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-JMWWQOWOWWMMWOWQ“: #0@000800000000000§$0066000000464 F. C. H. SIMMS, THIMAMIHN S Pjone 64 P J). Box 186 The *‘National"‘ via Transcontinental ronto and Winnipeg, leaving Toronto each and Saturday; leaving Winmpes each Su Thursdavyv. Through trains daily (except Sunday) between Toronto and Englehart, and operating through Pullman Cars. Cafe Parlor Car service bet ween North Bay and Englehart, d.ul\ (except Sunday). Connections at Earlton Jet. for Elk Lake branch points, daily, (except Sundays). Daily (except Sunday) services between North Bay and Cochrane, operating through sleeping car between Timmimns and Montreal C. P. Local Service between Englehart and Cobalt, daily, (except Sunday). For full particulars, see current timeâ€"table or refer to any T. N. 0. Agent. Real Estate and Insurance TIMMINS and SOUTH PORCUPINE A. «J â€"PARK, G. F.P. A.,; Northâ€"Bay,, Out. Timmins Representative tinental route between Toâ€" ito each Tuesday, Thursday ecach Sunday, Tuesday and SQUTH PORCUPINE After Every Meal Phone 30 P.0. Box 319 7 he Flavor Last chargeable against the land and the Ontario â€" Government â€" advance the money as a loan to the settler. In this way an eflicient and experienced man would be in charge of all the sehools and sge that they were properâ€" be to supervise rul thern Ontarto. T would see that sel where necessary ; I sessment was made ed where passible; were â€" uncollectable ‘*Mr. Douglas portrayed a most pitiful condition of affairs in regard to reral schools in the loceality of Matheson distriect. He stated that many schools had been built, but that very few of them had been able to remain open for more than a month or two each year. Taxes had been levied against Iands of settlers which the trustees were unable to collect, and as a result the section had been saddled with debt so that it was unâ€" able either to pay off its existing liaâ€" bility or provide further school aeâ€" commodation. _ Mr. Douglas stated that atter thinking the matter over from its various angles, he hait deâ€" cided upon a plan which he thought would work out satisfactorily. It was that the Government would appoint a commuissioner whose duty it would be to supervise rural schools in Norâ€" thern Outarto. â€" This Commissioner would see that schools were opened where necessary; that a proper ast sessment was made and taxes collectâ€" ed where possible; and where taxes were uncollectable they would be ‘*Tlhe Mayor stated Faat he was not altogether conversant with the condiâ€" tions of rural schoo‘ls in this of the Province, nor with what had been done in regard to the matter up to the present time. He therefore called upon Mr. K. A. Douglas of Matheson to explain conditions and state what was done at the meeting held at Matheson some few weeks ago. *The attendance was not large, and after waiting for more than lhhlf an hour for a larger erowd to gatherâ€" for the question is one worthy of a much â€" larger â€" attendanceâ€"Mr. W. MeceD. Douglas made a motion that Mayor Rothschild be asked to take the chair. Mr. Geo. Kydd wuas apâ€" pointed secretary of the meceting. Post of the meeting recently held in Cochrane to disceuss the question :â€"â€" ‘‘The question of further Governâ€" ment assistance for rural schools in Northern Ontario was a much disâ€" cussed topic at a meeting in the Town Hall last evening, held under the ausâ€" pices of the Cochrane Agricultural Society and the Cochrane Board of Trade. As the consideration of the views and opinions of different people nearâ€" ly always helps to give new lights and ideas on a problem and its posstâ€" ble solution, The Advancee prints beâ€" low the report from The North Land Post of the meeting recently held in Cochrane to disceuss the question :â€"â€" whole question again and see if someâ€" thing special can not be done to overâ€" come special difficulties. Any money expended by the (Government to the good end of providing adequate rural schools for the North will in nowise be a waste, but rather a most profitable â€" investment â€" from â€" every nowise De 4 profitable standpoint. Publiceâ€"spirited â€" people in â€" hoth Matheson and Cochrane have recently been earnestly attempting to find a solution of the problem of proper school accommodation in the rural sections of the North Land. The proâ€" blem, of course, is not confined to the immediate distrmicts around Matheson and Cochrane, difficulties mueh nearer to Timmins keing ®known. The diffiâ€" culties arise from the conditions preâ€" vailing in a new country where settâ€" lers can hardly be expected to be very numerous or very rich. Strange as it nay appear in this age of the world, there are some settlers who are not ver anxious for adequate school acâ€" commodation, and these are the very ones for whom the schools are the most imperative in the general interâ€" ests of progress and advancement. ests ol progress and advancement. In many cases where the popular feelâ€" ing, however, is strongly in favor of adequate rural school accommodation, the popular purse is not equally strong. It seems to The Advance that the Government should take up the whole question again and see if someâ€" Studying Problem of Rural Schools for the North Land MEETINGS RECENTLY HELD AT MATHESON AND COCHRANE TO FIND A REMEDY FOR CONBITIONS THAT ARE VERY MUCH UNDESIRABLLE. ) The War Has Taken a Big Proportion, and the Mines Have Taken Many. ‘‘Mr. ~Dempsay was â€" appointed Chairman of the Cochrane section of the Committee and Mr. Ginn, Chairâ€" man of the Matheson section. ‘‘A resolution was passed that Mayor Rothschild and Mr. Geo. Kydd act as Chairman and Secretary reâ€" spectively of the organization until its object had been attained."‘ PROSPECTORS NOT 50 PLENTIEUL KOW The year 1916 in the North was noâ€" table in that very few prospectors were out on the still hunt for new next meeting and to gather informaâ€" tion on the subject, also that a comâ€" mittee be formed to gather informaâ€" tion to be placed before the next meetâ€" ing and the Government representaâ€" tive. A motion to this effect was passed. A committee was appointed consisting@ of the following: Messis~. Carter, Pittis, Dempsay, Douglas, Mills, Chalmers, Ginn, Woodard and Lawless. siderable support. After some further disecussion Mr. K. A. Douglas suggested that the meeting adjourn until some future date, and that the Gavernment hbe asked to send a representative to the next meetinge and to gather informaâ€" ~p ‘‘Mr. Palmer of Englehart stated that in his opinion, the settlers should Je asked to huild their own scehool ard that upon doing so the (Governâ€" ment should provide a teacher and maintain the school for the first three vears. â€" This suegestion received conâ€" ‘‘Mr. 8. J. Dempsay when called upon for a solution of the problem stated that he thought there were enough Government officials at presâ€" ent. He thought that in a school seeâ€" tion where the settlers could not mainâ€" tain a school, the Government ought to step in and build and maintaimn the school until such time as the residents in that section would be able to do it themselves. ‘‘Rer. Mr. Pitts outlined, at some ‘*Rev. Mr:â€"Pitts ~outlined, at â€"some length, the steps taken in Manitoba to cope with the situation which he supposed was, in many respects, someâ€" what similar to that existing in Norâ€" thern Ontario. Iy maintained DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, COVTAWA, OCTOBER 7h, 1916. Helders of this stock wil have the privilege of surrendering at par and accrued interest, as the equivalent of cash, in payment of any allotment mace under any fulure war loan issuse in Canada other than an issue of Treasury Bills or like«short date security. Proceeds of this stoc‘s ~rs for war purposes only. A commission of o=c=â€"=~ of one per cent will be allowed to recognized bond and stock brokers on allotme= : in respect of applications for this stock which bear their Principal repayable 1st Cctober, 1919. Interest payable halfâ€"ye 1st April and 1st October by cheque (free of excharige at any chartered Bank in Canada) at the rate of five per cent per annum from the date of purchase. DCMINION OF CANADA BEBENTURE STOCK HOSE WHO, FROM TIME TO TIME, HAVE FUNDS REQUIRING INVESTMENT MAY PURCHASE AT PAR For application form was passed that and Mr. Geo. Kydd and Secretary reâ€" T O INVEST ORS IN SUMS OF $560 OR ANY MULTIPLE THEREOF. This is not an easy eountry to travel, canoe routes being few, but prospectors are footing it elear from the railway to the Quebee boundary, 30 miles distant. Reguaurdless of conditions of travel, or distance, the north is cocked and reaidly to go off on a killing, be it gold, silver or nickel. % r€et one must not speak (deridingiy 0J the amateur. Some of the best claim stakers, and some of the‘ men who have made bhig money out of the rock, are merchants and farmers and office men who have learned the ways of the hush and have cleverly, and with knowledge of gzeology gleaned from hbooks, staked good country. And they are back at counter, ledger or plow, ready to take in the next rush. Already the rumors of new fields are floating about. It is said that some fine gszold showings have beéen discovered a coupnle of townships from Tisdale. It is said that in the north of Nipigon, 150 miles above the ‘T.C.RK., a very rich gold field has been found. The ~annual of silver‘‘ story has raised its modest ‘head in places where miners congregate, and as usual the discovery is this side of theâ€" Albany. . Rumors drift in that some creat finds have been made along the C.N.R. Transcontinental line, in a country that the railway has gone to much trouble to map and otherwise explore this year. Nearer what is home to most of the prospectors, men are quuietly tripping into the bush east of the railway from Bourkes north to Ramore, looking to connect all the links in the gold belt that runs east side of the railway from above Engleâ€" hart to Matheson. towns and discovery, t and the getâ€" andâ€" railway and drawing for themselves against the ti 40â€"acre chunks once more ple: fields, says The Canadian . Mining News. In the larger centres, The Mining News continues, the prospeeâ€" tor is also a rara avis. Three years ago there were six to seven thousand gentlement of the handpick roaming the north, either looking busy in the towns or tracking through the bush. Rushes were frequent. ‘The prospeecâ€" tor was always picturesquely in eviâ€" denee, or quietly according to his upbringing. The woodâ€"slatted cars of the T. N.0. were filled with prospectors and their smoke. Toâ€"day these cars carry men whose occupaâ€" tions are pulpwoodâ€"cutting, clerking, stumpâ€"jerking, or plain, prosaice minâ€" ing. â€" Instead of the redâ€"kerchiefed prospector, the ralway hauls chiefly toâ€"day the blueâ€"shirted black or bhlond From across the Quebee bhorder. out of sight, to bring hin The â€" whispe from man to in the woods faster than it, would tell o further the field would spread{an Tushes 11 onst sp the north r@S 1 ime the 1%+C Phe \lf‘l()ll town ; to the Deputy Minister of Finance, Ottawa. 2 I WAIPI 2 18 ho OO3 e prospector is Keepmng nly a whisper is needed out in Imns thousands. _ passed _ mysteriously man, many miles apart and from town to town 1e tfelezraph eould take 111( e( sp \ LElL ind new field 1¢ deridingly of he best claim he‘ men who t of the rock, >rs and nlhce new fields s said that have beéen nuships from the north of out e ways of , and with ined from And they r or plow, accordng odâ€"slatted filled with . m countet S 11 snn buver h waill the news r the reoâ€" woOorkIng perous 11s (Time of â€" the meâ€" far Un Phe t or pe The successful tenderer shall be required to ereet a suitable plant, costing with the equipment and mac‘htâ€" inery thereof not less than $100,000, on or near the territory, and to manuâ€" facture the timber in the Ontario. Parties making tender will be rcâ€" quired to deposit with their tender a marked cheque, payable to the Honâ€" orable, the Treasurer of the Province of Ontario, for $10,000, which amount will be forfeited in the event of their not entering into agreement to carry out conditions, ete. The highest or any tender rot ncâ€" cessarily accepted. For particulars as to deseription of territory, eapital to be invested, etce., apply to the undersignedâ€" Minister of Lands, Forests and Minces Toronto, February 1l7th, 1917. N.B.â€"No unauthorized publication of this notice will be paid for. ‘ » , 4 ’ ( ( The 2oith Rarlway Construction Battalion, authorized in January, and practically filling up its ranks in a month, is now reported by pmvate cables coming to the to be safe across in England. This Pattaâ€" lion was under the.command of Lseut.â€" Col. L. Martin, of Renfrew and Coâ€" balt, who made a Canadisan resord in and .. L01ccy being the last of those to leave Timâ€" mins. They left here only about three weeks ago, and now may be on active duty near the firing line, if signs fail not in the matter. ‘The 257th bhad a large proportion of lumbermen, railâ€" way construction men and miners on its strength, practically all being either North Land men, or men with experience in this country. . This railâ€" way construction umt should prove a pm'tivul:n'lv effective one as practiâ€" ‘ally all from the Colonel down are practical and experienced men in conâ€" struction work and similar activity. AJlion andâ€" nineteen fto t.i while springin @L North Land Railway Construction Urnit Keeping Up Great Record for Speed. @Cluded in Bballd Gallagher and Pte. the last of those to They left here onlyv 111 a figer eacn C twenty feet at n# upon their . H. FERGUSON, W r from bound ."i\':ltn ‘o be _xie"t." i roOomt striect Lieut. 16â€"20 rd in iting, will the 1TYL