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As an entertainment feature the Week of Wonders proved a regular wonder. There was something to apâ€" peal to everybody. All features were excellent and the various contests were particularly good. ‘The Legion Sketch Party proved especially effective and added greatly to the general pleasure by the sketches and novelties given. The various games were very popular, the prizes all good, and everybody apâ€" parently well satisfied all the way around. There were a number of very interesting booths with pleasing disâ€" plays of merchandise, etc. The several cooking displays, representing the culâ€" inary skill of several nations were oriâ€" ginal and attracted much attention. The greasy pole and rope, the greasy pig, adult kiddie car race, mouth organ contest, push cycle obstacle race,‘ etc., all added to the fun. The boxing on Wednesday night proved a particularly notable programme. FPurther referâ€" ence to the boxing is made elsewhere in this issue. Then there was the Palm Tea Garden, fish pond for the kiddies, refreshment booth, peanut and popâ€" gorn stands, etc., etc., with the work of the Ladies® Auxiliary in these lines of very material service. The Timmins Citizens‘ Band appeared each night and rendered a number of selections. All through the week the Legion‘s Week of Wonders proved a particularly happy and successful event. Popular demand is likely to make it a regular annual event. The Week of Wonders presented by the Timmins branch of the Canadian Legion closed last Saturday night in a regular "blaze of glory" so far as all sorts of success were® considered. It lived up to its name all through the week and was as designated a "week of wonders." There were over a thousand present for the closing night. The total attendance for the week reached past the four thousand mark. From the financial standpoint the Legion did well and will net a neat sum to add to their relief fund. This was accomâ€" plished, despite counter attractions, the generally accepted financial stringency in the country and all the other drawâ€" backs. Much credit is due the officers and members of the Legion and the Ladies‘ Auxiliary for the success atâ€" tained. BANQUET TO WINNERS AND _ RUNNERSâ€"UP IN His many friends are pleased to see Geo. Sheridan able to be out and arcund again after the recent accident in which he was injured when a board on his wagon tipped up and threw him heavily to the ground. He had to.spend some time in hospital as a consequence; but is now fully recovered again. W. L. Booth, of the Tipâ€"Top Tailors, was thanked sincerely for the handâ€" some trophy he has donated for comâ€" petition in softball for Timmins teams only. The Tipâ€"Top trophy was duly received by A. Portelance, as manager of the Holly Stores team, the winners for this year. S. C. Platus won the Boyd Memorial Cup as the most valuable player. With the goes a suitable medal which Mr. Platus will return, while he will hold the cup for a year. In acknowâ€" ledging the presentation Mr. Platus made a neat address on the season‘s softball. Among those present as specially honoured guests for the evening was H. Gold, president of the District of Cochâ€" rane Softball Association. OVER FOUR THOUSAND VISHT LEGION‘S WEEK OF WUNW‘S Event Last Week a Most Delightful Entertainment Feature and Also Very Satisfactory from the Financial Standpoint. Legion to be Comâ€" mended. At the Radio Cafe on Sunday evenâ€" ing.some sixty guests were present at a bangquet given by the Timmins Softâ€" ball Association in honour of the winâ€" ners of the district honours in the game. The winners of the district championship, the Holly Stores team, and the runnersâ€"up, the Shamrocks, of Ansonville, were the guests of the Timmins association for the occasion. J, W. Faithful, president of the Timâ€" mins Softball Association during the present very successful season, presidâ€" ed at the banquet in his usual happy and able way, and needless to say al: present had a very enjoyable time. The bangquet prepared by the Radio Cafe was an excellent one and reflectâ€" ed credit on the cafe as well as making the basis for a delightful evening for the softball artists. Special features of the evering were the formal presentation of t#ophies for the season. C. G. Keddie, on beâ€" half of the Holly Stores team, received the Marshallâ€"Ecclestone trophy, and in expressing the thanks of the team he spioke very appropriately about the benefit of sport in general and of softâ€" ball in particular. a Over Sixty Guests Present at Event at Radio Cafe. W. L. Booth Presents Trophy for Competition Among Timmin; Teams. VoI. XV. No. 57 «it l Pn PAID CIRCULATION LAST WEEK 3008 2 Sections â€" 16 Pages The annual report of the secretary here for the year 1929 showed that last year the V.O.N. nurse, Miss Eliott, atâ€" tended 246 cases, making 2386 calls. Of these visits 113 were free, including the necessary calls for five maternity cases. In addition there were many other calls that were only partially paid for by those benefitting. The financing of the work is done by the use of the fees, a grant from the town council, and the tag day and other doâ€" nations received.. Last year the runâ€" ning expenses amounted to $2329.98, while from fee, donations, tag day, etc., a total of $2637.81 was received, leavâ€" ,ipg a balance on the right side of $307.83 to carry on the work for the present year. Of the fees collected, some $1127.00, the Metropolitan Insurâ€" ance Co. paid $540.65. This insurance company gives all thoseâ€"insured in its company free nursing service through the V.O.N., the company paying the fees. The donations last year, includâ€" inz the council‘s grant, tag day, etc., ctalled $1509.91. During 1929 the V. O.N. turned in the old car used and secured a new one of higher power. Telephone service was also installed for the nurse‘s convenience and for the benefit of the public, at the nurse‘s residence. Thé St. John Ambulance Brigade advised the V.O.N.â€"last year that the brigade had certain appliances and equirrmment and supplies which can be used by the nurse when needed if available at the time. vices at fees within the reach of all. The idea is that no one should need to go wilhout nursing service, At the same time, the is to preserve the independence of those benefited. If people can pay the regular charges for the service which are kept at a moderate rate, they do so. If they can pay only a part of the fee, this is accepted; and if they are to pay at all, the service is still given. In Timmins the Victorian Order of Nurses has filled a great need. The V.O.N. nurse here has been kept very busy ali the time. There are a great many free cases and many others below cost, but the service is always given irresprective of this. In the line of maternity cases the work alone is worth much rmore than it costs the town. In minor acâ€" cidents and recurring illnesses the same may be said to be true. Anyone who will investigate the good work done by the V.O.N. here will be convinced that the crganization deserves the best posâ€" sible suppoy and is worth far more to the people of the town than it may cost. For the financing of the work this year it is planned to hold a tag day as noted on Tuesday next, Sept. 16th, and also to make a complete canvass of the business men of the town for donations and support. The cause seems to be a very worthy one. The V.N.O. is being conducted here in very helpful way and it would appear that all should give the fullest support to the canvass and the taz day next week. Victorian Order of Nurses Doing Excellent Work Here The work here is under the direction of a committee composed of prominent men and women of the town who are generously giving of their time and effort to assure the V.O.N. nursing serâ€" vice to the town. Adam McGrath, cf Detroit, an old resident of the camp, is here visiting friends. The annual tag day of the Victorian Order of Nurses is to be held here on Tuesday of next week, Sept. 16th. The people of the town should give this worthy cause the strongest support for the V.O.N. is cortainly an asset to the town. It provides needed nursing serâ€" Organization Providing Nursing Service at Fees Within Reach of All. Many Free Cases. Victorian Order of Nurses Deserves the Best Support of All. Annual Tag Day to be Held on Tuesday of Next Week, Sept. 16th. Everybody Should Give a Hand to Make it a Success. Anyone interested in improving their vocational chances or bettering their position, or reviewing former studies may secure further particulars in reâ€" gard to the evening classes by seeing S. E. Henry. principal of the Timmins high school or H. C. Garner, secretary, 254 Fourth avenue. Any subject in the above list will be cancelled if a sufficient number of apâ€" plications for that course is not receivâ€" ed. On the other hand, instruction in any approved subject not on the above list will be given if a sufficient number of applications is received. EVENING CLASSES AGAIN DFFER AlD 10 BETTERMENT The subjects in which instruction will be given include the following courses: English for foreigners and nonâ€"Engâ€" lish speaking students; English for adâ€" vanced students (second and third year students); French, conversational and business; arithmetic; presprcting and geclogy; chemistry and assaying; busiâ€" ness courses, including typewriting and stenography, and bookkeeping and busiâ€" ness practice; machine shop practice; woodâ€"working shop practice; practical and theoretical electricity; cooking; sewing and dressmaking. A general invitation is extended to everybody to attend the College Stuâ€" dents‘ Farewell Dance, in honour of the departing students who have spent the summer in the Porcupine camp. In extending the invitation to everyâ€" Evening classes are again announced as to be held in connection with the Timmins high school during the coming winter. These nijkht classes offer a wonderful opportunity for the improveâ€" ment of educational advantages, the review of subjects taken up in school or college and the perfecting of one‘s knowledge in certain vocational lines. In pust years these classes have provâ€" ed of great value indeed. The evening vocationai classes for the term 1930â€"1931 will be opened in the hish school, Timmins, on Monday evening, Oct. 6th and will continue unâ€" til Easter, 1931. tudents may enrol for any of the courses by calling at the principal‘s office at the high school from 7.30 to 9 o‘clock Sept. 29th to Oct. 3rd. All the classes will be in charge of trained teachers duly qualified to give instrucâ€" tion in the subjects dealt with. The school is very completely equipped in all departments to meet the requireâ€" ments of all the courses offered. A miniumum fee of $3.00 will be charged for each subject taken, but this fee will be returned at the end of the term to students attending seventy per cent. of the lessons. FAREWELL DANCE INX HONOUR OF COLLEGE STUDENTS HERE Night Vocational Classes at Timmins High School Give Excellent Chance for Education for the Improveâ€" ment of Anyone‘s Posiiion. body to come to this dance there is the implication that everybody will have a jolly good time. The College Students‘ Farewell Dance is to be held at the Mcâ€" Intyre Recreation hall, Shumacher, on Friday evening of this week, Sept. 12th. Dancing will be from 9.30 to 2.30. Tomâ€" my Stephens and his able orchestra will provide plenty of catchy, "dancy‘ music. Those in charge of the arrangeâ€" ments have planned to make this one of the events of the season. Mrs. A. H. Brown, of New Liskeard is the guest of J. L. Brown and fa.mlly in town. TIMMINS, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th, 1930 10 FINISH TRANSâ€"GANADA HIGHWAY, SAYS PREMIER Part of Scheme Promptly Adopted to Relieve Unemployment. Work for 25,000 Wilhin Three Weeks. Resclution for $20.000,000 to be Spen!. Last night the Timmins fire brigade had a telephone call to a fire outside the town limits, the blaze being in a shed of the Union Coal Company, across the bridge. The fire was too far away from the nearest town hydrant for the water to be turned on it with any effect, so the Timmins firemen did the next best thing; they held the fire down by the use of chemicals until the fire rangers could reach the scene with their pumps. From up town the blaze could be seen, and the fire could actually be watched dying down as the firemen got in their good work with the chemical tanks. The big tank was used and two of the smaller tanks and as a result the fire was so checked that not only was the blaze practically conâ€" fined to the shed in which it started but also the fire was so checked and controlled that when the fire rangers arrived with their pumps there was little difficulty experienced in finally quenching the fire. The fire rangers soon had three streams of water on the fire and showed their capability and effectiveness by the promptness with which they extinguished the fire. FRE NEAR TOWN GHEGKED THL FHRE RANGERS GOME The crigin otf the nre is not known, but it apparently started in a shed adâ€" joining the ice house. The fire caught on one side of the ice house which is a large building, but. the fireâ€"fighters stopped the spread of the blaze and the fire was eventually put out without serious loss, though the shed in which it started was destroyed. The incident proved the skill and worth of both the Timmins firemen and the fire rangers. Ottawa, September l1th (by Arihus E. Moysey Co. Private Wire)â€"Work within three weeks for between 25,000 and 30,.000 unemployed and sustenance for twice that many dependents wili be provided, Premier R. B. Bennett believes by the $20,000,000 relief resoluâ€" tion which he introduced today in the House of Commons. Declaring that the government proposed "work, not charity‘" for the unemployed, the preâ€" mier informed the house what the $20,â€" 000,000 would do. It would be used, he said, to complete the Transâ€"Canada highway, to cover the excess costs in the construction of Federal, Provincial and Municipial Public \Works and posâ€" sibly of railway branch line construcâ€" tion and for any necessary assistance to the â€"marketing of the products of land, forest, sea and mine. Timmins Firemen do Effective Work With Chemicals on Blaze Across River and Outside the Fire Limits of the Town. The final game of a very busy and interesting football season will take place on Sturday at the Timmins athletic grounds, the game being beâ€" tween the McIntyre and Dome. The game will be for possession of the Dickâ€" son Cup. Football supporters will reâ€" call the spendid games these two teams have played during the season when they have met. The Boxer Cup series gave the fans something to talk about for weeks and now these rivals meet in ancther final. The game should draw a bog crowd as it will ring down the curtain for 1930. The kickâ€"off is billed for 5.30 p.m. McINTYRE AND DOME TO PLAY FOR DICKSON CUP %pl ne 2\ bance The St. Louis Junior Baseball team had an easy win over the Timmins Junicrs at the ball grounds here yesterâ€" day and as a result the clever Sudbury lads will carry the baseball banner of the North to the citadels of further honcurs in the south. Those who saw the game here last night will hope and expect that the Sudbury lads will do well In any event they will reflect Dead Body of Newâ€"Born Child Sent Through Mails (Here Parcel Wrapped in Brown Paper Believed to Have Reen Posted in Outside Town. Mattagami Post Office"*dâ€" dress on Wrapper. Taken From Behind Post Ofl'"lce by Two Boys. â€" Police Working on the Case. Game Here a Case of the Best Team Winning. Errors That Were Costly Marred the Play of the Timmins Junier Baseball Team. credit Ncrth The Sudbury lads won here yesterâ€" day by the score of 15 to 3, the big score being due to costly errors by the Timmins players. In one innings four runs came in for Sudbury through the error route. Other errors during the game also added %o the score. Howâ€" ever, the general opinion is that it was a clear case of the best team winning. The Timmins Juniors have been giving some good exhibitions of baseball through the season and while there is naturally disappointed that a betâ€" ter showing was not made in the finals here, baseball fans will accept the reâ€" sult and look for better success next season. ANOTHER UNUSUALLY LARGE CUCUMBER GROWN IN TOWN M. J. Tinkess this morning showed The Advance a cucumber remarkable for size that was grown in his garden this year. The cucumber measured seventsen and a half inches in length and had a cirecumference of seven and a half inches. From these measureâ€" ments it will be seen that the cucumber was of nctable size. Despite its extra size, it is of fine appearance and qualiâ€" ty, and gives still further proof of the Another despatch says that the new mill«cught to be producing some time in October, probably late in the month Parts of it have already been turned over and tested. The plant contains a great deal of equipment reconditionâ€" ed from the remains of the old mill, and some of the machinery is set up on old foundations. Extra cyanidation and agitation takes the place of the stamps used in the old process. Toronto, September 10th (by Arthur E. Moysey Co., private wire)â€"An unâ€" confirmed report yesterday was in cirâ€" culation that Dome Mines had made a find on the Dome Extension property. Dome Mines has been concentrating on underground work since the fire which destroyed the mill about a year ago and the work has resulted in largely increasing the mine‘s ore reserves. It was recently reported that the company was developing a vein in the north end of the property on the twelfth level with favourable results. Good progress is being made in mill construction and it is expected that it will be operating by the scheduled time of November success that may be won here in marâ€" ket gardening by those who have the skill and will take the trouble to benzâ€" fit by the wonderful soil and climate of this part of the North. REPORTED FIND MADE ON DOME EXTENSIOX PROPERTY on the baseball talent of the On Thursday afternoon Constable W. McCord of the Timmins police force recovered the badly decomposed body of a newâ€"born child from an old deliâ€" very wagon in the lane between Cedar and Balsam streets. The body was wrapped in copies of La Presse, of Montreal, and The Montreal Star of l July 3rd, 1930, with a brown paper wrapper on â€"which was written in two places the address: "Bidjimin | Lachaine, Mattagami Post Office, Timâ€"| mins, Ont." Later it was found thatâ€" the parcel had been placed in the wagon by two boys who had gotten it from the platform behind the Timmins post office. Also it was found that the parcel had been sent through the mails,‘ most probably from some outside point. ‘ Constable McCord was coming on: duty when he noticed a boy who hasi been in very frequent trcuble for some | time past, loitering in the lane. He| questioned the lad as to what he was| doing and ‘eventually the boy, who is | about twelve years old, told about the parcel he had found. At first the lad said that he had found the parcel in the lane, but under the kindly examinâ€" l ation of Constable McCord he told; about taking it from the platform be-i hind the new post office. The otheri lad was located and then the two boys | frankly told what they knew about the | parcel. They said they noticed it beâ€"! hind the post office and thought it | might contain toys or something else | $ play with and so they took it away with them. When they cpened it in the lane and discovered what it conâ€" tained they placed it in the wagon until they could tell the authorities. The one lad said that there was a lot of stamps on the parcel but that these had rubbed off while carrying the parâ€" cel through the lane, the wrapper being damp. Enquiry at the post office here reâ€"| sulted, in confirmation of the fact that | there hag been such a parcel come through the mails It had gone in the l first place some weeks ago to the Matâ€" | tagami post office. The puostmaster | there remembered it. He was unable ; to find anyone of the name on the parâ€" | cel and when an odor started to come ! from the parcel, he returned it to t.h_ei main post office at Timmins. The Timmins postmaster sought to locate the person addressed but was not able to do so. The odor was so bad froml the parcel by this time that it was placâ€" ed outside on the platform at the rea: ( of the post office. The postmaster exâ€"| plains this procedure by saying that:l the parcel had to be held a specified time before it could be sent to tne dead letter office and as the odor was| bad the parcel was placed outside unâ€"| til such time as it could be sent away. The postmaster thought the parcel contained a fowl or perhaps some coase meat. The postmaster at Matâ€" | tagami postoffice is of the opinion that the prircel was nosted somewhere outâ€" | side of the 20â€"mile limit on account of ; the number of stamps that were on it | when he saw it. The most careful | search of the laneways has failed tol bring to light the stamps that fell from f the parcel when the boys had it. The| Mattagzgami postmaster‘s recollection is that there was no post ofilcs stamp : showing on the parcel, the cancellationl being more of a smudge. | In opening the investigation Conâ€" stable McCord did excellent work and was able to pressnt many promising clues that may result in the solving of the mystery. The local police, howâ€" ever, felt that the matter of the clue to the reoint of mailing was the most important one and that this being outâ€" side of their jurisdiction the case should be handed over to the provincial police whose wider organization would have a better chance of solving the mystery. The provincial police accotrdingly are working on the case and have made some progress and are in hopes of disâ€" {PAID CIiRCuLATION LAsST| WEEK 3008 ( The Porcupine Fair at Porcupine on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week was a notable success in every way. The attendance was good, while the exâ€" [hibits, both as regards quality and number were worthy of special menâ€" 'tion. In many lines, such as vegeâ€" tables, for intsance, the exhibits were of the type that made the oldâ€"time fair so interesting. One squash shown, for _ example, was an immense specimen, the kind that will be talked about for days. iSome of the vegetables exhibited bpy _M. J. Tinkess were also remarkable for isize and quality. In the fancy work and cooking departments the number ‘and excellence of the exhibits. also deâ€" serves special mention. Practically all |classes were well represented and tic | general impression of visitors to the fair was that the officials and the exhibitors ia.like deserve great credit for the 1930 | fair. There were many present from ‘Timmins and adjacent towns, both as i exhibitors and spectators. BOXING AND WRESTLING 10 BF ATTRACTION AT BAZAAR A notable programme of boxing and wrestling is promised as a special feaâ€" ture in connection with the bazaar unâ€" der the auspices of the Ladies of the Church of the Nativity next week. The bazaar will be held on Tuesday, Wedâ€" nesday and Thursday, Sept. 16th, 17th and 18th, in the skating rink and it will be an event of particular interest. The programme of boxing and wrest!â€" ing will be presented on Wednesday evening, Sept. 17th, and this special feature will no doubt attract a large attendance. Ladies of the Church of the Nativity Giving Special Feature to Bazaar in Rink Next Week. _ Notable Programme of Boxing and Wrestling on Sept. 17th. The programme is going to be a clean and attractive exhibition of good boxâ€" ing and equally good wrestling. There will be different styles of wrestling, these including the Cumberland style, the Westmoreland style,. "catchâ€"asâ€" catchâ€"can," Cornish wrestling and other styles in the sport. Each type of wrestling has a number of expert wrestlers in the camp and some keen competitions may be expected. ‘The boxing is being arranged by Scotty Wilson (the barber), and he has arranged for classy bouts between wellâ€" known boxers. There will be poruilar and able boxers from Kirkland Lake and Iroquois Falls and other towns in the district, while the experts in Timâ€" mins will not be overlooked. Roy Hamilton, young Richard and other capable boxers here will be on the proâ€" gramme, while arrangements are being completed to have a number of the leaders in Kirkland Lake and Iroquois Falls at the event here on Wednesday evening next. There will be a revised scale of charges for admission to meet the popular demand and the best interests of sport in the district, as the anâ€" nouncement elsewhere in this issue points out. NOTABLE EXHIBITS AT THE rorcurine FAIR Th WeAt _ Good Attendance at Event. Fair for 1930 a Good Success. Fancy Work and Cooking â€" Exhibits Specially Good. The Advance will publish a complete list of the prize winners as soon AS this is available. PLAYâ€"DOWNS IN N.O.W.S.A. AT SCHUMACHER SATURDAY Just before going to press The Adâ€" vance learns that in the playdowns for the Northern Ontario Women‘s Softball Association Cochrane ladies are to play the McIntyre Excelsiors at Schumaâ€" cher on Saturday, Sept. 13th, commencâ€" ing at 4 pm. sharp. This should be a game decidedly well worth seeing and no softball fan should miss it All will regret that Chas. J. Pearce, timeâ€"keeper of the McIntyre mill conâ€" struction, who had his skull fractured some weeks ago when he fell while at his duties, is seriously ill at the hosâ€" pital here and fears entertained for his recovery. covering all the facts of the case. There are several clues that are being followed up. It is the idea of the police that the body was mailed by some reâ€" lative or friend of the mother of the child and addressed as it was to spite the man addressed. The post mortem revealed the fact that the child was stillâ€"born, and so there will be no murâ€" der case, the lesser charge of neglectâ€" ing to provide proper burial possibly being the most serious charge likely in case the facts of the case are discoverâ€" ed. The police believe the parcel came from some town not farther away than Kirkland Lake or Ansonville or Cochâ€" rane, and that if the identity of the man to whom the parcel was addressâ€" ed is discovered the solution of the mystery will likely be in sight, Anyâ€" one who can give the police any inforâ€" mation likely to bear directly or inâ€" directly on the case should do so gladly as a matter of good citizenship and common humanity.