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Pencils and Fountain Pens Disappeared from T‘wo Rooms in Locked School. Haileybury Police Puzzled by Thefts Haileybury, April 151.â€"(Special to The dozon mechanical pencils and twenty fountain pens from two rooms in Haileysury public «chcol cover the weekâ€"end and police whoe have becn investizgating the matâ€" ter are puzzled. The had been locked up as usual on Friday night and when Principal R. J. McClanahan came to szhool cn Mcnday morning he learnâ€" ea of th> missing articles for the first time.. Chief Wallace MzcGirr was notiâ€" fied and he has been making engquiries, but without unearthing any clue to the mystery thus far. Pens and pencils were taken from the senior and junior fourth rooms, taught by the principal and Miss Egerton, reâ€" spectively. How entrance was gained te the school, while not. definitely deâ€" termined, apparently was through the main entrance, since a pans of glass in the front dcor had been broken sufâ€" ficiently to permit admission of a hand, which could then turn the automatic lock" No indication was found that Sunday evening, some windows at the school were broken, aparently through stones being thrown, but it is not cerâ€" Protection During Spring 1937 Northern Division Department of Highways Frost action in April and May causes road beds to get soft and readily subject to damage from traffic. x« TORONTO â€" HAMILTON . MONTREAL *TNSUTâ€"sTEDb SHINCS*.~*.~. Roorincs . .. Insuratinc Boaros, Erc Bumpmo Propucts Limntrep All trucks are limited to half loads and speed of 20 miles per hour. Horse drawn vehicles capacity one ton, 250 lbs: per inch of tires. The weight of loads and speed will be constantly checked. Penalty for overloading is a fine, or imprisonment, or both. Permits may also be suspended. Coâ€"operation from truck and car owners is earnestly requested to prevent unlawâ€" ful and unnecessary abuse of roads. Northern Division Dept. of Highways H. R. PHIPPS, â€" Northern Ontario Roads (over a twoâ€"year period ) B.P. Insulâ€"ated Sidings â€" for the average house, whether in town or in the country, costs only a few dollarsâ€"but what a difâ€" ference it makes! Of real beauty, it insulates, proâ€" tects, ends the need for painting. It is fire resistâ€" ing, permanent in colour, fuelâ€"saving â€"â€" and it will pay for itself through the economies it effects. Back of the exposed and weather resisting surface is Insulâ€"Board, the wellâ€" known moisture â€" proof insulation â€" layer built for â€" greater _ structural strength. Ask any hardâ€" ware or building supply dealer about Insulâ€"ated Sidingsâ€"if you wish he‘ll even arrange the Home Improvement Plan loan for you. World Events: The director of the publishing house, Albrighiâ€"Segati, has been condemned to five years‘ exile beâ€" cause he declared in a privatet converâ€" sation that he loved his dog better than Mussolini. Besides the chairman and the guest speakers, those present included: W. S. Benton, Sudbury; W. C. Gougeon, Sudâ€" dbury; A. E. Cain, Timmins; M. E. Shail. Kirkland Lake; J. A. O‘Donnell, Norâ€" anda; E. C. Pike, Geraldton; C. E. Clcoutier, Val d‘Or; J. M. Belander, Timâ€" mins, and C. F. Brown and D. A. Hill, Ncorth Bay. Dominion Life Men Hold Conference at North Bay tain this had any connection with the allegod thefts. Ncrthern Ontario representatives of the Dominion Life Assurance C:mpany attended an agency convention in the Empire hctel, North Bay, Saturday. The guest speakers were A. S. Upâ€" ton, agency supervisor of the company, ind R. Fieis?hauer, secretary of the unâ€" cerwritinz committee, ~Waterloo. Mr. Uptcn spske on "Increasing Intome Through Quality," and "Time Control." The §ubject. of Mr. Fleischauer‘s adâ€" dress was "Occupational Ratings." F‘. N. McNally, brach manmazer at Ncrth Bay, acted as chairman. The delegates sat down to a banquet in the gril room at 6.30 p.m. Division Engineer. You might consider book shelves in the family game room. It is underâ€" stood that you would not wish to place your finely bound classics or first ediâ€" tions (if any) in the cellar play room, but there are many books which will find their rightful places there. Books on sports, on the hobbies of the family, Book shelves around a radio cabinet is a"good way to camouflage a cabinet whose design you don‘t like. Book shelves can be built around the radio in the same way as the upright piano. A fine picture can be a focal point for a series of book shelves. If you have a picture of which you are parâ€" ticularly fond, you might set it off by building shelves around it and conâ€" triving indirect lighting under the top shelfl to show off your picture. This arrangement is effective in small livâ€" ing rooms where wall space is at a premium, inasmuch as the books around the picture can be placed behind the sofa. If you do not have a picture worthy of this treatment, a mirror is almost as effective. Of course there‘s always the question of whether it‘s the book or the binding that wins it a place in the decorative picture! . Well, we‘ll leave the question of contents to the book editor and deâ€" vote ourself to their books . . . after all, books can be as decorative as a piece of chintz.. We‘ve <even heard of people wino boughtâ€"only the binding of books What a literary lot we‘re getting to be, what with best sellers sprouting every day and book shelves scattered all around the place. Because there‘s scarcely a living room in the town withâ€" out its five (more or less) foot shelf. to put on their»â€"shelves just because they were so.handsomeâ€"you know the in which the piano can be placed. They might be either narrow apertures on either side of the piano to hold books and bibelots, or if the piano is at the end of the room, the bookcases can be long and contain the complete library. Directly over the piano can be built riches to ho‘d sheet music, pilano scores song books and the like. It might be effeztive to keep books pertaining to music in the smaller shelves on either side of the piano, interspersed with small sculptures of the favourite comâ€" posers. The upper part of the book shelves containing sheet music should be built low erough over the piano so that no wall space shows behind. The interior of the niches can either be papered to match or contrast with wall paper in the living room, or they can be painted to set off books and ornaâ€" A horizontal book shelf, with button turfted upholstered setee biult right into the wall beneath th / U e book ;gsfi contributes the main design to a little sitting room in Helen Hayes‘ home overlooking the Hudson ver. + BOOKS IN THE DECORATIVE PICTURE Ideas for Shelves as the Centre of Interestâ€"Their Coclour Contribution. A palr of book shelves on elther 31de of the door are very attlaCtIVt in thls pine naneled room THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE. TIMMINS, ONTARIO PLEASANT HoOMES As for the books themSelves, if thev‘re well bound they‘re nice enocugh in th: {irst place. But anybedy who uses books continuously is certain to have some bedraggledâ€"looking, but indispensible volumes. If you‘re rich have them reâ€" bourd, if you‘re not, answer is fresh Air Station New!: jackets that you can make yourself out * of interesting handâ€"blocked papers or Sudbury Star: Many a f some of the cloth base wall coverings. ‘pm'ed to live on a fellow‘s in Orâ€"of good stout â€"A friend of jcan git another for himself. ‘ And in Helen Hayes‘® charming house overlooking the Hudson River, there is just one horizontal shelf buflt all around the walls of a downstairs sitâ€" ting room. Below this is a long seat built and upholstered with buttom For the really serious readers, nothing takes the place of good small pieces of book furniture to hold the volumes you want to keep in reach of your easy Then there‘s always the paint or paper cure for bookshelves that are ctherwise undistinguished. Line the shelves with a colour that complements the other shades in the room. Or paper the inside of the shelves crisply in a completing colour. When you paint or paper the insides of the shelves, don‘t fill them too full of booksâ€"break the rows with bibelots. chair or bed. Some end tables have bookshelves in their bases and there are ingenious bookstands of various kinds all ready for a good lamp and an ash kind the book agents ojpen out so imâ€" pressively. We can‘t say we approv? that idea, even in the cause of Seauty. We saw a st'.mning book shelf arâ€" rangement recontly thoughâ€"two horâ€" izontal shelves exterding the full length of the room and about a third of the way up the wall. These shelves, reâ€" cessed and â€"indirectly â€" i:uminated struck the dominate pattern detail in or family games, adventure and mystery stories will be welcomed where the family gathers for its fun. A book shelf and game equipmert storage space can be built tagether at tne sides and over the entrance door to the play room. Book shelves are built on either side and absove the door about two feet wide, making a two foot frame a.i arcund to the dcor. Your own equipment will dictate the arrangement of other shelves and cupboards that can be,added to either side of the bookcase frame. Small niches can be made for pingâ€"pong balls, badminton and cupboards for racquets. This ailso is the obvious place for table equipment, score pads, cards, special game boards and such. by Elizabeth MacRea Boykin A young couple with two beautiful percelain vases, no fireplace and some rowdy companions hit upon the idea of book shelves that would take the place of a firsplace as the centre of inâ€" terest in the room and also add design and variety to the wall. They had two sections in the shelves made just the right sizs to hold their lovely vases tuftingâ€"very smart indsed. . . . they looked their best there yet weren‘t in danger of being bounced arcund in an enthusiastic party mood. A Niche Far the Upright Plano _ Bockcases built around an upright piano sometimes solve that problem. Have them deep enough to form a niche Sudbury Star: Many a girl is preâ€" pared to live on a fellow‘s income, if he The fog was very thick and the Chisf Officer of the tramp steamer was peering over the side of the bridge. Suddenly, to his intense surprise, he saw a man leaning over a rail, only a few yards awaty. "You confounded fool," he roared, "what on earth do you think your ship‘s doing? Don‘t you know I‘ve got the yight of way?9" Out of the gloom came a sardonic voice: "This ain‘t no blinkin‘ ship, guvner. This ‘ere‘s a lightâ€"‘ouse!"â€" Pensacola Air Station News. . . . they.can and should be part of the plan if you want to take advantage of the affectionate pains that have gone into the development of bookbinding. Well, the sum and substance of what we‘re meaning to say toâ€"day isâ€"don‘t take your books for granted. Just dumping them into shelves won‘t do the top shelf and painted the same ccolour as the book case. Under the fender can ‘be placed the new tube lights which, when needed, will reflect sufficient light to make the titles easily discernible. Lighting a Book Case For dark places in the home such as hallways, recessed bookcases with inâ€" direct lighting are a clever means of using what might ‘be waste space and brightening the space used. A good means of lighting the ordinary book shelves is to have a tinsmith make a small curved fender to be attached to ours suggested the other day that it would be a nice idea to collect the garâ€" den books all together in flowered chintz covers . . . and the culinary books in oldâ€"time oilcloth. Paper Industry Now Showing Recovery Only Fair Prices Needed to Assure Success. (From North Bay Nugget) A survey made by ‘‘the ‘‘Dominion Bureau of Statistics has revealed that the paperâ€"making indusiry of Canada i1as regained ground lost in ‘the deâ€" pression pericd, and only fair prices are nseded to ensure reasonable profit for the owners and a greater measure <f{ prasperity for the employees. The fact that this industry in Canaâ€" da‘s leading manufaczturing industry in the point of number of persons emâ€" pleyed and distribution of wages and salariss will probably surprise a great many. It isn‘t generally _known taat the pulp and paper industry is~ cf prime importance in Canadian econoâ€" my. With mining and lumbering gainâ€" ing great. proeminente, paper. making was put in esalipse to a degree, but reâ€" cent ressvery moves have demonstrated that this great industry will defim.ely reclaim front ranking. suming the bulk of bhis supply Tho United Kingdom and. Austrana are imâ€" portant : customers.~Of6â€"t] total value of exporteéd â€" nemprint t‘ 11 > per cent. normaily goesâ€" jpmfim‘mxe and the remaining 89 per Cent. to foreign ccuntries. Announcement of sulphate plants beâ€" ing proposed for Blindâ€" River and €pragge lends new interest to this branch cof industry.. They.cannt‘ be deâ€" finitely classed as belcnging to the paper industry, but the kinship is suftâ€" ficiently close tQ:_gmm aâ€"s:rong. assoâ€" clation. With this; paper .plants being cperated on a halfâ€"capacity basis, and others more or less dormant for years rave experienced amazing revivals and with assurance.of the increased activity being of an enduring" na:tnre “*‘m“". world‘s No. t pr and exporter of newsprint,: average cof more_ than a third of tite world‘s yearly requirements About 92 per the annufirproduction "is per cent.:of the annudlâ€"production is exported, with the Uniteéd States conâ€" For Home Repamng General Contractors â€" Builders‘ Supplies Phones : 125â€"126 Timmins HILLâ€"CLARKâ€"FRANGIS Lto. FOR FLOOGRS, sTAIRS AND LINOLEUM It wears on Floors in spite of the hard usage they receive. Is equally good for other interior surfaces requiring a high gloss varnish. â€"Renew Tonight â€"Use Tomorrow . 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But it‘s tougher when you pay orly twenty."â€"Brooklyn Cenfral. ‘Weod pulp exports have not yet reâ€" gained the high levels of 1928 and 1929 but this is due rather to the absorption <f woodâ€"pulp suppliese by Canadian mills rather than the loss of forgign markets. In 1928, Canada dropped from second to third place among the world‘s exporters â€"of wsodâ€"pulp, surpassed by ‘Sweden "and Norway. In 1929, Canada cropped to fourth place giving way to Finland and has sintce remained in that positicn. Canada enjoys about 10 per cent. of the world export trade of wocdâ€"pulp. . t Economicsâ€""It‘s tough to pay’ forty cents a pound for meat." Literary Digest: Patrick J. Lally, streetâ€"car conductor, sued for divorce charging that his wife frequently boarded the car he operated, sat oppoâ€" site his cashâ€"box and called him pames to make him miserable. Production of newsprint during the past two years has surpassed the high leve? of 1929, reaching an estimated 3,191,000 tons in 1936, an advance of nearly 16 per cent. over 1935 and a new high point in the history of the industry. This figure represents a gain of 70 per cent. over the depression low pcint of 1932. Demand is very active and some difficulty has been experiâ€" enced in {filling current orders. Prices which began their precipitous decline ir 1928, continued downward until 1935, since when a gradual upward trend has been in evidence. The index cof the six leading pulp and paper stooks reflects the public‘s appreciaticon cof the earning possibilities <f the industry.. The unprecedented drcp in this index from the high point ¢f an average of 126.9 in 1928 to 7.3 in 1932, was greater by far than that sufâ€" fared by the common stocks of any cthsr grcup of the official classificaâ€" ticn. Recent movements indicate a deâ€" cided revival of optimistic interest and the index stood at 45.1 in the week of April 1 against 20.6, the average for the year 1936. s TOVGH AND TOUGHER . Phone 302