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§5§§$§xxss¢¢£~lxu..n..u..uxu8?"8”:Vvsfixésakiixuzvfixuxu . .8??? O. O. O... O... VVIJ v'â€" V’- â€"â€"v New Empire theatre was crowded for the occasion, and financial receipts were very satisfactory, and the pro- gramme was a unusually good one. The Fire Brigade received compliments on all sides for the success of the event. Encores had to be forbidden on ac- count of the length of the programme but the big crowd wanted to encore every number. Dr. J. A. McInn'i-s, may- or of Timmins, occupied the chair in his usual able way. The Timmin-s Citi- zens’ Band gave several numbers on the phogramme and these were greatly ap- preciated. A very pleasing chorus was given by a group of girls from Schu- macher. Mrs. Parker, who had trained these girls, played the piano accom- paniments for the numbers given, this being one item that the crowd refused to allow to pass without encore. despite all rules. Mrs. Parker won further laurels for herself by a solo presented later on the programme and also by her part in the duet with Ralph Calver- Ten years ago the Timmins Fire "gade presen'ted a. cancert that. we very decided success in every way. New Empire theatre was crowded ley. This was one of the popular num- bers on the programme Ralph Calver- ley being a very capable artist in hum- bers like this. Miss Selina Moses and Mary Daher also. won much applause for their due: Miss Mszes also sang “The Song of Hiawatha" in very pleas- ing way, while a solo by Miss Daher was equally appreciated. Solos by W. R. Dodge, Jas. Geils Alfred Snow. Miss Cre ig Hcggarmh Miss Mary Downey, Mrs. Teddi Frank Carnow, Miss Jean Roberts and others were delightful numbers on the big programme. Duets by Miss Mary Downey and Pat Downey, ewx’wowwxwxwrzMow-ow...:«:~:«:«:~:~:~:~:~:~:-¢~:~:~:~:~:~:w.«:~:~:~:~s:~:~:~:'o years ago the Tlmmins Fire 811- i and by Jas. Geils and Miss Jean Ro- presented a concert that was a berts were also excellent numbers. M. ecided success in every way. The Downey in step dances and on roller Empire theatre was CI‘OWdEd for ’skates proved a happy variety for the ccasion, and financial receipts evening’s programme. Wm. Lalnsbury very satisfactory. and the pro- made a very favourable impression with me was a unusually good one. his two readings. Frank Russell as a ’ire Brigade received compliments‘ juggler was one of the extra specials. sides for the success of the event. Morris Daher’s saxaphone solo was as had to be forbidden on ac- heartily applauded. The accompanists of the length of the programme for the evening were ’Gene Colombo. he big crowd wanted to encore Mrs. J. W. Faithful, Mrs. Parker and mmnm. hr .1 A. McInnis. may- I Mr. Carr. TEN YEARS AGO IN TIMMINS 17 Pine Street, North Humdrum lives take on a new glamour . . . under the in- fluence of lovely jewels. And a happy adornment of the per- son or the home can start at no moroappropriate time than Christmas. It is vsi‘ih p‘easure that we invitc 3'10! 10 select your gifts from our hoiiday assemblage of fine, modestly-priced Jewels. YOUR NAME “$23M FM on every Sheaffer Pen purchased here From We‘ll Hold All Gifts Until Christmas Time C. A. REMUS data In the Porcufiinc Advance Fyles. The Timmlns skating rink oi3ened for the 1920-1921 season on Dec. 6th, 1920. There was a big turnout for the occas- ion. The Timmins Citizens' Band fur- nished music for the evening. There was a bold robbery at. the Mo- Intyre Mercantile Company's store at Schumacher ten years ago. The door a: the rear was opened by the ex- pedient of boring holes all round the lock until that, piece of the door could be forced. The goods taken included furs, men’s clothing, sweaters, boots, necktie; and other articles, the loss to the store being around a. thousand dol- lars. The Advance ten years ago said:â€" “The innumerable friends in Timmins and the Porcupine learned this week with the sincerest regret of the death at Haileybury hospital of Alex C. Gil- lespie, one of the pioneers of he Por- cupine and well known all through the Ncrth Land. The later Mr. Gillespie came from Peterborough, Ont., and in the early days of the Porcupine was popular and prominent here, following the mining game as a contractor: In 1915 he enlisted in the Second Pioneers going overseas as a sergeant and later Silver Tea Service Sets Ladies' and Gen- tlemen’s Watches Necleiaces. Pen- dants, ‘Earrings, Chokers. Brace- lets. $1.00 and up .; 12. to $95. $8. to $125. COSTUME FREE Timmins winning a commission as a lieutenantl 0n rettn'ning to Canada he was placed| in charge of the Baldiers' Civil Re-‘ Establishment work at Cobalt and had. been connected with that work up to the time of his death. He had not en- joyed the best of health since his re- turn from overseas, but was not seri- ously ill until some days ago, when it was found necessary to take him to the Haileybury hospital, where he passed away on Monday morning of this week. The late Alex C. Gillespie was a popu- lar figure and much esteemed in the North Land. He had local fame as a runner, was well known in baseball and other sporting circles, and is business and social life was respected and highly regarded by all for his many high qualities. The funeral took place at Haileybury this week, the ceremonies being under Masonic auspices.” The T. N. 0. Railway commission visited Timmins ten years ago on one of their tours of inspection. The party includedzâ€"Geo. W. Lee, acting chair- ;man; W. H. Maund, the secretary- treasurer; Dr. Preston, one of the com- missioners, and Mr. Clements. The party went down the new spur line to the Mattagami river, this being the first time a private car was on this [spur line. At Haileybury, on Dec. 4th, 1920, Le- dar Mazur was found guilty of robbery with violence in connection with the hold-up of [the Connaught poolroom .u'ui'u-up UL WAD VVLLLqu54bV yvu ....... on Sept. 16th of the same year. He was sentenced to ten year’s imprison- ment for the crime. J. E. Cook made a very able defence, and when the con- viction was made he pleaded very elo- quently for leniency on account of the youth of Mazur and his previous good character. Judge Hartman, however, said that a very clear case had been made against the accused and that the crime was a particularly serious one: The evidence in the case showed that a friendly poker game was in progress at Ccnnaught when three masked men entered the room and ordered all to put up their hands and hand over their money. The trio had revolvers which they flourished to enforce their de- mands. Bot-h the proprietors of the poolroom were away and the place was really in charge of a couple of~ seven- teen-year-old boys. One of these was a brother of Mr. Racicot, one of thei proprietors. The fluid was forced to unlock the till so that the robbers might get the $600.00 which it contained. The , masked men also took about $300.00| more from the men gathered in the |poolrc-om at the time. One of the men whom the lad recognized as Mazur took ' $100.00 and his watch from him. The other boy was robbed of $17.00 which he had earned himself by working. The robbers did not scruple to add this boy's seventeen dollars to their loot. They left with dire threats as to what would happen if any attempt were‘ made to follow them. Mazur was arâ€" rested in Timmins some day-s after the hold-up and was positively identified as one of the hold-men by several Ofi these in the poclroom at the time of; the robbery.- Mazur’s defence was an alibi. He admitted being in Connaught ‘on the night of the robbery but claimed ‘ I he left on the 8 o’clock train for Por- quis Junction going there to Oochrane where he said he spent the nigh-t with a friend named Mike, whom he did not produce. Ray Swayne gave evidence that no tickets had been .sold to.Coch- ran from Porquis Junction on the oc- casion that Mazur claimed he had bought one. Further Mr. Swayne t sti- fied that he had noticed three men, one of whom he was sure was Mazur, hanging around the water tank after 10 o'clock on the night in question. Other witnesses swore to seeing Mazur after the train had gone. Despite the efforts of Mr. Cook none of the witnesses for the prosecution could be shaken in tleir evidence and Mazur was sentenc- ed accordingly. The Advance believed .that the heavy sentence would act as la deterrent to the held-up artists and that appeared to be the event. Previ- ous to this case there had been a num- ber of hold-ups and robberies, but this [form of crime seemed to stop in the }district after this salutary sentence. Ten years ago there was a meeting at Jchn Pox e: 5 hotel to adiscuss the qua“- tion of organizing the township of Mountjoy into a regular municipality. There was a large attendance of set- tlers and others and discussion at times was on a very lively scale. On the one hand the advantages of having Mount- joy an organized township was set forth. It was pointed out that if Mountfoy were a regular organized township. the people weuid have the benefit of handling their own affairs; they would have police protection; charge of their own roads; able to make public improvements and able to THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMI’NS, QNTARIO take action on questions of local im- portance on their own initiative. On the other hand, it was argued that the “overhead" of conducting a township would be too great; taxes would have to be featured, and many of the set- tlers felt that they had more than they could handle now; it was also urged that practically all the townships of the North Land had made the grave error of organizing too soon. The two sides held equally firmly to their opinions and the result was that the question was really shelved for the time being on account of the lack of agreement in the matter. Three Russians from Timmins were tried at Haileybury by Judge Hartman ten years ago on charges of assaulting a fellow countryman with intent to do him grievous bodily harm, Two of them were acquitted and the third man was sentenced to a year in jail. Bos- suby, the injured man. was a man six feet 4 inches tall and broad in propor- tion. He was badly battered up when found on street by the police. Chief Greer said the man was so horribly beaten that it fairly shocked him to see theinjured man. The walls and ceiling of the room in which the assault took place were literally sputered with blood. and anyone who saw the injured man were sure that it was only his immense size and strength that preventqd: him be- ing killed by the assault. J. E. Cook, appearing for the man who was con- victed, argued that the man was only defending his own home from the as- sault of the injured man who was not sober. The jddge retorted- 'that the accused had used altogether too much force and aggressiveness and the sen- tence of one year with hard labour fol- lowed as a deterrent to foreigners or others who might be tempted to take the law into their own hands, using hammers, chairs and clubs, as was said to have been done in this case. Ten years ago in an editorial article The Advance queried the Drury Gov- ernment as to Why no chairman had been appointed to the T. N. O. Rail- way Commission to succeed the late J. L. Englehart. Mr. Geo. W. Lee was acting chairman and carrying the du- ties of the office in excellent way, but he was much handicapped by lack of full authority. He had greatly im-' proved the service, but The Advance believed 'he should be formally appoint- ed chairman and given due authority to carry out the improvements and gen- eral conduct of the railway in the peo- ple’s interest. It was unfair to the North as well as to Mr. Lee to saddle him with full responSibility and re- stricted authority. The Advance urged the permanent appointment of Mr. Lee as chairman. Ten years ago The Advance announc- ‘ ed the installation of electric lights at Kapuskasing. The power line was also . constructed out to the Experimental Farm. “The electric light plant at K'a- puskasing is only a temporary one and will be replaced by a more extended one for permanent use as progress is mad-,"e said The Advance, in referring to the visit of W. W. White, of Timmins, in- spector for the Hydro Electric. . who went to Kapuskasin-g to the first turn- ing on of “the juice” on Dec. lst, 1920. The Advance ten years ago was par- ticularly vicious at the hold-up men and other things who Operated here oc- casionally, these fellows not even re- specting the ladies, despite the fact that previously it had been the boast here that women and children were absolutely safe here at any hour of the ;day or night. Within a few weeks iseveral ladies were held up in the town land immediate district. One lady who !was motoring home was stopped by two- |men who demanded her money. She lsaid that she had left her purse at 'home. and after some muttered impre- lcations the lady was allowed to proceed I.on her way. A few days later a lady 3011 her way home down the River road iwas accosted by a lone highwayman. ;H-o roughly demanded her money. iWhen he found that she had only 50 9cents he cursed her roundly and threa- E tened to murder her. A very pleasing recital and dance was given by H. F. Schroeder and his pupils in the Masonic hall, Timmins. on Dec. 131:, 1920. There were talented piano selections by Miss Carlson. R. Johnson, Miss D. Porter and Mr. Schce- der. Violin solos by Miss Vorina La- porte, Harry Martin, Miss G. Carl-son, P. Pelvinti. Burton Holland, Jack Ma- lick, Jack Slotnick and H. F. Schroe- der were excellent. numbers. One of the special features of the programme was the duet by Misses Wright and Gowan. Morris Daher pleased all with his saxaphone selections, while the vi- olin duet by Eugene and Burton Hol- land was particularly appreciated. Mrs. J. W. Faithful and Mrs. Schroeder added to the success of the evening by their talented work as piano accom- panists. After the programme there gvas a very pleasing dance held, the Schroeder orchestra furnishing the music. Among the local and personal items in The Advance ten years ago were the followingzâ€"“There was a spirited de- bate at the Caledonian Society on the question “Is Scotland a Nation?" P. Dougall argued it was not, but D. Mac- kie ably and earnestly urged that it was. The society voted on the debate. the greater part of the members strong- ly endorsing Mr. Mackie’s stand." and other points east." “Jack H. Hill, of the Prudentical Bond and Securit 00.. Toronto, is a visitor to the camp on business. He was a resident of the Porcupine in its early days. He served for a time on HMS. Niobe and was awarded two medals for that service” Later he went overseas with one of the: first Canadian infantry battalions." “C. Grill. of the Stock Jewelry Store. returned last week from Toronto where he spent some weeks in hospital un- dergoing treatment. By an odd coin- cidence he occupied the same bed in the hospital as that filled! by Jack MacLean for several months." “Bornâ€"In Tim- mins. on Wednesday, Dec. lst. 1920. to Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Greyâ€"a daugh- ter.” “Mrs. A. Laprairie and son, Mas- ,Ler Paul, left yesterday for a two ’months’ visit to relatives and friends Tin Montreal.” “Geo. Laporte has re~ isigned his position as town constable of lTimmins, the resignation going into leffect this week." “At the R.C. church this (Wednesday) morning James Sal- omone and Miss Lena Gauthier were united in marriage by Rev. Fr. Theri- ault. The young couple are well-known :and popular in many circles in town and their friends will extend to them [best wishes." On Friday evening, December 5th, in the Oddfellows’ hall, Spruce street, there was the regular session of the I.0.0.F. lodge. During the evening another application was proposed for membership. After the business of the lodge was ”concluded a very enjoyable evening of games was passed. The cards included bridge and five hundred. Hot coffee and cakes were served to all present. ENJOYABLE EVENING AFTER REGULAR LODGE SESSION Next Friday evening, Dec. 12th, at 8.30 after the regular meeting, there will be a social evening for all Odd- fellows and their wives and sweethearts. All members of the Order should note the date, Dec. 12th, and make every effort to be there and bring a friend, as this is going to be one of the best socials that has been put on. Some of the best artists available in the North Country have been secured for the event. Renfrew Mercury :â€"-Ott-awa has elected Controller J. J. Allen to the mayoralty by aoclamatlon. Mayor Plant was again nominated but did not care to stand. One of Controller Al- len’s planks for mayor is the elimination of polltks and patronage from city hall business and from city hall appoint- ments and promotions, which is a plank 22 Third Avenue II I S 7 favorite Bra ml CIGAR STORE LUXTON’S can be found in a pleasing variety suitable to every taste. If he smokes make this store your Christmas shopping headquarters Christmas Gifts For Him Thursday, Dec.11th, 1930 that will be counnended by all the bat elements of the city. All municipalities whether urban or rural. would do well to keep politics out of civic concerns. If Ottawa failed to do so it is little wonder that its city hall should have known so much trouble during the past year or so. Timmins