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Shop Early â€" 4 Shopping Days Before Christmas Thursday, Dec. 19th, 1929 NOW IN STOCK 64 Spruce South Phone 32 for your supply. Prompt Attention to All Orders oal and Fuel Merchant PHONLE made the venture very ~profitable. There is no country more suitable to \fur farming than this North Land. ‘The quality of the fur "grown" here is said by experts to be superior to that raised in more southern places. The climate here, the cold dry atmosphere, give a lustre and richness to the fur. \ The example of the two settlers and | their mink farm near Allan Water may SETTLERS DOING WELL N BUSINESS OF MINK FARMING According to information given to The Advance last week two settlers on the Transcontinental line near Allan Water are doing well at the business of mink farming. They have made a reâ€" gular business of raising mink for the fur and their ability and interest has be taken up by other setitlers with sucâ€" cess. It would not seem to be out of piace for the Goverrnment to give asâ€" sis:ance in some form or another to fully qualified settlers who would like to take up such a sideâ€"line. At presâ€" ent loans are given for the purchase of live stock.. Why not some form of loan for a settler wishing to go into the fur business? The Advance knows, of course, that such a plan would need to be carefully considered and closely gcuarded to prevent abuse. But the Government is clever enough toâ€" work out some sort of plan. It goes without saying that the setitlers need some speâ€" cial assistance to given them a fait chance to make gcod. First of all they need roads, however! A despatch from Matheson last week says that recentiy fire partly destroyed the home of Mr. Edward Potter. A defective chimney is believed to have been the cause. The firemen were quickly to the scene and succeeded in saving the contents. The interior wasS badly damaged by smoke and water. Mr. Potter was absent from home. The family found shelter with neighbours. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Â¥e: to me the best and most live fact | of this (Silly Old Goose) history is , § ASSIST ROAD OPEN | TO KEEP COBALT ROA these one hundred and nine geese. This Recently efforts have been made by ‘one was tagged in 1918. Finding this Cobalt, Haileybury and New Liskearq |fact on the worn tag that this old to arrive at some arrangement with the | leader Pad carried for ten years, we Gcvernment to have the Ferguson| then stamjco . another tag with the highway connecting these three towns | year 1928, zr#4, after carefully clamping kept open during the winter months,| it on his otl.or leg. I took him in my with the Government contributing to | 2tms and praised him for his noble the cost of the necessary snowâ€"ploughâ€" ; leadership, then bld‘h‘r:‘. ggod luck and ing, ete. _ However, it would appear | goodâ€"bye and tossed hm into the air. that the desired arrangement will not | And last spring, 1939, this old leader be made. The Northern Development | 5> back guarding his family, and hunâ€" Branch is not prepared to pay 50 perâ€" | rgds of pe.ople sa‘:7 his two tags glitâ€" cent of ‘the cost of keeping the road tering on his legs. between here and New Liskeard open | Will you leaders plea > mt>p and conâ€" ali winter, Mayor Fred Sullivan has | sider the thcousands snd ‘"~susands | been informed in a copy of letter sent | upon thousands of hum~=n be‘ngs this | to A. J. Kennedy, ML.A.. from Hon. Silly old goose has had {~ in | William Finlayson, Minister of Lands|order to exist? Yes, hurn of aifâ€" | and Forests. Mr. Finlayson had been : ferent types wherever he c s: from | asked by th> mayors of the towns |the Englishâ€"speaking 1 in the | through Mr. Kennedy, if he would conâ€" ;south, hidden in sunken blinds ratiirâ€" | sider a suggestion/t.hat the province f ally covered with rushes, and live de and the municipalities share equally in coys honking to him in his own lan_ ; the cost of keepinz the road ploughed.|guage; then as he goes to the corn | The minister, in his reply, states that fields to feed, this same class of sportsâ€" | AA 4i 2y » l s e e csmmsn in s i ues it mc ns ce en tm instms to accede to the request would be to f man are hidden in corn shacks with all create precedent which would affect kinds cf decoys and tempting bait to . seriously the amount of money availâ€" ‘lure him within range of the deadlyl able for work on the roads in the sumâ€" | automatic shct guns that have a / mer, as cther towns would probably deathly killing circle of thirty inches | feel they had an equal claim on the at forty yard‘s distance. Then on his provincial treasury for this purpose. 'retum,to nesting grounds, the hungry ABOUT GHRISTMAS PIES, MINGE, PUMPKIN AND APPLE Story of the Significance of Mince P as a Christmas Dainty. Recipe for the Mincemeat and the Making of the Pie. Barbara B. Brojks, the noted domesâ€" tic science expert, this week contriâ€" butes the following seasonable article for The Advance‘s Christmas number: This is the season for pies and the three leading in popularity are mince, pumpkin and apple. By this time most people have stock of mincemeat. homeâ€" made or commercial, stored ready for use, but we are including recipe for those who have not yet had time to get theirs ready. _A current magazine tells a pretty story about mince pies: An oldâ€"timer the other day told The Advance that he had never known ‘"‘green Christmas‘"‘ in this North Counâ€", |\ try. Other oldâ€"timers agree with this. | All are agreed that there have been ‘years when the weather for Christmas !was very mild, but there was always |some snow. "At least we have had white slush for Christmas" was the way one oldâ€"timer put it.. There were many times when it looked as if there might "The Christmas pies were first made to commemorate the birth of the Christ Child. The plate on which the pie was made represented the mamager, the meat and fruit were there, as those brought by the Wise Men; and the upâ€" per crust represented the clothes thiat were wrapped about the baby Christ." crumbs. T more flufly Mincemeat 4 lbs. legn beef, 2 Ihs. beof suet, Haidâ€" win apples, 3 lbs. sugar, 2«cups$ molasses, 2 quarts cider, 4 lbs. raisins, sesded and cut in pieces, 3 lbs. currents, i 1b. finely cut citron, 1 quart fruit juice, 1 tablespoon cinnamon and mace, 1 tablespson powdered clove, 2 grated nutmegs, 1 teaspoon .p°epDetr, salt to taste. Pumpkin and apple pies have become part of Christmas Cheer because this vagetable and fruit are available and because everyzcne likes them. A deliâ€" cious variation of the pumpkin filling is to add to it twa cups of cornflake The secret of pie is plenty of sugar and a long, slow baking to make the juice syrupy. Start the baking in a ho oven (450° F.) to set the crust ani keop it from soaking. Reduce the hea‘ to 250° F. and bake until juicy and Cover meat and suet with boiling water and cook until tender, cool in water in which they are cooked; the suet will rise to top, forming a cake of fat, which may easily be removed. Firely chop meat, and add is ty twic2 the amount of finely chopped apples. The apples should be quartered, cored and pared, previous to chopping, or <k‘n; may be left on, which is rot an objection if apples are finely chopped. Add sugar, mo‘lasses, cider, raisins, curâ€" r>y‘s and citron; also suet, and stock in mea‘t and suet were cooked, reâ€" duced to one and oneâ€"half cups. Heat gradually, gir occasionally. and cook dlowly two _}gours; then add fruit juice and spices, gnd cook onseâ€"half hour. be a green Christmas but before Dec.| 25th there was sure to be enough snow | to make the holiday season white. The | year 1914 was one year when people | thought the snow might stay off until! after Christmas. A paragraph reproâ€" | duced in The North Bay Nugget last week from The Nugget of Dec.{ 14th, 1914, said:â€"‘"Anticipation of j creen Christmas for Northern Ont,ario‘ were given a rude shock this morning when the Snow Quesn, after some conâ€" sderable delay, dropped her mantle over | the entire North Country. This mornâ€" ing the snow is about two inches deepf while the roeads, in parts, owing to drifting, are quite bare. The temperaâ€" ture was exactly zero early this mornâ€" ing." yORTN LAND HAS NEVER HAD GREEN CHRISTMAS, IT IS SAID ‘The texturse is changed and is HAVE FORMED MATTAGAMI HOCKEY LEAGUE IN NORTH Cochrane, Kapuskasing and Smooth Rock Falls Have Started Indepenâ€" dent League. Expect Fine Sport During the Present Season. Cochrane, Smooth Rock Falls and Kapuskasing have organized a hockey league and expect a big season in the sport. The ultimate intention is to affiliats with the Northern Ontario Hockey Association, but for the present it is felt that this is not possible as the towns have to use open air rinks apd the N.O.H.A. does not favour the: inclusion of towns that are without the proper accommodation for hockey. The three townsâ€"Cochrane, Kapuskasing and Smooth Rock Falls, however, hope all to have covered rinks before very long and then they will join up with the NOH.A. In the meantime they will operate as an independent league of their own. The three towns deâ€" serve all sorts of praise for their inâ€" terest and effort for hockey and any encouragement possible to give them by anybody interested in sport should be freely given. A correspondent writing from Smooth Rock Falls about the Mattagami Hockey League says:â€" Delegates from the towns of Cochâ€" rane, Kapuskasing and Smooth Rock Falls met at Cochrane on December 7th, and organized the Mattagami Hocâ€" key League. It is the intention of the league to operate independently until the three towns have cevered rinks and then affiliate with the N.O.H.A. For the first year at least each town plans to enter Intermediate and Juvenâ€" ile teams playing a sixâ€"game schedule in competition for the Atkinson Cup, which has been offered to the leagre by "Spike‘"‘ Atkinson, of Smooth Roc, an ardent hockey fan. The officers are:â€" Hon Presidentâ€"Mr. E. 8. Noble, Kaâ€" puskasing. Hon. Viceâ€"presidentâ€"Mr. H. C. Atâ€" kinson, Smooth Rock Falls Hon. Viceâ€"president â€"Mr. A. V. Waters, Cochrane. Presidentâ€"Mr. George Nattress, Kaâ€" puskasing. Considerable enthusiasm was shown by the delegates, and it is expected that this year will be a banner year. There always has been rivalry between the three towns, in all forms of sport, and as this is the first time the three towns have formed a real league, some real hockey games are to follow. In addition to having the sixtyâ€"nine tags returned, out of the one hundred |and nine, I have eight others of them reported that the hunters failed to return. But there can be no doubt as lto these reports being genuine, for the hunters gave me the exact quotation that I put cn the tag. Therefore, we are compelled to believe that seventy_ seven of these old honkers have been shot and gathered by us hunters. To me, this does not only speak well of my tagging system, but it speaks praises for the coâ€"operation of the Ic;)"rtsmen of North America. Viceâ€"President â€"â€" Walter McCluskey, Ccochrane. Sec.â€"Treasurer â€" Charles McMartin Smooth Rock. Wellâ€"Known Canadian Nature Lover Writes About Some of the "Silly Old Geese" he has Known in the Last Several Years. THE SLY 010 6008E, AS |2 viEWED BV JACK MINER Friend Jack Miner, the noted nature lover writes The Advance the following article under the‘ title, "The Silly Old Goose":â€" Yes, 1 am trying to figure out who the silly old goose is, for it took my little singleâ€"cylinder brain seven years to outwit him, to catch him and place a tag on his leg, but during that time, which was between 1915 and 1922, I did manage to catch, tag and liberate cne hundred and nine, and sixtyâ€"nine of these are now back in my possession, for yvesterday‘s mail brought one from New Brunswick. This tag was put on in April, 1921, and the goose was shot last week by Mr. J. Simon Harper, of Miscou Harbour, New Brunswick. » and conâ€" "‘*susands be‘ngs this ~â€"c:rwit in *rs of difâ€" c sz from Indian and Eskimos are anxiously waiting his arrival with all kinds of weapons, including the bow and arrow. Thus as he returns south every fall, if he does stop for a mouthful of food, he is pointed at. The fact that he has crossed the conâ€" tinent twentyâ€"two times since I first caught him makes me admire him, and causes me to laugh at us humanity for calling him silly, when there never was * C usns snn a * # *#. @. .® v* .OQ.“ #0 *4 “.‘.....“‘ *# “..4 # # #4 # * #* #4 ® # #@ *# *4 # # *4 ® 4 *4 + *4 *4 #+, # Li #4 ® # #4 ® # #* * # #4 * + #4 *4 # < #* + #4 *# # #* *4 *# * *4 *# + *# *# # *# do *# # + @4# € 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 S 5 n t ts t S *A T o o o o o o e 05 35 N5 05 1505 10 1005100513 451535 15 10 5 4 54 zzm We have arranged to bake a “SPECIAL TREAT" for our customers every day, in addition to our regular linesâ€"Let us help you plan your menu. 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