, to "stick to the country" if body and soul ean be held together, to make good once more, to restore the hundreds of burned farms, to rebuild the eight or ten destroyed towns--And it will be done if the stream of temporary relief from Old Ontario does not dry pl 2 To give immediate relief the Committee must. secure actual cash withou county would devise some means The he es continued. and provides a most o we a neighbouring district in its | of relief : be un The Northern Ontario Fire GIL i out giving. Nw EL er Sam We must not fail the North. All for One--One for All Here is a portion of our Province in ruins > and for the sake of the whole Province as well as for its own sake, this section must, be rest to prosperity and happiness. 'We n eed the Nort we need its vigorous, pioneering spirit so gue and all, let's Hive a hand into the saddle" and do it NOW. 'Moneys nesded. The Relief Com- mittee can buy in large quantitie: get big discounts, and often free ' of merchandise from the many manufacturers who are generously co-operating with the Committee. The exact needs are now known. The Northern Ontario Fire Relief Committee i has been enl is thoro oy pi Stave oF the ander thorn cial Government is co-operating fo t extent and is doing everything 'that ment can Erepetly do to do to assist in relieving th without delay. If each