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48 48# *# 448 8 * * * *4 45 4* 4 *4 PACGE STt There was a touch of irony about the fact that Monday of this week the charge against Harry Carie preferred by the Sudbury C.P.R. police was withâ€" drawn. Carie was arrested here last week by the Timmins police and held for the C.F.R. police at Sudbury who wanted him on account of some forged money orders. Carie was apparently ill at the time of I~.s arrest and was transâ€" ferred to the hospital where he was kept under guard. He made such determined effort to escape from cusâ€" Charge Against H. Carie tody at E8 tE E55505 5 i5 05 i5 i5 i5 05 oo i5 i5 io o i io i i io in io io in i in i5 05 ib 05 05 05 05 0515 05 05 15 15 45 5i5 35 15 i5 45 5 45 45 15. + was Withdrawn Monday the hospital that he was reâ€" In that announcement we stated that these reduced rates would take efâ€" fect on all accounts rendered after the end of the year. That date is now very close, and we strongly urge all customers to prepare to take advanâ€" tage of these low rates by signing the new contract which is now ready at all our offices. Early in September we announced through the press our latest reduction in Commercial and Domestic Rates The taxes at the present time, mean an increase of approximately 11 p.c. on the above rate. These reductions will become effective on all accounts rendered after the end of the year. The above rates are net after deducting the usual discount for prompt payment. These reductions are entirely voluntary on the Company‘s part and will enable our customers to make fuller use of electricity, ang at the same time save money. We also hope with increased usage of electricity we will be able to make still further reductions in our rates from time to t:me. If you desire to take advantage of these reduced rates, the new contracts are now available, and if you will communicate with any of our offices, we will be pleased to give you full information reâ€" zarding them. Fixed Charge $1.35 per month Plus 2.7¢ per K.W.H. for the first 100 hours use of connected load. Plus .9¢ per K.W.H. for all addiâ€" tional use. Plus taxes. Canada Northern Power Corporation, Limited Important Notice OST advertising is prepared and directed to attract new business, and new business is always welcomed by a progresâ€" sive institution. Total Assets over Canada Northern Power Corporation, Limited NEW OPTIONAL COMMERCIAL RATE CUSTOMERS‘ INTERESTS NORTHERN ONTARIO POWER COMPANY LIMITED NORTHERN QUEBEC POWER COMPANY LIMITED turned to the town jail. On account of his apparent poor health the police put him in one of the temporary cells used recently for female prisoners. He esâ€" caped from this cell Sunday afternoon and so was not available for C.PR. Officer ‘O‘Brien who came here to take to take him back to Sudbury for trial on the forgery charge. In the meanâ€" t.me, however, relatives and friends made full restitution of the money in dispute in connection with the express orders, together with the costs in the case, and the charge was accordingly withdrawn by the complainants in the case. Try The Advance Want Advertisements 500,000,000 Controlling and Operating Fixed Charge 54c per month Plus 2.7 per K for the first 100 K.W.H. Plus .9¢ per K.W.H. for all addiâ€" tional use. Plus taxes. NEW OPTIONAL DOMESTIC RATE Notable Progress Coâ€"operative Store _ _A byâ€"law recently going into effeci 'is very interesting and shows the emâ€" phasis the Coâ€"operative store places on {prompt payment. This byâ€"law reads: I "All customers, either members or nonâ€" members, whose accounts are not paid n full on due dates and who are in l debt to the society for fortyâ€"five conâ€" secutive days or more, are to receive only oneâ€"half of the Otherwise total purchase dividend." This is one of the Coâ€"operative store plans for inducing \prompt payment of accounts. Under the able management of C. | Haapenen the Consumers‘ Coâ€"operative Society has made notable progress, inâ€" deed, and is pOopularizing the coâ€"operâ€" store idea. Dividend notices recently sent out to shareholders of the Consumers Coâ€" aperative Society, Wmited, with stores at Timmins, Schumacher, and South Porcupine, show a notable growth in the business of this company. It i; als>a an evidence of the benefit of the coâ€"cperative storse when conducted along the lines ‘of the Consumers C»â€" copcrative. The dividend notices reâ€" cently issued show that for 1932 the tctal sales were $146,342.37. In 1983 the sales totalled $220,367.21. The growth in 1934 ~business was eavally nt:â€" worthy, the total sales being $250,788.67 Profits for distribution for the three years were:â€"1932, $5,508.17; 1933, $7,â€" 636.50: 1934, $10.106.05. s<t aside 5 per cent of total profit for educational work; the remainder to be returned to each customer in proporâ€" tion to his purchases. Members receive 3 per Cent.; one half in shares Of the company and the other half in cash. Nonâ€"members receive 1 1â€"2 per cent payable in shares of the company. The nonâ€"member‘s dividend is held to his credit until" the dividends have accuâ€" mulated to the amount of $10.00 after which a share is issued and he may then enjoy all the privileges of a shareholder. Sales nearly Doubled in Two Years by Constmers‘ Coâ€" opeftative Store Business in Camp. At the annual meeting of the comâ€" pany the profits were distributed as follows:â€"8 per cent interest on capital (20 cents a share)»; set astde for reâ€" serve fund, 20 per cent of total profit; Tickets on Sale at Club House for Badminton Dance Tickets for the Badm‘nton Club New Year‘s Eve dance are now Oobtainable at the club house where the tickets may be secured from the stewardess. The Porcupine Badminton Club‘s New Year‘s Eve party for members of the club and their outâ€"ofâ€"town guests will be held «on Monday â€"evening, Dec. 31ist. Dancing will be at 10 pm. Reâ€" freshments will be served at 12.30 a.m. Single members may bring parfgners. THE PORCUPTYE ADVANCE, TTMMINS ONTARTO It must be the Timmins post office. Stores may be rushed, offices may be at peak of work, but it‘s hard to imagine a place that is expected to get through more work in a single day than the place where all the letters ang parcels go. The busiest place in town mas? Ninetyâ€"two}Bags of Mail Left Here on Tuesday When other businesses are in their busy season, they simply hire more men to do the work. But the post office department can‘t do that quite as easily. The business of sorting mail is a highly specialized one as a glance behind the scenes shows. The cheerful attitude of the postal employees to their work is something to be marvelled at. They must answer the same questions day after day and they are almost always polite. It‘s jJust Christmas! They‘ll be dead tireq when the 25th comes but the big rush will be over for another year. They know they‘re bringing cheer to someone, every Christmas card and parcel that be over f0or anotheéer year. iney Knuouw they‘re bringing cheer to someone, every ‘Christmas card and parcel that passes through their hands. About the middle of the week before Christmas, there‘s always a danger of he smaller offices running out of bags, though usually there is more mail sent to the small offices from the cities than there is the other way. The bags must be kent moving. If they were allowed to pile up in one place, others would be out of luck. On Tuesday The Advance saw the local post office staff at their job of getting as much mail into the right places as quickly as possible. Inspector W. J. Gagne of the North Bay Postal Division was there and even he was busy giving a hand just before it was closed off for the morning. Postmaster Ernest King tells you quite calmly, "The Christmas mail is about seven times normal volume. We do the best we can but you can see for yourself we can‘t cope with this last minute food of letters and parcels." Just about 11.15 every morning there is a rush to get letters and parcels into the mail before it closes. In 15 minutes Just about 11.15 every morning th is a rush to get letters and parcels i the mail before it closes. In 15 mint the receiver under the letter chutes the office, an affair about four i1 square and a foot deep, was piled h with letters. Hundreds of them! about the same length of time two h parcels carriers about the same len and width but over three feet d were collected from the parcel wicl All this was after Inspector Gagne â€" clared the mail closed for the n train. Tuesday morning‘s total mail ShiPâ€" | nusband, and the same accident is Ti ped from Timmins was 92 bagsâ€"a g004 | jikely to ever happen again." big truck load. How the dosen or so people employved at the post office now Try The Advance Want Advertisements A woman came up to the parcel ket at fifteen minutes before noon want this to go on the noon train want this to go on the noon train." "Sorry, madam, the mail closed threeâ€" quarters of an hour ago." "But you told me it didn‘t close unti While other girls are in the middle of their morning beauty sleep, Mary Hirsch is out on the track at Bowie, Md., giving her horses a workout. She‘s leading Tartan Bess to the post. piled high them! In minut autes hris n | iarming e | rent. + £ h{ demoya p| ted as much as the work of the husband at the wheel. The man thinking his wife was still in the car proceeded thankâ€" €ully along on his way hOome. He spoke once or twice Oover his shoulder and like most men did not wait for any answer. The man had about all he could d> to keep the car on the road and going. Shortly before the husbhand reached home he remembered that he should call at a friend‘s house. He stopped for this purpose. "T‘ll be only a minute," he callsd over his shoulder to his wife, who, however. A cancell:ng machine through 400 letters a lot but you can‘t do chine! And there isr chine in use vet that k and then he noted : was missing. Was got to the nearest i a general alarm for In the meantime the car fairly sail away her, despite her fr husband. When s} could not attract he believed? Did he even tell the truth? Over all these questions the newspaper reports cast a mantle of charity or something. â€" Most newspaper men are married themselyves. But one report lifts the veil a little by the sentence:â€"â€" "It was a hectic half hour for fmend husband, and the same accident is nmot likely to ever happen again." town aAand Ccity in Cana railway route to take to fastest. Everybody wants ever zet their Christmas card jay before Christmas. â€"an‘t be ‘done. Think Everybody wants everybody else to zet their Christmas card or parcel the jay before Christmas. Well, it justl san‘t be done. Think what it would| mean to provide postal facilities seven times as great as we have now just to handle mail for a few weeks Oof the year. Think of your postal employees and the postmaster who is responsible for all the proper handling Of your letter or parcel. Then marvel that you eet any Christmas mail at all! This Would be a Strain Even on Christmas Spirit and mig the A conviction was registered in the case of John Morin, charged with reâ€" lceiving goods known to be stolen. on Tuesday !When the charge of receiving one each ". # Pog ‘immins Post Office. Sevenicf a case of eggs, butter and tea was ail Matter Being Handledlread. he pleaded not guilty. He conâ€" | ducted his own defense. | _ _A cheque in favour of Leo Legendre were able to handle all that mail in | for $23.50 was produced in evidence and rddition to their regular job of sortâ€" morin admitted that he had paid that ng the incoming mail and all the other|for the goods. Crownâ€"Attorney Caldâ€" The worst is yet to come. Toâ€"day Friday, Saturday and Monday will se post officers all over Canada buried un der a flocd of mail. fully along on hi poke once or twice ind like most men iny answer. The : 11 e, he that n odd, unusual, amusing and aâ€" ming story comes from Little Curâ€" t. â€" A prominent merchant of Minâ€" noar Little Current, is reporâ€" as having been out driving with wife in their automobile when they cuntered snow and the car stalled. > merchant was in and out of the N;‘ Starl car did efforts at she. mig wife, howeyv 0t behind it s Oof the wif the work of The man in the car to get it going but his it, simply sat in the car right keep warm. The ever, got out of the car it to give the push that going again. Eventually irt, thanks, probably, to the wife at the back as 6 Dr. Dafoe Expects Influx to the North s FIR E! _ #%%0%8¢848 : Suspended Sentence in Case of Theft of Goods P 00606868 0 4808008 080 % 8 804684600008 0000004000 664A 0 0 06 0 6 0 4 John Morin Convicted on One Charge of Receiving. Other Cases Remanded to Next Week. Docket Smaller than Last Week. Magistrate Atkinson on suspended‘ sentence. Both Crown Attorney Cald-l bick, and Archis Brown, for the deâ€". fense, recommeonded the suspended sentence as it was said that this was Aurtlle‘s first offence, and he was the sole support of his widowed mother. Magistrate Atkinson talked to the young man, explained that he might be brought back at any time within two vears to be sentenced on the charge if he did not behave himself, and told him that he was to make every effort to repay the value of the goods within that time. "You were in a position of trust with the company and it was up to you to keep faith with your emâ€" ployers." he concluded. On behalf Of the city of North Bay |wedding at LOndon Lo Mayor Bullbrook officially welcomed |not invited by his Eng Dr. Dafoe and Myr. Morrison home |of the popular acclaim again. Despite his international|which he once hoped famse, I believe he is glad to be back | destroy? Al Smith Among Those who Promised to Come to the North. Dr. Dafoe Well Used in Dr. Dafoe, physician, to the Dionne quintuplets, returned on Monday from a trip to the United St‘ates where he spent a vacation with his brother and the latter‘s wife. On his return to the North Dr. Dafos was a guest at the NOorth Bay Rotary Cub and spoke briefly. The shortness of the address was largely due ‘to the fact that Dr. Dafoe was suffering from a sore throat. "Al" Smith, former Governor of | New York has promised to visit Northâ€" ern Ontario and the Dionne quintupâ€" lzts, Dr. A. R. Dafoe, told the North | Bay Rotary Club. l "There is going to be a tremenâ€" dous immigration to this spot, which will benefit not only Callander and' North Bay, but Ontario and Canada," said the doctor. Accompanied by G. K. Morr:son, one of the guardians to the famous babes, Dr. Dafoe, troubled with a sore throat, spCke briefly. f | ut nc 1dar Are You Fully Protected ? see us for Rates and Particalars INSURANCE of Every Kind 21 Pine St. North Phone 104 _ Timmins, Ont. ind s Jurt on pleadin bag hert till da in e vhen evidenc n Aurell hn zrar from released ispended months in jail. Two vagrants were given a week to get out of town or to get a job here. A Freckless driving charge was disâ€" missed. Henry Lanthier will pay $100 and costs or go to jail for three months on u charge of illegally having liquor. bick, in crossâ€"examination st $28.50 was well below the vs goods but Morin claimed he Leo cash as well. This, Leo The magistrate stated would be a conviction but other charge against Morin ing would be heard. befor was passed. Morin decided remand on the second to get more information. H leaskbq on $500 cash bail and will apâ€" pear next week. Leo Legendre pleaded guilty to reâ€" ceiving stolen goods and was remanded for a week. In order that he might be at liberty for Christmas, he was reâ€" leased on $500 cash bail. Clifforgqg Parent was ill, his lawyer pleaded, and asked for a remand and other charges in connect.on with reâ€" ceiving some of the stolen goods from the same store will also be heard next Thursday. One first offence grunk paid $40 and costs, a second offender $50 and costs and a third offender was given three Discussing the world radio broadâ€" lcast, that he served an area of 500 miles, traveled by horse in the sumâ€" €r and dog team in the winter, Dr. Dafoe said: "I have never travelled by dog team in my life, although 1J would like to have the experience. I have ridden and driven horses, but that is many years ago. .. _I am betâ€" Iter at driving cars." ship, referring to the little doctor whose name is now well known in every country of the world. Everycne with whom he came in contact treated him royally, but he was mighty glad to be back in Calâ€" lander, was the way Dr. A. R. Dafos: briefly commented on his trip, folâ€" Iowing a talk to the Rotary Club in the Empire Hotel at North Bay. briefly commented on his trip, folâ€" Iowing a talk to the Rotary Club in the Empire Hotel at North Bay. The now famcus physician to the Dionne quintuplets had a rather bad cold, spoke but briefly to the club members, and fought shy of reporâ€" ters. "I â€"am tired, ‘but dad a rgh. trip, and everyone was very uit said Dr. Dafoe. He stated |t] was impressed with the many structures, parks and z%¢0s h seen in the United States. Dr. Dafoe chuckled when that he had been quoted in York paper, that there is no fresh milk in this district an( ned mi‘lk was being used for th daren. in Northern Ont ship, â€" referring "Well, you know what those reporâ€" ters are like," said the doctOor, smiling "Anything for a story." Actually there is a herd of cows supplying highly tested milk in larget quantities right on the Dionne estate in which the Dafoe hospital, home 0 the quintuplets, is situated. Dr. Dafce expressed th: well satisfied with the way Hamblin, Toronto, and the cared for the babies in hss Other stories published that the doctor served in a district of almost primitive society amused him, and he stated that the city folks across the line were little different to those in Northern Ontario. > was very uuman He stated that I " said His Worâ€" the little doctor well known in Ere 1l1s now n strict amand can eda for the chil ‘narge in n. He wa x‘ forlorn UI L _ told i New mAIl , he fine had n 1¢