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66 B 0 Q@9040004804060006000060060000000000800¢ 0 If you break your Electric Light just come to @ P. Antoine 39 FOURTH AVENUE OPPOSITE FIRE HALL ICE CREAM Boft Drinks, Tobacco, Cigars, Cigâ€" You know where you can get the ‘See our Windows for T his Week‘s .Specials D. LAPRAIRIE Corner Third Avenue and Birch Street Phone 24 â€" Timmins Corner Third Ave. and Birch St. PHONE 24 For anything in Watches, Clocks, Silverware, Chinaware, Crown Derby, Cut G@lass, Etc., it will pay you to come to 25 Third Ave., @O80600800000000000000000000000000000000 000000000 FRANK BYCK : Watch and:Jewelry Repairing Promptly and Efficiently Attended to. Frank Byck Between the Hollinger Stores Systems installed Statements prepared Books kept for merchants not reâ€" quiring full time bookâ€"keeper. Frank Y. Uttley from pure, choice, selected meats are our sausages. We want you to try them, for we know yor will say they are the best country pork sausages you ever ate. ~Our frankfurters also are of best quality. â€" MADE WITH GREAT CARE ROOM 2, GORDON BLOCK Timmins, Ont. 56 THIRD AVENUE while banks and various legal instituâ€" tions\had ‘"‘times‘‘ of their own. There are official records of railway stations having as many as three clocks in the waiting room, each set at variance with the others and each asserting its claims for correctness. This confusion arose from using the ‘‘mean noon,‘‘ or the time at which the sun passed directly overhead, as a basis of reckoning. Mean time is well enough for local purposes but even a few miles away the sun would not ‘be overhead at the same instant. The variation is four minutes later for every degree of longtitude toward the west, and it was in the attemp}t to keeip in the race with the sun that the confusion arose. Sir Sanford‘s PrOpoéals Sir Sanford Fleming proposed a divisionâ€"of the earth into twentyâ€"four sections, or time belts, each fifteen deâ€" grees in width. There was to be: a »rime, or starting meridian, and this great Canadian mathematician and engineer, who gave to the world its present system of Standard Time. ingzton. The conference found the idea sound and practical and Standâ€" ard Time became legal throughout a vast portion of the earth in the year 1884. E Previous to this the reckoning of time generally was a bedlam. The rapid railroad construction in Europe and on this continent had also witâ€" nessed the introduction of numerous ‘"‘"times‘‘ by the various railway and telegraph companies. Some raillways had as many as three different time systems â€" operating _ simultaneously, Standard Achievementsâ€" It is a difficult matter for those of the present generation to understand the confusion regarding the matter of time that existed throughout the civilâ€" ized aworld prior to the year 1880. The.smooth working of _ Standard Time across the world is the invention of a Canadian mathematician, Sir Sanford Fleming. In the year 1879 he laid his proposals before the Canâ€" There are many achievements attributable to men who lived in Canada and were in the true sense Canadians. In addition to other great discoveries and accomplishments recently recorded in the press, the following originated in Canada :â€" THE FIRST ATLANTIC STEAMBOAT CALCIUM CARBIDE THE SUBMARINE CABLE COMMERCIAL HELIUM THE TELEPHONE STANDARD TIME THE ELBCTURIC RALLWAY MARQUIS WHEAT THE ELECTRIC STOVE THE SLBBPING CAR Many of the readers of The Advance do not know Canada‘s part in these achievements. ‘Those who have some kno‘wledge of them will appreciate this interesting series of articles, refreshing memory and adding to a just pride in this country and its potential wealth of brains, ability and determination. AS SIR SANFORD FLEMING, the THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO reed to pressut )nl n1 ot JC Jalp ste( T tha the YJV ear 1879 the .Canâ€" nd withâ€" rad been UunIrie: for th 1C 11 stopping scehool and save me, * says the officer, * to save yourself,. ed the troubled out and roll. dered the officet ing till I tell yo be saved â€" ali rolled manfully About three o‘clock Friday. mornâ€" ing, the police heard someone yelling on the slimes awecross from the station and â€" promiptly . investigated. They found a wellâ€"known character of the Camp in dire straits.. He had been feeling friendly and carefree, and wandered across the old lake and eventually stepped into a mudâ€"hole. In trying to get his feet out, he simply stumibled in the deeper. Then he got down on his hands and knees and the more he struggled the furâ€" ther he got down in the mud. There was more than a fair chancee of the man finding his grave in the mud. But he had no intention of being buried thus ‘‘unwept, unhonored and unsung.‘‘* He was too much occeupied with tryinge to save kimself to think but he looked after the ‘‘iweeping‘‘ and he certainly ‘‘sung‘‘ his troubles to the world. He could tbe heard for blocks and ‘blocks away calling for help in his time of need. He had a good voice, too, for the purpose. When Officer ‘Parcher arrived on the scene, the oldâ€"timer wanted him to go out to his assistance. **Come out and save me,"‘‘ he »begged., ‘*No," ing been tired easily. ‘The olfhicer kept rolling, however, until eventually rolled to safety, and Officers Par and Orr were able to get him t the rolling 300 mounds NARROW ESCAPE FROM MUD DROWING BY LOCAL MAN WwOI tha mathematically under the transit at the (ireenwich Royal Observatory, which was to be marked ‘"0‘"‘ as a starting point. All time ‘between the various meridians marking the time belts was to be similar, but as each new time belt was entered toward the west the time would ‘be advanced one € All Next Articleâ€"Marquis Wheat. UIL seems neâ€"re( () i W 1N en n TMSs 1 aimed proportior xhted _ B: Limited.) reckoning _ which > prevailed ) ‘the general legal use ‘of d Time, Sir Sanford Fleming is _ energy. to _ academical He was elected to high office lueen‘s University, Kingston, d also aided in the complicatâ€" ematical work that resulted e surveys forâ€" the railway the RKocky ‘Mountains. He Halifax in 1915. T 1Inst time unt O nhow He: éould there, howe if he had with hi TC AT 1Im€ ord t1 so simple and so smooth v, that it is hard to realiz us legal actions were en t the adoption of this sys e reckoning.«[These dis followed by laws makin: €£éTC mued furth intine{ simple that it 5 legal The ‘but I‘l tell you how *‘ He then instructt gentleman to stretch "Roll this way,"‘ orâ€" , ‘‘and keep on rollâ€" u to stop, and you \U] right,‘‘ The victim for time, ‘but he he officer kept him theâ€" mu«C l C 1 nin ‘ge T C ) IV € OnDean vernment oL is work, and of nuUWmnmnerou A" Land ns 11h ind country me of St exeention his efforts 1 dled metho« ind 1 V 6 1 V vorld Even t Colonial 1¢ 1( to fig%fi%%%fifi%fi%fi%fi%fi%flfififi%fifi%fifi%%fi%fi%fifigfi% BANK OF MONTREAL 4 \ Nta? _ "H 3A Reports on Canada‘s Crops Total Assets in Excess of $650,000,000.00 SULTS Porcupine Advance One Insertion costing you 50 cents in advance will bring you what you require At frequent intervals throughout the season the Bank of Montreal issues reports on the progress of the crops in Canada. 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