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At that moment we spotted three British warplanes fiying overhead. PACGE STX "KHullo,"‘ my friend remarked, "gone up to do a bit of eavesdropping." "Wasn‘t he?" roared the sergeant. ‘"Then put him in the guardhouse for deceiving me." Angry sergeant: "‘Shun‘! Qulck' march! Take Smith‘s name for talk-“ ing in the ranks." "But he wiusn‘t talking," protested a corporal who was standing near by. The newsbills read in threatening type: "German Air Force Will Speak Pocket Chains §$1.50 Dress Shirtsâ€"$3.00 Tiesâ€"75¢ and $1.00 Mark BowWIE «) 1. VVU L +,)+3â€".*20) | £1047 ROGERS BROS. â€" â€" â€" purchase something lasting â€"just the kind of gift your friend would) want ysou to have, At Remus‘ there are so many lovely things from which to choose. May we suggest a fine watch, sparkling crystal, gleaming silver, holloware, Spode china, a travel case or camera, There‘s nothing you willl cherish more than a chest of silver flatware.* S price, $82.25 Jewellers â€" Optometrists 17 Pine N. Phone 190 You‘ll want a lovely corsage from Shephard‘s. Order yours early and we‘ll do the rest. ‘ We have just received a large shipâ€" ment of Fresh Roses, Orchids and Lilyâ€"ofâ€"theâ€"Valley. SHEPHARD FLORISTS Chest Included Other Sets as Low as $32 With your Christmas Cheque ... Cor. FOURTH AVE. and CEDAR ST. The One Above Hears All "CANADA‘S§ FINEST SILVERPLATE "Tails"â€"you win! You are bound to be amongst the winners at the various Newâ€"Year Festivities if you are attired in Bowie‘s Formalâ€"Wear Clothes. â€" Bowie‘s Formal Clothes possess that certain ‘Something‘ that puts you at your mental and physical ease. New Tail Coats in Venetian Cloths featured in the new Midâ€"nite Blues ........ $32.50 (vests extra) Tuxedo Suits for Semiâ€"Formal Wear Complete l §$39. 00 CARRIED IX Not To Be Oultdone See The â€" NEW _ pattern in and sparkling occasions through the yei for New Year‘s Eve Going Dancing New Year‘s Eve FORMAL ACCESSORIES Studs and Cuff Link Sets $1.00 to $3.50 Pocket Chains $1.50 Dress Shirtsâ€"$3.00 Tiesâ€"75¢ and $1.00 Surplus of $10,000 Forseen by Council For End of Year Thanking the Mayor and mambers of Council who were on the Council from the ‘beginning of 1938, â€" Councillor Spo@er, the only member of the preâ€" sent administrative body who was reâ€" elected to office for 1940, said that the news of a surplus was very gratifying,. Mr. Spooner thanked the heads of the various town hall departments for the assistance they had given him when he was learning the routine details of town administration. \ (Continued from Page One) Communistic tendencies. It was all a lot of rot. I didn‘t answer because I figured that I would be belittling myâ€" self by doing so. It was shameful, esâ€" pecially when there was a war on." Councillor Warren said that he thought the news of the surplus Was very, very gratifying. Mr. Armstrong, he believed, had shown himself to be a very capable chairman of the finance committee. In closing Mr. Armstrong said he did not know if he was going to in Timmins but added that if he did come back he would again go before the people for election to the town body. Thanking the members of Council for their praise of his work, Councillor Armstrong said that it was not due to him alone that there would be surâ€" plus. He lauded the Mayor for his counsel and assistance when taking on new members of Council and initiating them into the routine. He praised the capable town hall officials for their work. 17‘ PINE STREET NORTH AND COMPANY CHARRED WRECKAGE OF FINE STORE AFTER FIRE The Mayor said that it was very reâ€" | grettable that the term of the 1938 Council had to end the way it did. The ! voters, he believed, had been duped by the diatribe of abuse poured on the Council. They should learn not to beâ€" lieve everything told them at election time he said. The way they had been taken in reminded him of Barnum and Bailey and the "white elephant." ‘There were yet many things to be done, said the Mayor. For instance, it was a "crying shame" that certain mining properties were still exempt from taxation. It was disgraceful that workers in mines had to pay the taxes for mining corporations. "They don‘t seem to realize that that is exactly what they are doingâ€"that out of every pay cheque there comes something to assist in paying taxes for mines," said the Mayor. "Perhaps they do realize it and are not interested enough to do something about it. TL they are satisfied to have it that way all right." "I thought that there might be an agreement made between the Board and Father Therriault but the Board said it could not meet him under any conditions. In fact you were appointed to try and make an agreement between them weren‘t you?" Mr. Gauthier asked Councillor Spooner. "I wasn‘t able to tell them and me a Councillor. "I*+ decided that it had to stop. And this criticism of me. A Counâ€" cillor should not be criticized in public or insulted after he has made his decision," Mr. Gauthier concluded. Cou'nCillors McNeil and McCabe were absent from this final formal meeting of the 1938 Counril. "Well you are making a very I0Ng and involved story out of it. The verâ€" sion I have is altogether different," Mr. Sspooner retorted. Mr. Gauthier continued. He charged that lots had been sold on that properâ€" ty. People had come up to him on the street and asked him "Whose selling those lots over there?" "Well anyway," continued Councillor Gauthier, ‘"if Paul Gauthier was paid by Father Therriault to cut that wood he shouldn‘t have sold it. If he didn‘t sell it then Father Therriault got the land cleared pretty cheap. (Continued from Page One) "Â¥es there has been wood cut there all right," said Mr. MacLean. "I didn‘t know but what Gauthier had an agreeâ€" ment with the Council." Charges Wood Cut Lots Sold on Property are making a very long THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Mayor Bartleman took up the matâ€" ter. He said to Mr. Gauthier: "I think you did right in voting as you did. The property was retained for burial purâ€" poses. If it was divided equally between Protestants and Catholics all well and good but it should not have gone, one half to an individual and the other half to the Protestants. "And while 1 am on the subject," continued the Mayor, "I think it is â€"a pity that some of these gentlemen would not pay more attention to saving souls than in trying to help to elect candidates. I hope the taxpayers will be left alone in future. Election matâ€" ters are outside the province of churches and I feel very strongly on that. Elections will, I hope, be clean and aboveboard in future instead of having organized attempts to have men vote in the place of dead men and absentee voters." Golden Beaver Lodge, of Timmins, observed St. John‘s night last evening in the Masonic hall. The following officers were installed: Wor. Bro. D. A. Moore, W. M. Bro. Geo. Jones, S. W. Bro. Jas. Douglas, J. W. Bro. W. T. Curtis, Chaplain Bro. Ian Gordon, Treasurer Bro. I. T. Brill, Secretary Bro. C. E. Irvine, S. D. Bro. J. F. Anglin, J. D. Bro. R. Chalmers, S. S. Bro. L. Worthington, J. S. *Wor. Bro. F. N. Whaley, D. of C. Bro. F. Armstrong, I. G. Bro. J. H. Knell, Tyler Rt. Wor. Bro. C. P. Ramsay, D.D.â€" G.M., was the installing master, asâ€" sisted by Very Wor. Bro. E. L. Longâ€" more, Wor. Bro. W. Ramsay, Temisâ€" kaming Lodge, Wor. Bro. R. V. Néily, Sherbrooke Lodge, and Past Masters of Golden Beaver Lodge. After the installation, the brethern adjourned to the banquet hall, downâ€" stairs for a pleasing repast, catered by the Top Hat Restaurant. Usual Observance of St. John‘s Night at Golden Beaver Lodge A short programme followed the dinâ€" ner, the newly installed Master being the tâ€"astmaster. He called for a toast to the "King and the Craft." Very Wor. Bro. Longmore proposed the toast to Grand Lodge, touching on the situation in the world today and stressing points as to the causes and how they could be avoided. In replying to the toast to Grand Lodge, Rt. Wor. Bro. C. P. Ramsay told some of the amusing incidents of his trip to Grand Lodge last summer. This being St. John‘s night he was not the only one responding to the toast, he said, but all the lodges were doing the same. Golden Beaver had had a prosâ€" perous year and also one of deep reâ€" gret, for he had acted in the capacity that had been filled by the late Rt. Wor. W. W. White. After touching on many masonic matters he wished the netwlyâ€" elected officers and the lodge every success in the coming year. Bro. J. H. Knell played a couple of violin solos. Wor. Bro. Jas. Goodman was asked for a toast to the visitors. In his openâ€" ing remarks he said that on looking over the register he had found quite a few in lodge from all parts of Canada and the US.A. and asked the bretfiren to stand as he called out their names, He touched on the subject how memâ€" bers away from their mother lodge could make themselves welcome in other lodges, by attending them reguâ€" larly and getting acquainted with the members. Bro. Wilsonâ€"Thompson, "who didn‘t like being called the duel man" was called on to do something. He gave a lesson on music. This was a comedy talk on pianos, violins, drums and singâ€" ing, how they should be played and sung, but how people did it. He has promised to answer questions at the next gathering. In responding to the toast Wor. Bro. Neilly spoke of the fine hospitality acâ€" corded to himself and visitors in Golden BReaver lodge. He also spoke on attendâ€" ing Grand Lodge held in California for the first time where he met the oldest member on this continent and probably in the world, not only in age tut as a Mason for he had been a Mason | for 75 years. "If he lives till the 2nd of | Officers Installed Followed by a Pleasant Banquet Event. At that discussion ended January, 1940, he will be ‘N2 years old, and if any of the breth:sn are going down that way, I wish you wcu‘d call on him," said Bro. Neilly. The evening closed with the â€"Jun.or Warden‘s toast. Pallâ€"bearers were her four sons, Danâ€" ald, Allan, Jack and Herbert Phibbs, one sonâ€"inâ€"law, P. K. Mitchell, and one grandson, Lyle Mitchell. The late Mrs. Phibbs was sixtyâ€"eight years old, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. P. K. Mitchell, after a short illness. Funeral on Friday of Late Mrs. Isobel The Rev. Mr. Oliver, of the Penticosâ€" tal Assembly, and the Rev. H. Slade of the First Baptist Church,. conducted funeral services on Priday afternoon at 3 o‘clock, for the late Mrs. TIsabel Phibbs. After flames had done their work for well over three hours on Saturday morning, the interior of the main store of the Consumers‘ Coâ€"Operative Society at the corner of Fourth ave. and Birch street, was a glowing mass of soaked wreckage. Both photos above were taken from the front of the buildinz. In the picture to the right may be seen the icicles which formed as the hundreds of gallons of water peured into the structure from six lines of hose, froze in the freezâ€" ing temperature. The picture on left shows the intericr of the store, At the rear may be seen the stairway leading to the upstairs office near where the fire bezsan. CONSUMERS COâ€"GOGPERATIVE Consumers Coâ€"operative Society Our delivery equipment is undamaged and a fresh stock of meats, groâ€" ceries, fruits, vegetables, etc., is on hand. The entire staff has been transâ€" ferred to the nearby branch stores so that orders will be filled with the usual promptness and care. The Society is grateful to all those who took so ind an interest and volunteered assistance during and since the fire. The loss is a material one so it can and will be replaced. A true coâ€"operative‘s most valuable asset can never be destroyedâ€"its large body of informed members and loyal customers In times of seeming adversity one comes to know one‘s true friends. Expressions from representative ecâ€"operators, assure this society success in ever increasing measure. Everything possible will be done w make shopping as convenient as formerly. However, it is gratifying to know that the loyalty of customers is such, that any temporary inconvenience will be willingly accepted, Your order will be filled from Your order will be filled from Timmins Townsite, Waterloo Rd. 59 Second Avenue., Schumacher Orders may be left at either of these stores or at the Because of the fire which destroyed the Central Store last Saturday, the Society will serve its Central Store customers from the Timmins Townâ€" gite store, Schumacher store and a temporary office in the basement of Harmony Hall. Phone 1600 or 705 Phone 1610 or 712 Men are now at work clearing the debris and repairing the basement of the former building. Within a week the Central Store will reâ€"Open in the renovated basement quarters. If more convenient for you, the office will arrange to have a man call at your house each day, or twice a day to take your order. FORMER CENTRAL STORE CUSTOMERS ARE ASKED TO CALL AT ANY OF THESE NUMBERS HARMONY HALL BASEMENT, 39 FOURTH AVENUE TIMMINS, PHONE 234 Temporary Head Office CARRIES ON! Christmas was merrily celebrated at the . Riverside Pavilion, with xpeciall weekâ€"end dances on Saturday evening, | Sunday midnight, and Monday night, ‘ when large crowds gathered to enjoy the fine dancing facilities and to greet their friends with a hearty "Merry Christmas." | Music for the three dances was supâ€" ; plied by Henry Kelneck and His Merry lSwlng Band, whose specialty numbers ‘and dance numbers made a hit with i‘ the large crowds. Novelties, noiseâ€" makers, streamers, and paperâ€"hats addâ€" . ed to the gaiety of the event. I Christmas Week Events at Riverside Pavilion The Riverside will greet the New Year with a special New Year‘s Eve dance on Sunday at midnight, and a New Year‘s dance on Monday. Saturâ€" day, of course, the regular dance will be held, and during the Sunday and "I‘m Retiring on $150 a Month! Without obligation on my part please tell me how I can g se TT o 4o 2000000 ols ae n esn d K i+ 0(4 B NP NB NP Life Income $50 [â€"] $100 ] $200 $300 [7] a Name. ... es iss in ns NU is ririsa ns in kess ra ksn i. esns a S The Canada Life Assurance Company, $30 University I Should Say! / M M s No t . .. in fact I think T‘ll do all these things . . . P‘ll be able to spend every last cent of every cheque just as I please. ‘"I‘m all set to really enjoy life on an income I can‘t lose . . . maybe PW travel . . . fish . . . golf "Friends wonder how I can afford to retire at 60 . . . but almost any man with a moderate salary can do it . . . and what also surprises folks is that had I not lived to enjoy it, the Canada Life would have given my wile an income for life instead." We would be very happy to discuss the same arrangement with you. Gtme da Lfe Canada‘s Oldest Life Assurance Company Happy?... THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28TH, 1039 Monday dances novelties, noiseâ€"makers, eto., wWill be distributed. The Sunday midnight dance is semiâ€"formal. Telegram:â€" It takes money to make the mare trot. It takes more money to make the motor go. Globe and Maill:â€"Few things escape war‘s attention. Because of lack of customary foreign markets the eel inâ€" dustry down the St. Lawrence suffers serious financial loss. The epicures abroad also will be affected internally. CGHlobe and Mail:s â€" "Heil Scuttler!" is the latest and one of the most apt salutations to the Puchrer. Kincardine News:â€"A toastmasters‘ club is starting a speaking class for ladies. We might suggest as their next project a swimming class for ducks. Highgrade Samples from Week‘s Run of the Press ilâ€"iiérsit) Ave., Toronto, Ont. »w I can get a guaranteed Canads month at age 55 [( 60 65 [].