re ¢ sigger And Better Haileybury seaemetios HAILEYBURY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3rd, 1927. Subscription $1.50 per year orty-Seven Rinks Entered in Spiel Here This Week vorty-seven rinks from all parts rick, Sudbury. of Northern Ontario were in at={_ Lee, North Bay, from Hartinan eultendance for the annual Norther! Liskeard. viblic} Ontario Curling Association bon-, Godfrey, Chapleau, from Gor- > dist-|spiel which opened here on Triys-| don, Haileybury. : es and/day morning. The Soo, Chaps) Murdoch, Englehart, trom [air- _s were| Little Current, Sudbury, Sturgeoy/ lie, Haileybury. ounds to the} Falls, North Bay, Timmins, I McCracken, "Limiins, wt they were] elehart, New Liskeard and Hail-; Meagher, Haileybury. "spiel or not and|¢ybury clubs were representeg | Buchanan, Englehart from Jay re given a rousing | making the 'spiel one of the big}|Gould, Haileybury. first appear-! gest ever held in Ontario. { | Solomon, fimmins, won The first draws were in tht!Adair, Haileybury. ing the day, | preliminaries of the President's! Binkley, Liskeard, from Tobey, » going on at|Cup, which started at 830 a.m,,/ Sudbury. are furnish-|and the nine sheets of good ice! McKellar, Soo, from xe the curl-| have been in use about sixtees| Haileybury. lapparcit "hours cach day since: * »|.Thempson, Haileybury. "evofeneh. Wang, Timmins. : Smith, Haileybury, from Mar- from from Pickard, * from She results up to the 5.d0draw 7 follows* "5S CUFF tin, Sudbury. egud Graham, Little @urfent, from won irom} McCamus, Liskeard. enim Ml Ist Round 'Hs, from! Wallace, North Bay, won from d: | McKnight, Liskeard. from Gib-| Dorsett, Sudbury, from Mont- !gomery, Liskeard. ym Dunbar! Stephenson, Liskeard from Car- michael, Sudbury. fran tar Nowtt Raw from Haen- "rom , at- belief is true, we may took for the 'Mayor Opens "Spiel BEAR SAW SHADOW AND SIX WEEKS OF WINTER TO FOLLOW AS RESULT 'Man and Wife Dead in Porcupine Tragedy Yesterday was Candlemas Day, = the date<when, acording to-the| qyivedy stalked in to a aie: e <4-544 ;- - | at a sat Fi 2 old Stiperstitiom, the' bear comes | cathering at South Poreupine on SET thee Te Recaces men ee PiiKe Pap SASSY 5 e S€€S i6)) visited the U-ainian hall a his shadow, the best tradition!) 014 ten p.m. while rehearsal of < states, he will retire to his den for another six weeks, while ifthe day is cloudy, he remains out. iplay was in progress and asker: his wife to step outside. Whe oe : 2 jshe refused he drew a pistol avi _iltere asm doubt of the pos-| fred eight shots. Oné of -- the sibility of Bruin observing his | entered the unfortunate woma shadow-yesterday, and if the old face below the right eve, killi-: her instantly. Pulich them cal: ly reloaded the magazine of t '° pistol-and Jeft the "Wunding: -+* appears that he intended to vis: the home of his wife's father arvt tat eae UE ata eRe ES mother and>.cominit a furth<- up to the present, there nas Deen! crime there, bul Chief MacGinnss no trouble in providing good ice, had removed the couple dowr- although the soft spell last week- tonne end-aroused some fears{ = I a >= si. "te Hditional officers. were called in to assist ip the hunt for the murd- erer. After about three hours of searching through barns, stables, ete.. he was seen making bis way ncross vacant lots towards the Dome Roagl about two a.m. Be- fore he had gone far he found a police car and some of the officers guarding that avenue of escape. Turning, he again found himself headed off and was surrounded by the nine police officers who had six weeks of cold weather. The day was exceptionally clear for February, the sun shining bright- ly from early morning. It.wwas a splendid day for the curlers~ and . ae edie goby saiter the occur- With 'Geod Stone' Promptly at 8.30. on Tuesday morning, in the presence of a great gathering of curlers from all parts of Algoma, Sudbury, Nipissing, Cochrane and Temis- kaming districts, Mayor Hamil- ton opened the big bonsniel-by throwin Tulich disappeared andad™, fl 4