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Porcupine Advance, 30 Sep 1935, 1, p. 1

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Mines. A trip to the Dome had to be cancelled since the special train arâ€" rived nearly four hours late. The four Pullmans, diner and baggage car that made up the special pulled out of the yesterday and were gutsts of Jules R. Timmins at the Hollinger directors‘ iodge for luncheon. ' men, many of whom had never besn in Northern Ontario before, were shown Visit Here of Members Toronto Stock Exchange Fortyâ€"two Representatives of. Leading Firms Guests at Timmins Yesterday. Visit the Big Mines. Entertained at Luncheon by J R. Timmins. At this week‘s special meeting it will probably be decided whether or not there is to be an alternative question on the municipallyâ€"cwned Hyrdo supâ€" plied system. If the council finds it possible to make a deal with the power company, the electors will probably be asked to vote on the question. During the next year, between municipal elections, the power company‘s franchise here tsrmiâ€" nates, so that a question is to be subâ€" mitted this December asking if the franchise is to be continued. Members of the town council will. mect representatives of the Northern Ontario Power Company this week, it is expected, to discuss the proposal made here this year that the town buy the company‘s equipment in ’I‘immins-‘ so that citizens may be supplieq with power from the Hydro Commission. . To Discuss the Power Franchise This Week May be Vote on the Matter at the Coming Municipal Elections Here. The Liberals have never thought of amalgamation of the two railway sysâ€" tems, Mr. Bradette said. They want both to remain as separate units of service. But he does b:lieve that more service should be given on the Quebecâ€" Cochrane line, built through one of the finest sections of the country now unâ€" development. Sane policies should be followed, he contendcd, to allow the farmers of the North to retain their (Continued on Page Five) No Commission Radio Dealing with the radio situation in the North, the speaker said he had been in favour of nationalization of radio because he felt that the whole of Canada should be served in the same manner as the larger centres. "I have no quarrel with your local radio staâ€" tionâ€"it probably gives some services the commission could notâ€"but at the same time, I am disappointed that we have not yet radio commission proâ€" grammes in Northern Ontario," he reâ€" Timmins in 10 years, he estimated, whereas under carefullyâ€"managed priâ€" vate ownership, Timmins should still be here in a hundred years. Accused by the Hon. H. H. Stevens in the House of having a parochial attitud>, Mr. Bradette had pointed out that the industry had a tremendous effect on the whole of the country and had been one of the greatest stabilizing factors during recent years. During the Bennett regime, Mr. Braâ€" dette stated that there had been an inâ€" crease in the national gebt of $800,00Gâ€" Wm. Lyon Mackenzie King, would rather go down to defsat than, go around the country making promises that not be fulfilled. The Stevens proposal to take over the gold mines of the North and make them a nationai profit industry would amount to the practical destruction of Prosptrity is possible in Canada, Jos. A. Bradette, M.P. told a thousand elecâ€" tors of Cochrane riding at the big. Libâ€" eral rally in the skating rink on Friday night, but only through cutting down the enormous profits made by some firms during depression yearsâ€"not by nationalization of the basic industries. He mads no promises to the éelecâ€" torate, other than to be the "servant of the riding, not its master.‘" He said that he, like his leader, the Right Hon. brokers left Toronto on Friday, Over a Thousand Hear â€" Liberal Speakers Here Fortyâ€"two representatives of Toronâ€" on. J. C. Elliott, J. A. Bradette, M.P., Dean Kester, Dr. J. A. Mcinnis, E. L. Longmore, Nap Caron, Discuss the Isâ€" sues of the Day at Big Meeting Friday. five It‘s rumoured that a fan dancer is to be in Schumacher on that evening and that a performance may be given | at the Croatian hall. The "Lions Circus of Frivolity" affair is scheduled for the hall on that evening but officials ~of the â€"Bchumacher Liors Club could not be reached to verify the fan dance ecnnection with the big affair, Two full bags are returned to the Kiwanis Clubâ€"one for the bag of seed supplied at the beginning of the season and the other for fertilizer supplied during the growing season.>~Each boy has kept careful reports as to how many hours labour he spent on the ; plot sesding, cultivating, weeding and harvesting. i The twoâ€"acre plot set aside for the i use of the boys is on the other side of the river on Frank Feldaman‘s farm. ‘There the boys have turned unused land into a really productive property What? a ‘Fan Dance‘ in Schumacher Now? Anyway There‘s to be Nearâ€" ly. Everything at the Lions Circus of Frivolity. - Township of Tisdale morality squad has been warned to be on the lookout on the night of October 1l1th, The Adâ€" lTwo Hundred and Fifty Bags of Potatoés Harvested from ~Less than Two Acres; Some Boys Got 18 Bags from Tenth of Acre All had Good Crops. Harvested on Saturday. One of these days the public will have an opportunity of seeing just what work the boys did do. The date for the potato fair has not yet been set but there‘s sure to be plenty of enthusiasm among the youthful gardeners when it does come off, for they were already comparing potatoss as they were dug from the ground on Saturday. It was cold and rainy, but the boys didn‘t seem to mind that. It was the day on which they had something to show for their summer‘s work. Five big truckloads were taken to the boys‘ homes and there are more to come. / If 18 schoolboys can get a crop of 250 bags of potatoss from a plot of ground 1.8 acres in area, what will those same young men be able to do a few years from now when they have a whole back yard at their disposal? The members of the Kiwanis Boys‘ Potato Club did their harvesting on Saturday ang what a harvest it was! Some of them got as many as 18 bags of spuds from their tenthâ€"acre plot. All of them had fine crops. Good Crops in Kiwanis Boys‘ Potato Club Plot Although it is understood that a night train service beiween Timmins anq North Bay as noted in The Adâ€" vance last week will go into effect on October 20th, no more definite word has been sent to local offices of the T. N. O. Other timeâ€"tables will be altered slightly to fit in with the new service, it is believed, the triâ€"weekly "local"‘ in particular. It is probable that the railway will issue a definite stateâ€" Night Train Service Effective Oct. 20th ment within the next few days. _Timmins Uniteq Football Club will hold their general meeting in_the Timâ€" mins. toewn hall Thursday of this week, October 3rd. All those interested in football are invited to attend. There is considerable business to be dealt with and all interested in football should attend. Make a note of the date and placeâ€"Thursday, Oct. 3rd, at 8 p.m., at the town hall; Likely Timetables will be Altered Slightly to Fit in with New Service. General Meeting Timmins United F. C., on Thursday if f TIMMINS, ONTARIO, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1935 Published at Timmins. Ont, Contde PRICE THREE CENTS Noon weather report for Northern Ontario:â€" Tuesday, strong northwest winds, cloudy and cool with scattered showers or snowflurries. Delegates of the Timmins d2partment who attended were Deputy Chief Wm. Stanley, Harry Redden and Alvin Leach Both men‘s and women‘s Stevens Clubs of Timmins were reâ€"organized yesterday at a meeting in the Moose hall attended by more than a hundred enthusiastic supporters of Dr. Murâ€" tagh in the coming Federal election. Although the candidate himself was unable to be present, a number of speeches were heard from those interâ€" ested in the Reconstruction party. Among. those who addressed the gathâ€" ering were H. J. Murtagh, Jack Mcâ€" Lellan, R,. M. Hobson, Hugh L. Warâ€" ren, Harold Proctor, Miss Margaret Leberge, Mrs. France and Mrs. Mcâ€" Meeting Yesterday in the Interests of Dr. Murtagh It is expected that a large public mecting will be held in the near future. Next year‘s big field day on July 1st will be held in Kapuskasing, it was deâ€" cided. One of the best items on the proâ€" gramme was a paper prepared by Morâ€" ris Daher, of the Timmins department, on "entering a smoke filled building," it is reported. Kapuskasing Selected as the Scene of Field Day on July 1, 1936 . Cochrane Firemen in Annual Meeting With representatives from Timmins, Schumacher, Iroqucis Falls, Montrock, Ansonville, Cochrane and Kapuskasâ€" ing present, the annual meeting of the Cochrane District Firemen‘s Association was held at Cochrane last Thursday. and they‘ve even amazed some of the real farmers with the results they have obtained. Next year the club will be bigger and better than ever, for the second year lads get bigger plots and bigger reâ€" the meetirg, "pulled" this one: "A Scotsman was kicked out Italy for singing:â€""I love Selasâ€" 2 | At All Scots Will Have to Leave Ethiopia Joseph Roy and Paul Lajeunesse, of Timmins, and Jokhn Parysek pleaded guilty some days ago at Rouyn to cMarges® of theft, and were sentenced to 18 months in jail, while Ben Sokoâ€" loski, ~charged â€" with receiving stolen gcods, and pleading guilty, was given a term of nine ~months.> Reginald Skuce, pleadedâ€"guilty to a theft charg?e and was remanded for sentence. The five men were implicated in a series of robberies in Rouyn on Sept. 7th, â€"when several stores and a private home were entered and goods stolen. Four of the Joseph Roy and Paul Laâ€" jeunesse and Three Others Sentenced in Connection with Robberies. part of the stoler goods was recovere«d. Timmins Men Given Jail Terms at Rouyn Timmins, and Jokn guilty some days ag cMarges® of theft, an to 18 months in jail, loski, charged â€" with gcods, and pleading a term of nine â€"~n Skuce, pleadedâ€"guilty and was remanded ue : 0)4 $ j S awed i4 tha mmm. 8 Eitm avenue, on â€" rmm' A4vâ€" anrnn #n«w oaftarnann«c Mnnt® 1râ€" The civil cases include two for qamâ€" ages in conncction with motor vehicles. One of them is a claim by ons of the drummers in the Porcupine District Pips Band for injury to his ankle through being run over by a bus at Cochrane on July 1st. The other motor case is Spencer vs. Roach, the defenâ€" dant having disd in the meantime. A dispute: over a property purchase (Rainville vs. Pierce, ~Coplin and Abrams) and a divorce suit (Brewer vs. Brewer) are the two nonâ€"jury cases. In the criminal section, the most imâ€" portant is a charge of manslaughter against A. C. White, Hoyle, in connecâ€" tion with the shooting of cne of three young men whom Mr. Whyte states he fcund on his premises after he had been told by phone by a neighbour that his garage was being burglarized. At the same court onz of the three young men will be on trial in connection with the alleged robbery. Cases from Timmins at the Fall Assizes A. C. White‘s Case Among Others to Come up at Cochrane at the Assizes Opening Toâ€"morrow. day and Friday afternoons, Oct. 3rd angq 4th, ketween 3 and 4 o‘clock. This incculation will give lifelong immunity from diphtheria. The inocculation is safe and harmless. All children between the ages of nine months and six years should be inoculated against diphtheria. The fall assizes for the District of Cochran» will open toâ€"morrow at Cochâ€" rane, with six cases to be heard, all of them of interest to Timmins people. Consent cards have been sent out in regard to the inoculation of school children for diphtheria. It is also anâ€" nounced that children of preâ€"school age will be. given free inoculation at Free Inoculation This Week Against Diphtheria As noted in The Advance last Thursâ€" day the Canadian Chautauquas open at Timmins on Oct. 7th. The proâ€" gramme this year promises to be betâ€" ter than past years. FPurther details will be given in next issue. Tickets, programmes and other particulars may be secured from the secretary of the local ccmmittee, Ralph Elston. There are half a dozen common garâ€" den variety of drunks and two drunk and disorderly charges. ‘Ostcar ~Porest"®and ~Romeo "Daigzanois are jointly charged with keeping liquor for sale, following a police raid on an Avenue road residence. _ Antonio Bando, 71 Hector street, is chargeq with selling liquor, and two in the house at the time of a police raid are charged with drinking and purâ€" chasing beer. A vagrancy charge and a mental case complete the docket up to this morning. CANADIAN CHAUTAUQUAS COMMENCE HERE OCT. 7TH There are a number of cases for toâ€" morrow‘s court in addition to remands from last week. Following an accident, L. Develino was arrested on a charge of ‘being drunk in charge of a car. A man who ran into Dalton‘s bus is charged with reckless driving, his brakes not being good. A Kirkland Lake man faces a reckless driving charge for speeding, cutting in and overloaded car. Another accident resulted in a charge against C. R. Blackwell, of London, for reckless driving. There are a numâ€" ber of cases of improper parking, driving without lights, ineffective brakes, etc. L. Allaire, A. Kovac, T. Twaddle and‘ John Radak are charged with selling groceries after hours, the last two <nâ€". tering pleas of guilty. | for you all to see by pretty Miss Elizabeth Newton of Sandy Falls. The giant pickerel, which weighed 11% pounds some time after it was caught this fall at Sandy, is reputed to ‘be the largest one ever caught there, H#f not in the entire district. In length it was 31 inches, girth 27% inches. Charlie Oaty the fisherman who caught it, on an ordinary "plug" ‘purchased at a local store. The fish More Traffic Cases for Court Toâ€"morrow Includes Drunk in Charge of Car Charges, Reckless Driving and Other Cases. Selling After Hours. @00 POGGOPLOCCOOCOCGEe , The only other gqamage noticed as being due to the high wind was the reâ€" moval of a fence built around a Third avenue foundation sits. The boards, twisted and broken, were thrown to the bottom of the excavation. Roundhouse Smoke Stack Cut by Wind The smoke stack at the T. N. O. roundhouse is just 12 feet shorter now than it was a week ago. The high wind of last Wednesday disposed of the top sections very neatly and left two of them hanging from the guy wires. Forâ€" tunately tae stack was never jammed in any way, so that there was no neâ€" cessity of drawing fires. No one hapâ€" p:ned to be standing underneath when the heavy section of pipe came down. High Wind Last Wednesday Iso Smashed and Scatâ€" spring probably about the time the fishermen are getting all het up about the sport. tered Temporary Fence Around Sand. At Sandy Falls! ry Beach, CC.F.; are already duly nominated. Tom Ewen, communist, had not put in his nomination up to noon, but it was expected. A new nomination is expected to be that of Mr. Leroux, now reeve of â€"Andonville, who is underâ€" siqod to be in the figld as an indepenâ€" dent Conservative candidate, Nominaâ€" tion papers were obtained last week LSor Mr. Leroux‘s candidature and it is expected that th:se. will be filled out and duly handed in before the closaing Likely Five Candidates in the Cochrane Riding Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Allard, of Noâ€" randa, were among those attending the celebraticn in honour of the silver jubilee of Rev. Fr. Theriault in Timâ€" mins last week. Independent Conservative Candidate Now Expected to be Added to the Liberal, C.C.F., Stevens, and Communist Candidates Already Announced as in the Field. Word from Toronto this morning gives the sad news of the death of J. J. Kelso, founder of the Children‘s Aid and originator of many other notâ€" able efforts for humanity. He was for 40 years superintendent of, the Ontario Department for Neglected ‘and Depenâ€" dent Children. Telephone Girl Dies in Fire at Earlton Miss Dorothy Nudds, 19 â€"years of age, partâ€"time switchboara operator for the Northern Telephone Co., whose office was in the hotel, died in a fire that deâ€" stroyed the Cecil hotel at Earlton, 18 miles from New Liskeard, on Friday morning. Mary Anne Leroux, cook, has three broken ribs and a broken Collarâ€" bone as a result of jumping from the second floor of the building. Joseph Pendleton, truck driver, was burned about the hands and face in sliding down the rope from his room on the second floor. Campbell Kerr, son of R. Kerr, proprietor of the hotel, atâ€" tempted to resdue Miss Nudds but was forced back ‘by the flames, as were others. The fire had a big grip before its discovery at 3.30 a.m. The origin of the fire is not known. The building was totally destroyed. The late Miss Nudds was the daughter of Geo, Nudds, the wellâ€"known and popular T. N. O. engineer. Pipes fell off the furnace at 8 Mountâ€" joy street on Saturday morning at 11 o‘clock, caused a lot of smoke, but did no fire damage. Chimney and stoveâ€"pipe fires on sSaturday at 65 Commercial avenue and yesterday at 28 Laurier avenue did no damage. Both were box alarms. Dorothy Nudds Suffocated in Earlton Hotel Friday Morning. Others Injured Three Fire Calls Over ‘the Weekâ€"end in Timmins Cold weather brought the fire deâ€" partment thsir first few calls in a numâ€" ber of weeks. Three alarms, all due to pipes or chimneys, were answered over the weekâ€"end. ang district will extend the deepest sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Keelsy in their loss. nesday afternoon just after five o‘clock when she was struck by a car driven by W. Scott, farmer of Casey township, near New Liskeard. The child was playing in front of the Keeley home at Swastika when the accident occurred. Mr. Keeley saw the accident but could do nothing to avoid it. The funeral was held on Saturday. Friends in Timmins Little Mary Catherine Keeley, two years and nine months old, daughteor of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Keeley, formerly of Timmins ‘but now of Swastika, Mr. Keeley being mine inspector for the Kirkland district, was killed on Wedâ€" Little Girl Killed by Car at Swastika Banquet at Legion on Saturday a Big Success Daughter of Mrâ€" and Mrs. Ed Keeley, formerly of Timmins, Struck by Car on Road. Timmins Branch of Cangddian Legion Entertain South African Veterans to Banquet and Smoker. Wreath Laid on Cenotaph. + KELSO, FOUNDER OF THE CHILDREN‘S AID, PASSES ON NEW ORCHESTRA ENGAGED â€" FOR RIVERSIDE PAVILION ‘The management of the Riverside pavilion announced last wetk the cnâ€" gagement of Andy Congiano and his erchestra for the Tall and wifiter dances Dr. McClinton, responded to the toast "The Navy‘‘ and gave a verp patriotic version of how and why Britain rules the wavesâ€"‘*"‘The Boys of the Bulldog Breed" was the musical response. â€" So the eveming went, every speaker getting old patrioctic song honours. "Goodâ€"bye Dolly Grey," "Goodâ€"bye My Bluebell," "Tommy Atkins," and the one of more recent years "Pack up your Troubles." Comrade J. Cowan then took gavel for the musical and. entertaining part of the programme. A fine banjo solo by Comrade Cavell, who also sang two nogro songs was a popular hit. Chas. Roberts was in splendid form and reâ€" ceived loud and prolonged applause for his very appropriate sellections. A. Bellamy sang in his usual style "On the Road to Mandalay,‘‘ accompanied by H. Hopkins,. T. Williams also rendered two very fine vocal solos, ‘"Danny Boy," ‘being a big favourite. Comrade Lowery a South African veteran entertained in song ang story and was well received. Ed., Horton (remembered as the man who was in a car accident from Barnes circus) kept his audience in roars of laughter with his humorous stories. He also voiced his appreciation for kindâ€" nesses shown him by the people and medical and nursing profession of the district. Ed says he‘s trying to stay here and will be in great demand if he does, when it comes to entertaining. Several of the visitors obliged with songs and stories. It was a happy and enjoyable event. Comrade W. Devine, officiated at the piano for the evening. W. Greaves, T. Parsons, A. Bellamy and the other officers of Timmins branch also worked well and th:ir efforts did much towards the success of the event. two or three months and has done considerable amount of work. The band leader hails from North Bay. Regular dances at the Riverside are Wednesdny and Saturday evenings, | _ Austin Neame, p.esident ol the Leâ€" gion here, pened the proceedings for | the smoker that followed, and in a neat 'speech touched upon the anxiety and strain upon the people in the British Empire during ‘both the wars. He paid honour to the South African veterans and hoped that there would be many more such gatherings. Gen. Swift reâ€" sponded and gave aâ€"review of what the Canadians did in South Africa, He touched upon some of the engagements: ‘and theâ€"capturing by the brigade under the ccmmand of Gen. Emithâ€"Dorrien of 5,000 Boers. Of the recent upheaval, he said it looked as if some would have |to go and although he was well up in the sixties he would still do his part if needed. The reply to this remark was the entire gathering singing that army favourite "Old Soldiers‘ Never Die." The Legion hall was the scene of an unusual event in local circles on Saturâ€" day evening. There were gathered from all parts of the North Land vetâ€" erans of the South African, the majorâ€" ity of them also being veterans of the Great War. Some of these men wore as many as eight medals and the average of the 32 present was five decorations. The guests assembled at "the Legion hall at 6.00 p.m. and led by the Porâ€" cupine Distri¢ct Fipe Band, with Drumâ€" major Cotcher, in charge (also a South African veteran) and escorted by a large contingent of the local legionâ€" naires, marched to the cenotaph where General Swift, president of the Kirkâ€" land Lake branch, Canadian Legion and also a member of the Royal Canaâ€" dian Regiment in South Africa in 1899, placed a" wreath in memory of those who died in service (1899â€"1902; 1914â€" 1918). Upon returning to the hall a banquet was served the guests and members of the ‘Legion. The menu consisted of: Fruit cocktail, vegetable soup, roast turkey, green peas and mashed potaâ€" toes, biscuits and ice cream. The tables were also laden bountifully with celery hearts, cheese, crackers, sliced tomaâ€" toes and olives, fresh peaches and oranges. P. Lacroix of the Lady Lauâ€" rier hotel, was the caterer and was showered with full praise for the splenâ€" did dinner provided. Andy has been in town for‘the past 1 Section

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