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PROBATIONER WANTED for Cotâ€" tage Hospital. Apply . Box 335, * Timmins Ont. GREAT WAR VETERANS ASSOGIATION Club Rooms:â€"Over King‘s Amâ€" usement Parlors. Secretary:â€"H. C. â€" Garner, Government Employmermt Buâ€" reau, opposite the Post Office. Office hours, 9 to 5 each day exâ€" cept Sunday. A HEARTY WELCOME AND ALL POSSIBLE ASSISTANCE CIVEN ALL RETURNED MEN COLDFIELDS BRANCH _ Of the many stunts performed by the Sparks Cireus herd of Elephants the one that probably gets the most appreciation is the game of baseball pleyed by these mighty and unweildy pachyderms. Eevery play is gone through with in the most ludicrous manner, and tthe laughs furnished by home plate never fail to bring forth rounds of applause and laughter from the audience. Another funny situâ€" ation is when the pitcher has two strikes on ‘‘Big Mary,"‘ he and the catcher get into an animated arguâ€" ment over the next ball to he served by the pitcher and trumpet into each other‘s ears. ~This little piece of byâ€" play always msets with the instant SUBSCRIBE NOW this number will remain as a plueant rememberance of the circus. AlH the accessoriesâ€"pitcher, batter, catcher, umpire, fielder and their i 0 ) 2 2 MA o An a wl _ n n All the accessoriesâ€"pitcher, batter, catcher, . umpire, fielder and their gloves, masks, bats and uniformsâ€"are present, andâ€"‘‘Big Mary‘‘â€"in the roll of batter seldom misses a homeâ€"run swat, ana has thus established a .400 mark®> batting record for ‘herself. Running the bases and the slide to approvab of the audience and adds greatly to the already funny number. This act was presented to New York City‘s delighted millions last winter and came in for more favorable newsâ€" paper comments than any anfmal act seen there in recent years. â€" This feaâ€" ture i$ positively on the program of the Sparks World Famous Shows, which are billed to exhibit in Timmins Saturday August 2nd. A series of twelve games has been arranged among the football teams of the district for the competition this: year for the handsome E. (G@. Dickson silver eup, now on display at E. H. Bridger‘s store. This cup has only been won one season, though it is several years ago that it was donatea by, E. G@. Dickson. The war and other causes interfered with football in this district until this year when it is again one of the popular sports. Timmins was the first and last winâ€" ner of the Dickson Cup and this year again the Timmins team hope to reâ€" tain the trophy . â€" The following is the schedule of games as announced last week, the game in each case being played on the grounds of the team first named :â€" Twelve Games Scheduled for Chamâ€" pionship Trophy of the District July 19â€"froquois Falls vs Poreupâ€" ineâ€"Dome. Aug. 1â€"Melntyre vs lroquois Falls Aug. Gâ€"Poreupineâ€"Dome vs Meâ€" tyre. | August. 8â€"Irdquois Falls vs Timâ€" mins. Aug. 13â€"Timmins vs Poreupineâ€" Dome. f Aug. 21â€"Melntyre vs Timmins. _ Aug. 22â€"Poreupine Dome vs lIroâ€" quois Falls. ‘Aug. 27â€"Timmins vs Melntyre. Sept: 3â€"Poreupineâ€"Dome vs Timâ€" ming. : Sept 5â€"Iroquois Falls vs Melntyre Sept.rTOâ€"Melntyre vs Porcupineâ€" Donre . w 2t Sept. 12â€"Timmins â€"vs Froquois Falls. ; SEVENTYâ€"FIVE TOWNS UNDER HKOUSING‘ ACT Seventyâ€"five municipalities‘ in the Province have passed byâ€"laws under the provisions of the Ontario Housing Act, and about forty muncipalities are now building houses under this plan. Over 1200 plans have been approved and about 400 houses‘! are now in course of construction. The municiâ€" pal village of New Toronto, for inâ€" stance has let the contracts.for ovet 50 houses, Gâ€"rooms, solid brick, price $3,000.00 . There are 17 cities working: under the Ontario Housing Act, and 32 towns, Timmins being inâ€" cluded in the latter list. There are 14 villages and 11 townships taking advantage of the Provintial Housing plans. Through various delays, the Timmins â€" Housing Commission â€" has been held back up to the present, but hopes now to swing right ahead and do something. â€" Aceordingly applicaâ€" tions are invited now for houses under be Housine Act legislation. DOME PRESIDENT‘S WIFE GIVEN BELGIAN MEDAL Mrs. J.S. Bache, wife of the Preâ€" sident of the Dome Mines Company, recently received at her home in New York a medal with the following letâ€" ter in recognition â€" of her work in connection with the vietims of thecwar in Belgium :â€" ~ This medal is seut to you by the war victims jn Belgium during the oceupation . 7It is viven to you as a token of gratitude for the help that you have given them during the war. Only a very few of these medals have been made, and thus given only to the grea.teat, most devoted _ and ~most charitable helpers. _ The mothers who have been helped@ through the donaâ€" tions secured through you wish me to especially thank you. M de Hemptinne, 66 Rue St. Neuve, Pierre Grand, Belgium." The last isSue of The Pas (Manitoâ€" ba) Herald reports prospectors comâ€" ing into the Camp from the Athapaâ€" puskow Lake mineral resion as statâ€" ing that the Gordon ‘s dyke, on Copper Lake, is the greatest golo find of the }day in size and even distributioh wf alues. It is claimed that of the samples submitted for assay went under $9.00 a ton and none over $14. 00 to the ton. The dyke measures 20 feet in width and extends for a distâ€" ance of 5000 feet. The Herald thinks it is a remarkable discovery and a representative of: the paper has left for the seene of the strike. An‘oldâ€" timer the Poreupine who / spenf much time in the past few years in the Pas district, on the other hand was notunduly exeited over the strike. ‘‘Knew it was there, and ‘have been all over the ground. It‘s a rich gold strike all right, but not pracâ€" tical until there are better means of transportation, ete. As for $9 to $14 to the ton of ore that does not sound as stupendouns to people used to Porcupine highâ€"grade ore, as it does lto others out in the west.‘‘â€" _ e enc d es mm ns um oo cuan us sn . e omm o t IMPORTANT GOLL STRIKE AS REPORTED AT THE PAS P TIMMINS, SATURDAY, AUCUST 2 j io. t W At