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i IKnitiltam Batd lianal Araoman uJAwA:' *" e B l o0 ons _ C 1 wereawukenedbythelmfllfl w at about a quarter to five in‘ the morning and had rushed to thc mtory to sound the alarm. Eleven firemen, five regulars and .,tx volkinteers responded to the alarm avd Mb after their arrival at the scone o: the fire the remaining volunteers md the offâ€"shift firemen were called. Thirty firemen, working with 3000 feet of hose fought the blaze for over twelve hours in the bitter. cold. OUnCH TT There was nothing new in connesâ€" ticn with the protest proceedtings deâ€" signed to upset the Timmins municiâ€" pal elections of 1926, further than it appeared that the appeal proceed‘ncgs would be gone on with. Railway Taxes # Db M 4Â¥ o#ai)l . Ten years ago, Marshalls and Laâ€" fiammes headed the commercial league and were going into the playâ€"offs scheduled for the ccming week. One rink would probably include; Walter Eccelstone, skip, Harry Herâ€" man, Ken Fitzpatrick, and Dr. Lou Hudson, the second with Karl Eyre, skip and Phil Kinkel, Harvey Graham Two Timmins rinks were selected to represent Timmins in the bonspiel at Quebec city for the Ho‘:t Renfrew Tr0â€" phy and the City of Quebec Trophy, and Mac or Wil‘s Lang Captain Jim Morton and Voluntcer Redden were struck by smaller picsces Of ite but were not seriously injured. ,Bm Aston had part of his foot frozen and O, OCheniér and "Farmer" Neable received foot injuries when nails peneâ€" trated their heavy boots. ‘‘In addition to Bill Boyd, who su‘â€" Lered a fractured skull when struck by large chunk of ice, falling from the eaves of the church, other firamen sustained minor injuries. In St. Paul‘s Anglican Church on Wednesday afternoon, ‘Jan. 29 ten years ago, Archdeacon Woodhall united. in . marriage Leta Anne Amy, eldest daughber of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Owens and Benjamin Mitchell, third son Mr. and Mts, Richard Mitclxrll of Dpome Extension. 5 charch an $100,000 building was a mass of rilin The caretaker and his wife masleepmmebnumentoftm building when the fife broke cuit. L Eo. v â€"~~_ Directed by Billy Wilder o A Perameount Picture Today and Tomorrow Darmg â€" Shocking â€" Drama of Flaming Youth Mitchellâ€"Owens ~®Eccelstone, skip, Harry Herâ€" â€" Mr W. F. Richardson of Wawaitin Ken Fitzpatrick, and Dr. LCU sent the following story, in a letter 1, the second with Karl Eyré, to the Advance, twenty years ago. It ad Phil Kinkel, Harvey Graham foilowed an epidemic of wolf stories ac or Wil‘s Lang. being told at the time and apparently ~ * !topped the tall tates.~© ‘The Auvance Want Advts. He had been out one Gay when sucâ€" Plus â€" "THE PHANTOM‘" | Today â€" "AND THEN THERE Episode No. 14 Only. WERE â€" NONE" COMEDY â€" NEWS "LET ‘EM HAVE IT" 4 ind t 02 Witig. * 1 j"‘f«”h"'uu'v 3. e 4 (6 ‘ $ v. . Warning to Wolves 11 21 ‘X family feud in Mquntjoy Tewnship twenty yearsâ€"ago led to jail sentencts of six months and two months for three brothers who had entered the home of ancther family, late one night, and had beaten the family up, doing a considerable amount of damage, not cnly to the cccupants, but to the .conâ€" tents of the house as well. Like the Martms And McCoys? â€" "Ladics night" at the Caledomnian Society in Timmins was a most sucâ€" cess‘ul event. Those who taook part in the program twenty years ago were: W. D. Watt, Mrs. A Roberts, Mrs. H. McCulloh Mrs, Gesrge Hale and Miss Jessie Watt. 1926, â€" Some municipalities had ‘made efforts to tax the residence <of way employees and the raillway was making "concessions‘" along that line, rather than involve the. town in liti« gation. Actual raiway property was still exempted. _ Ladies Night * The assessibility of T. N. O. railâ€" way officials‘ homes was before tne Other members for . nct been chosen at the time. northern ‘towns in at Mr. J,Nolanwaschilfof the fivre | department in 1916. At a shecial meéetâ€" mzofthebrécadeonJan.Bl A, P. Dooley was promoted to a First Libuâ€" : tenancy and W. G. Smith was mde fseoond lieutenant; Mr. F. H. Hill was i placed on the Hst of active members and also conflnned in the appo@:* The staff of J. P. McLaughlin store} | challeged the mwyees of Marshallâ€" Ecclestone "to a game of hockey (or | shinny), tobe played any time and afny. place to suit.”. thirty years ago. SPORT ; The Advance of Jan. 26, 1916, reâ€" ports two games in the Tisdale Amaâ€" teur hockey league. Hollinger defeatâ€" ed Timimins 5.2 and Timmins won a Rev. J. Douglas Paterson, rector of St. Matthews church, proposed "The Poetry of Berns" responded to by Mr. W. M. Whyte. The Rev. Mr. Paterson came close to causing a braw bricht nicht a‘richt. W. H. WYLIE ENLISTS Mr. W. H. Wylie left on Thursday Jan. 27, 1916 for Toronto to enter upon his military training. He had joined the Royal Canadian Engineers and was ttached to the 9th Field Company. . A mecetting of ‘the N.OHK.A,â€"twenty years ago in New Liskeard was called to. discuss the protest made ~by ‘Timâ€" mins over treatment received by the juniior team in Iroquois Falls. It rtâ€" sulted in Timmins‘ withdrawal from the league, for the N.O.H.A. practicaliy took the stand ‘that "everybody in Timmins from the Mayor down was a lar". Greco and Couture, two playets on the Timmins team, had been suspended. This suspension was lifted but the team never did really find out why they had been suspended in the first place. The team lost two games through not being able to have the players appear. Thirty yea,ts aBOo, * BHPVNS banquet was held in the fl{sfi% Ine camp.. ‘The event‘ was. held\ in the Masonic Han with néahy 150‘ present. A number of people of distinction had been invited but had sent their regrets at being unable to attend, their nax}les were read out by the chairman. Mi H. Campbell ‘Carson. â€" o 4 A referee had been attacked on Timâ€" mins ice, but who actually did the attraoking was never disclosed. ‘Thers were many affidayits to show that neiâ€" iher Greco or Couture had had, anyâ€" thing to do with the rumpus. _ . ; : First Burns Banquet A South Porcupine man mistook a ‘visitor for a brother twenty years ago and brought an aze down on his head. It turned ‘out that the man so attacked was a second brother with whom the aggressor had had no argument, The man ‘was taken to hospital with his condition reported as crttical â€" . ‘The Hagzis was made by Mr,. Hugh and was carried around the with due honor while "Scotty‘" Wflson made "bagpipe‘"‘ music on the piand. Mr. J. K. Moore delivered the address to the Haggis. Mr. Dowler, principal of the public school, proposed the toast t, the "Naval and Military Forces of the Einâ€" pire", the response being made by Mi. H. M. Martin Pavugquier wanted two pulp mills stead of one in the North twehtv years @go. At the time there were two 'tracts of timber ‘epen for tentier, each ‘conâ€" taining eighteen townships, It was unterstood ‘that a large firm wanted to combine the limits and build ohe large pulp and papber plant. â€" The councils had decided that it would be better to have two of each and with this in mind ‘they had corresponded with the Timmins Board ‘of Trade and the Adâ€" vance. They also forwarded motions to KHon. Heward Perguson and Hon. Postmaster H. Peters proposed, ‘"The Porcupine Camp‘" and Mr. J. W. Rerd desponded. Mr. Reid referred feelingâ€" ly to the death of a Scotsman who had Mr. George Preston proposed “The Municipalifies” ‘to which a reply was made by Mr. W H. Wilson, mayor. of Timmins. r. J. A. McInnis called. on the chairm n to. propose the "Imifiorâ€" ~Previous to his departure a dinner was tendered to the soldier at the Hotel Goldfields, a gocdly number beâ€" ing present. . 14 ben one of the popular pioneers of the Porcupine, Mr. Frank Malcom, a violinist and elocutionist of note ... "The Press‘"‘ was proposed by Mr. .J. E. Sullivan and was responded to by Mr. R. Pierce of the Toronto: Wurid, later of the Northern Miner. 141. mf James Lyons. again. Desperately, he tore o:~ his jacket, hnung it over a bouider, and h4 behind the rock: ‘The woites at the jacket with: such Torce, they broke their necks, "tvery one of Brotherly Love THIRTY YEARS AGO SPORTS ~As the first of the new series, which originally. gained recognition in the Saturday Evening Post, the story shows the ~riverâ€"front .conflict when the novernment after. the war, returns tugâ€" boats and ‘bar@ges to théir orfginal owners. While strugggling for her. old posxtion in ~the fleet, Tugboat Annie takes wing . exâ€"veteran, Charles Gordon, â€"wlho is. on probation, and fostergy a@®@romance between the soldier :and pretty :Pamela Blake, play- ing . the judge‘ssdaughter. :; note (regarding McGuire) could have heentairly well used, untill'mnkleft- ‘town; " in ‘practi¢ally every. game he played here, the only chandevhm!?j being the numbrâ€"of goals he seored‘ Al*}»sw ‘I.b Coâ€"starring as skipper of the opâ€" position tugboat fleet is Edgar Kenâ€" nedy, both players turning in excellent performances.* Topnotch entertainment is found in the Alm: when‘‘Tugboat Annie sponsors the career Of a tenâ€"yearâ€"old violinist, , performed ‘to perfection. by Saundra | Berkova, a child prodigy whose screen bow brings a touch of the concext stage to‘ b‘he fl]m PR SA i1 5 ‘ George Sanders is in his finest form as the man. (Ella Raines handles the role of his love capably. Although a little overdrawn the character of the viperish sister is capitally played by Geraldine Fitzgerald. "Captain Tugboat Annie‘ is the second feature and casts a noted Academy Award winner, Jane Darâ€" well, in the title role in the first of this new setries. The story tells .of the «efforts of: a member of New tEngland family hit by the depression fto break his sistet‘s hold on him so ‘he may find happiness with a, faghion â€"expert from the New York off,ioq of the, textile mills where he. is employed as a. fabric designer. : The, sxster As defeated in her.plot to smash the romance â€"between the . two when the brother severs the bonds that tie him to her The "Strange Affair of Uncle Harry" forms the first half..of. a double bill showing at the Ca.,rbiex on Wednesday and Thursday. : Cartier Feature Is Unusual Picture _ The greatest wild mustang. roundâ€"up of all time provides the dramatic backâ€" gound for "King of the|Sierras," which comes to the Cartier tomorrow and Saturday. s The problem.of building:an effective plot around the Federal Government‘s historic roundâ€"up of the great herd of | ild Arizona mustangs last Spring, in which. more than 2,000 animals weve driven into huge horse traps, prac:icâ€" allyâ€" extinguishing the breed, has been capably handled. Two ‘wild stallions, sired by ‘the same eszaped thoroughâ€" bred, ‘8re the principal characterrs. One is an outlaw among his own kind, the other,>a â€"well disposed, friendâ€" ; 1y animal; ‘who finally becomes doâ€". mesticated because of his affection for his ‘little‘‘coldâ€"son.. Rex, the famousâ€" black stallion, who is known to movie fans everywhere as the "King of the wild horses" has the villian role of El Diablo, the Don Juan of the mustang herd. Sheik, a pure white thorough» . brred, as Whitey, is the equine hero of | the filmed story. The human actors include Frank Campeau, who plays an old Wally Albright, as the young son of the government director of the musâ€" tang roundâ€"up,;, who is experiencing the thrills of western life for the fAirst time and finds romance and tragedy in ‘the battle of the two leaders of the herd, against each other and against the Arizona‘ rmchets, Edward Peil and mrglm Brown.> All give capuble perâ€" fMances but the equine actors easiâ€" ly car»ry off the honors, â€" "Tugboat Annie" Cartier Program RAY MILLAND and JFANE WYMAN face a fearsome moment together in Paramount‘sdramatization of Charles flckaon’s bestâ€"gelier, ‘"The Lost Weekend," At first glance it appeared to be a deliberate bid for popularity, a frank attempt to curry favor amongst the lads who frequent our famous hostel; an outspeken suggestion, no less, adâ€" |dressed to the presumably uninitiated and unattached â€"â€" there are quwite a few of ‘em at large in the district with their application forms not yet filled in, membership committee please take | note â€"â€" to the effect that those.defaulâ€" ters should wend their way to their lccal branch without delay. | â€" These ‘were his exact words, Comâ€" rades: "Go to the local Canadian L¢â€" | gion." which same quotation bears a | striking resemblance to something, we l,read somewhere, but we don‘t repeat it. We wouldn‘t want . to offend any |good prospects with.. referencee to a »sluggald anyways, f ’ It did look like a hearty plug for the Legion ‘but a more extensive pelusulj revealed a touch of aimbiguity in ths comphment that scemed to be intenâ€" tional.~ Our®snug ‘little hostel was merely included toâ€"serve as a parallel to theâ€" pleasant atmosphere that prevails in thost timeâ€"hcnored institutions. + The story relates how four young people find love at a state fair. ‘The. Pairings are Jeanne Craine, Dana Anâ€" drews; and Vivian Blain, Dick Haymes. The couples meet when the parents of Miss Craine and Haymes go to the fair to compete for a number of prizes, ’ including that for the best hog. The: romances ‘are quite ordinary though charming, and they are worked out in nicolor musical as ever rreated by 20thâ€" Fox, gives every indication of provâ€" ing .a tremen'dous;_po_pulrar attraction. The picture, unlimited in vividness and movement, exploits the tender pasâ€" sion for all it is worth. It seems everybody is in love with somebody. You â€"can leatnâ€"a lot about this, that and, t‘other thing. by browking through the Reader‘s Point of View Column in our leading*â€"daily,and we were, peppetd up no end.to come~aeross an epistle ih Saturday‘s issue over a pintâ€"of someâ€" thing or other down at the glueâ€"pot. Go far, good,; Comrades! We heartily: endorse this subtle reference to the pleasant.atmosphere that pre= vails at ‘our favorite hangâ€"out; not mentioning: the kind of atmosph@rt that thickens up on the night of a smoker when the fan isn‘t working just right, but all these little incon= veniences will be forgotten when we EL MB L e 6 $ NP ies ue apce ob oi THE: " LEGION 7 ( COLUMN 2 a r mso our yiew quarteraf" ‘imun nfid% ao- there i% wrore to: w sentâ€"mfindet . wasn‘*t nendingout an ,- effort to save hls future, it is told wun particularly enthused by our cluo rooms. Nowâ€"â€"we don‘t hold any brief For the English pub. We can take or leave ‘em=â€"st this distance off, but we don‘t hold with any bloke casting aAspersions at our glueâ€"pat. It just isn‘t in the constitution, aithough P. J. alâ€". ways insists that we haven‘t got ons. Maybe one present site could be imâ€" proved upon â€"â€" who said it and we‘re not denying that the Branch membership has Ooutgrown the builiâ€" ing. These disadvantages can be recâ€" tified. They will be shortiy. What ’mtbers most is the spirit of comradeâ€" ship to be found down thore. The Leâ€" gion Hall is a spot for men who have campaigned together â€"â€" a place wiherse old fires can be reâ€"kindled under | endurable conditions, _ Don‘t forget the General Meeting on ‘the evening of Wednesday, January ‘80th, . Having elected your Executive Committee it is your duty to see them properly installed. There will be other «committees to appoint and a new nomâ€" inee to elect, to fill the post of presiâ€" dGent of the Branch, vacated by Comâ€" : t y J. H. Knell. ‘FEditor‘s Note: Mr. Knell. fails to state in . what. direction .the. daily. is leading. We think we understand. Gay Comedy Coming To Palace Theatre rade Quinn. Sure there was hardship and danâ€" ger â€"â€" nice to talk about now and look back upon; and there was the od spot of hilarity that makes pleasant remembering. That‘s what helps to provide the pleasant atmosphere. There is, in short, an instinctive drawing together between men who have endured that make for complete harmony at all times The man who cannot fall in with this spirit receives short shrift. ooo tw c on ht ut ut iA :n " A C C n o) nds ie 5 John Hancock at the end: of hnis létser and some day he may see things in a different light, We might add.that an cffer of five bucks to help a palâ€"â€"any old pal â€"=â€" on his way back to where he can find an English pub is not to be sneezed at â€"â€" not in these hard times ~â€" with the Chief of Police clamping down on the Bingo, and everything. That five bucks â€"â€" if it‘s still availâ€" able, would go part of the way toward raising the new Legion Hall where the pal‘ will be able to find all the com forts, the pleasant atmosphere of an English pub, and more with it, without the inconvenience of travelling sop iar to find it. QOur correspondent is also agin "Roll Me Over". He seems to be agin a lot of things. "Roll Me Over" may mnot be exactly Metropolitan Opera but everything has its time and place. He claims that "Roll Me Over" is far from being music, but it does seem to lenu itself to lusty yodelling, which, after all, is sometimes all that matters. This is a democratic country ant ; every man is entitled to shoot off his neck if he feels like it. Our corresâ€" pondent was frank enough to place his v Poor Ken, already in the soup with Patty, founders more and. more deceyâ€" ly, â€" gradually involving â€" everyone around him in a mad mixup. One hilarious episode follows another . . . with the garter apearing and Cis= appearing like Alice‘s white rabbit. Dennis, O‘Keefe and Maric McDonam are a riotous comedy team, making the most of the funny dialogue and tobe"- turvey situations. And Binnie Barnes, Jerome Cowan and J. Carroll Naish gai‘y T}lfid_l.d. up "Getting Gertie‘s Gafter," a rollickâ€" ing comedy produced by Edward Small, will be whooping it up at the Palsazss Theatre beginning Sunday midnight. The fast and furious tale of a young Riverside Pavilion ~For Top Dancing Enjoyment (Bookings for Spring .Dy.nces and Parties Nfiw ‘a!cceyted) o n n o T e s k. Every Saturday® "THE HOME OF HAPPY FEET" HENRY KELNECK HIS TRUMPET AND ~HI§ ORCHESTRA ’7 44 â€"___THURBDAY, JANUARY Sist ~1046° Presents Dennis O‘Keefe and .. Marie. "The Bcody" McDonald call the laughs in the parts of Ken Ford, and unvgnd-comms young scientist, and Gertie Kettering, the lady with the garter. In the days when Ren was wild and single he had given Gertie, then the girlâ€"ofâ€"hisâ€"dreams. an amorously inâ€" scribed bejeweled garter.. Now, whnon he is happily married to Patty, plpvd by Sheila Ryan, and Gertie is engaged to his best friend, Ted Daiton, payea by â€"Barry Sullivan, the tellâ€"tale garâ€" ter pops up in a larceny case. And Ken is summoned to Courrt to testify. Ken,. who has just been elected â€"a Fel‘ow in an exclusive scientific society, is horrified. Both his cargéer and his marriage seem headed: for ‘the rocks. And in a flash of anguished insplraâ€" tion he decides to obtain the gar ter from Gertie and destroy it. The ladv ts wming . but the garier is already enâ€"route to the: country home of Barbara Billy FAris, played by Binnie Barnes and Jerome Cowan, where Gertie is to be marriecd to Téd the next day. Ken . rushes down, with Patty in hot and suspicious pursuit.. Patty had innocently interâ€" cepted a call from Gertie to Ken. And jealousy had reared its ugly head, h h ctcvd UVJ 74 _ dA .o oh. FECCT And Binnie Barnes, Jerome Cowan and J. Carroll Naish gai‘ly . hold up their end of the shenanigans. || ; _ An added feature, "To The Ladies", a "Canada Carries On" subject, deals with their _ splendid contribution throughout the war years, and with the part they are p‘aying today in caring for the wounded and supplying necesâ€" sities for the needy in ravaged Europe. WEDNESDAY 2.00 p.m. Public Skating 8.15 pm. Dome vs. H_ollinger SATURDAY Juvenile Double Header: 7.30 pm. South Porcupine vs. Canadiens . ... 9.00 p.m. Schumacher Lions vs, Timmins Lions Skating Club All Day MONDAY 8.15 pm. MciIntyre vs Comâ€" bines . _ THURSDAY â€" 8.30 p.m. Public Skatlng FRIDAY 2.00 p.m. Public Skating 8.15 pm. Combines vs. Ankâ€" erite TUESDAY