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Try a Want Ad in \ _ The Porcupine Advance ‘_TIMMINS BRANCH, o _ SCVTH PORCUPINE BRANCH, 1 39 FOURTH AVENUE OCPPOSITE FIRE HALL £For the best in Fruits, Confectionery, etc., and for Ice Cream, come here. ‘In Toys, Fancy Goods, Jewe'uy etc., as we are going out of these lines. Pleasure Ice Cream Parlout i 1. R. BRIDGES Big Bargains These Days â€" at P. Antoine‘s Phone 347 Fire Wood in any iengtns to suit from 14 inches to wood in log. â€" Dr: and green Jackpine. Prices very rea song@ble. Crder your wood now be fore the rush. BOX 147, SCHUMACHER, ONT Systems install\ C Statements DTGFN'SJ Books kept for rwkerchants not reâ€" quiring full time bookâ€"keeper. EOe m TT _____.__.- Eie ie en AUDITOR }ID ACCOUNTANT Frank Y. Uttley IMPERIAL BANK _ um 0 t Late Military School of Music, London, Eingland Has opened a Music Studio, for Violin, Mandolin, Cornet, Trombone and all Wind Instruments and Traps. Special Course for Beginners for particulars call at The : Saving Habit ne 24 CHARLEB OIS, 0 Cedar St.. Timmins. ugtns to suit, in log. Dry lces very reaâ€" OH CA Saving is easyâ€"it just takes a little determination to get the habit. If you will only determine to save a certain sum each week, and stick to your resolve, in a surprisingly short time there will be a substantial sum to your credit. Try it! Open a Savings Account at this Bank. Pays highest prices for secondâ€"hand furniture. Sells new and secondâ€"hand Furniture at cheap prices. NEW MACHINE FOR SHARPENâ€" ING SKATES Does Good Work and does it quickly. It will pay you to try us once, you‘ll come again. Bocts and Shoes and Rubbers reâ€" pairscd in firstâ€"class style. Best Boots and Shoes and Rubbers Sold at the lowest prices. 60 Pourth Avenue Corner Balsam Max Greenberg BUYS AND SELLS FURNITURE Dest dining room | Meals at all hours Now open for MONETA P.O. Box 3, Timmins. D. SUTHERLAND, Manager. IROQUOIS PALLS. PARIS HOTEL n for business, ss rooms, and steam heated oâ€"date conveniences. and Sitting Rooms. Rooin for Travellers iny room in town. F. R. WAY, Manager. $ Try it Once, Try it Again _ _ D. of C.â€"Jas. Brown,. ! Organistâ€"W . E. Horner. â€" 1.G.â€"Thos. Fell. } Tylerâ€"J. Spritz. |__After the work of the lodge, a banâ€" quet was enjoyed as is the eustom on St. John‘s Night. The ladies of memâ€" bers of the lodge were préesent as ] well as visiting brethren and all spent a very pleasant social evening. Solos by Mr. Geo. Horner were much apâ€" preciated. The singâ€"song was another feature of the evening, the ehorus singing was much enjoyed and enterâ€" ed into with zest by all. There was | INSTALLATION OCOF OFFICERS | PORCUPINB LODGE, A.F. A.M are municipaiilles in Ihe Ni Land that omitted to add the na of women to the voters‘ list. Co and Teck discovered the omission name In Inspirition and inlerest also in addresses given during the evenin and altogether the event was succes: MAY CUT OFF NATIONAL SLEEPER AT HBAFEST. W unders U The dividends V W . M L. PM 4 Dieas M e( 11 )N no Offhcer, Widdifield )1J M women ent :\”fln D the lowns Woq Ha p fthe oml entitled â€" even afte Te in de d and quit the THE PORCUPTINE ADVANCE arce 'DV lea fto er the th re of Dack ie North 16 OTH not tAY. ,‘ in of €] d But the homesteaders came. Then later the big farmers arrived with their tractors and ushered in the era of the thousand acre wheat ranch. A series of "wet years" made Seuthern Alberta famous. Nowhere had such crops ever previously been heard of. The Noble Foundation, one of the largest farming corporations in the world, brought in a crop of wheat from one thonsand acres that threshed 54,000 bushels! The country was thick with elevators. In 1915 and 1916, Southern Alâ€" berta reached the peak of prosperity. A series of unâ€" productive years followed when rainfall was scant. some farms were abandoned, but, mostly, men held on, buoyed up by the wonder harvests of other years.. ® The problem was purely one of moisture, and the Governments of the Dominion and the Province set about to study it. The soil was of the greatest ferâ€" tility, the climate was right. Something to supplement e natural rainfall was wanted. The Canadian Pacific HAD been told to expect a transformation: that a new order of things was being born in Southern Alberta ; that, a new system of farming was taking the place of the old. I was told that the days of "scratching in" and of "soil mining" were gone days. Nevertheless, I was not prepared for what:I saw. Fifteen years before, I had travelled through this country and had seen only a few scattered farmsteads set out on the "baldâ€"headed" prairie, four square to all the winds that blew. There were no trees, only a stretching expanse of prairie that merged into whiteâ€" topped mountains on the west and meeting the sky on the east in an unbroken horizon. A few homesteaders were straggling in. Old cattlemen, trying to save their great range, were spreading stories that farming could never be a success in Southern Alberta. w t will prove more ‘convenient and satisfactory for you all round The price will not be any more, and it often will be something less, than charged by outside firms for a less convenient service, A full line of samples may be seen at The Advance Office. Just call up Phone 26 and have these facts proved to your enâ€" tire satisfaction. Buy Your Counter Check Books in Timmins Irrigation in Southern Alberta VJ Urâ€"J For those who knew Southern Alberta in its infz:ncy, there is a pleasant surprise waiting. Wherever irriga« tion has touched, it is truly a country transformed. In the City of Lethbridge, around which most of the new irrigation development is proceeding, are treeâ€"lined streets, beautiful homes set in hedge enclosed lawns, and one of the finest little parks that Canada can boast. The city has been thoughtfully planned and symbolizes in its setting the spirit of a people pledged to permanency. tented people. There is yo "scratching in" or "soil mining." These are permanent homes on the threshold of a future bright with promise. Railway and other corporations had already developed tracts of land by irrigation. It was no experiment, and so a constructive policy of irrigation was commenced, backed by both Governments. It is in the train of irrigation that the new order of things is coming in Southern Alberta. Today as you drive over the prairie, through the irrigated â€"tracts of Strathmore and Brooks, south through the Bow River Project and on into Taber and Lethbridge, the flatness is broken on all sides by farmsteads that nestle among treesâ€"young trees growing taller and taller every year. Hedges are growing where once was barbed wire. Shrubbery is luxuriant. In the background are fields of Alfalfa, Indian Corn and Wheat. Dairy cows are seen on green pastures. The farms are small, but they are real farms, and the homes are smiling homes of conâ€" tented people. There is mp "scratching in" or "sail N""J w ie waflm@w.fl‘ sn in