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voting was as follows: -THE HAILEYBURIAN Vol. 27: No. 40 HAILEYBURY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7th 1931 Subscription Rate: $2.00 per year B. Normandy is Again Reeve of Bucke Township Defeats Newcomer in Hot Fight Two Councillors Beaten in Monday's Contest ass \ In one of the hottest municipal election fights that has been wit- nessed in the township of Bucke for years, Burton Normandy was returned-as Reeve of the munici- pality, defeating his opponent, H. Hollands-Hurst by 41 votes. Two of the three councillors of 1931 who entered the contest were defeated, leaving: the reeve and Councillor Stoughton alone of the former board. The new men elected are O. Ayotte, N. Belanger and R. R. Heard. With the exception of the last named, the entire council for 1932 will be.composed of res- idents of North Cobalt or its near vicinity. Mr. Heard lives onthe West Road. The vote was the heaviest in the history of 'the Township, it is claimed. Reeve Normandy had 222 ballots to his credit, against 181 for his opponent. There was considerable dissatis- faction expressed with the ad- ministration during the last year, when the ratepayers met last week for the nominations, but apparently the greater part of this was directed against, mem- bers of the council rather than the reeve. Councillor Thomas Poole, who went down to defeat in the election, drew the heaviest of the criticism over the work done on roads and bridges in the township, but his colleagues did not escape. Another member of the 1931 board, O. Nelson, also met defeat on Monday. There were eight candidates in the election for the four seats on the council. T. Poole, O. Nelson and R. Stoughton seeking re- election, and O. Ayotte, R. R. Heard, F. Radley, S. Craig and Belanger. The résult co the FOR RE B. Normandy -- H. Hollands-Hurst ~---- 181 COUNCILLORS LOPMANOULG oe ye ts th 191 Nepean gern.: = es eae Se 151 R. Stoughton 139 R. R. Heard 126 ReeRadley ---< 125 We hoole,= 248 118 S: (Craig: 2 110 O. Nelson .=- P96) CLEARWATER LAKE IS SHOWING PROMISE AS IMPORTANT GOLD AREA The Clearwater Lake area, in Patricia District, is showing pro- mise of becoming an important gold mining area, according to Phil. Rouillard, who this week received a letter from his brother Ben, who is developing the prop- erty of the Rouillard Gold Mines there. Mr. Rouillard stated that in his own work the ground was getting richer as test pits were sunk and that the vein, on which spectacular samples had been discovered, had been traced for some 2,000 feet. Two or three different properties would be diamond drilled in the near fu- ture and there would be consid- erable activity in the district. Mr. Rouillard stated that the season had been exceptionally mild in that section. There had been rain in December which re- moved practically all the snow and the lakes and streams were not frozen over sufficiently to al- allow the hauling of heavy loads. There was no frost in the ground he said. Frontier Mine Will Be Closed in Near Future Expiration A (Crna: For Sale of Cobalt to Affect the Main Property The gradual decline of the min- ing industry in Cobalt and South Lorrain is again reflected ina despatch from the silver town to the press on' Saturday last, con- taining the news that the opera- tions of the Mining Corporation are to be again curtailed seriously The despatch says: "Expiration of the contract for cobalt which the Mining Corporation of Can- ada had with Deloro Smelter, will have a serious reaction on employment conditions at the former company's properties here and in Silver Centre. It was stated here this afternoon that already about 30 men had been laid off by the company and that the Frontier Mine, in South Lor- rain, would be closed down en- tirely. More than 100 hundred men have been working there and work at the property, which is being confined to cleaning up, will be finished within a few days At Cobalt, there has been a re- duction of the staff engaged and Mr. Normandy i is entering on his fifth term as reeve of. the| township. He served in that} capacity in 1922 and 1923, was elected in' 1930 by one vote over N. MclIsaac and returned by ac- clamation for 1931. | mids SUS | Work is proceeding steadily on| the new water line and at the| week-end the machines of the McNamara Construction Com- pany were working close to the hill near Constance Lake. A section through the rocky ground remained to be completed, how- ever. Prevent Colds and La Grippe Wampole's Cod Liver Oil_____- ] .00 Ayerst's Cod Liver Oil 50c, $1.00, $1.45 Mead's Cod Lives Oil). 40° 75° tee or" 95° 1.50 Ee omen Te. (ae miam OD OO: Horchound and Honey £5 ()¢ 50° ae! ee 50° 57°*1.08 Cough Syrups Vaporizing Salve Scott's Emulsion_ Knechtel's Drug Store Phone 58 , the future of Mining Corporation here is uncertain. Mining Corp- oration will find jobs for some of its employes in its Matachewan operations it is stated. Its co- |balt contract has prolonged its work here and in Silver Centre, and heavy shipments of that min- eral have been made from both Cobalt and Silver Centre". NEGLIGENCE CHARGE LAID AGAINST DRIVER IN FATAL ACCIDENT William Fraboni, driver of the truck which fatally injured Chas. Brazeau in Cobalt on June 6th last, will face a charge laid under Section 284 of the Motor Vehicle Act, in police court at Cobalt be- fore Magistrate Atkinson on Saturday. The charge was laid following the inquest held into the death of Brazeau, when the jury embodied in their verdict the view that Eraboni "might have used better judgment in the lookout he kept'" when approach- ing the scene of the fatality. 3razeau. was struck by the truck which Eraboni was driving as he was repairing a manhole on a Cobalt street. He died in Timmins on September 4th, after spending some months in two different hospitals. Convicted of Canoe Theft Gets Three Month Sentence Peter Proulx of Latchford, was sentenced to three months in jail here yesterday, when' he was convicted before His Honor Judge Hartman, of the theft of a canoe at Trout Lake last summer. The canoe was the property of Capt. Landry, of the Nipissing, and Proulx's defence was that he had intended to return it, but ice and slush on the lake made this 1m- possible. He had elected for a Ferguson Avenue Haileybury speedy trial before the Judge. are on the and Idaho, the], time and named. Harrison, went into the' tthe Great Bear Lake Region to See Enormous Development Charles Sloan, Pioneer Trapper One of Great Mining Fields of Northwest, Says Area Will be of World; Was Beaten by Gilbert Labine to Hunter Bay by a Few Days That the surface of the new mining field at Great Bear Lake has been scarcely scratched, that present discoveries have been on "a tremendous scale" and that even greater discoveries will ev- entually be made to make the area one of the great mining fields of the world were a few of the opinions expressed by Mr. Charles Sloan, pioneer trapper of the Great Bear Lake region, while in Haileybury over the week-end. Mr. Sloan, a Kentuckian, Bear Lake country years previous to the startling discoveries of Radium, silver and copper made by Mr. Gilbert La- bine, of Haileybury, which first attracted international attention to the area. He is now associated with the Great Bear Lake Syndi- cate, of which Mr. J. J. Byrne of this town is trustee, as prospec- tor, and came out from the North west last week after a 'Season's work for the syndicate. He has been in the Great Bear Lake re- gion for nearly twenty years. Mr. Sloan predicted a tremend- ous development for the new mining field on the strength of the rich discoveries that have al- ready been made in a short space tall, lived in the Great for some of time and over a comparatively area of an immense field. up ~ in that country is on a big scale," he said. "The lakes are big, the rivers are big, the country is en- ormous--and the mining finds same scale." to Canada from Utah where he had been en- gaged in prospecting, Mr. Sloan Columbia for a with a partner small "Everything Coming was in British then, Bear Lake area by canoe from headwaters of the Findlay River. He told many incidents of his years in the Great Bear Lake where the partners made} region, their living by trapping. They were so isolated for long periods | 'lof time that they did not learn of the World War until the early soft-spoken |8§ summer of 1915. For several seasons he trapped alone, his partner having gone on to other districts. Mr. Sloan told of a thrilling experience while cross- ing Great Bear Lake in a covered York boat with a party of men, running into a storm when with- in ten miles of their destination. The storm swept them off their course toward the eastern end of the lake during the entire night and in the darkness and snow they were unable to catch any dimpse of shore. They heard breakers, finally, and the boat was flung up om the rocks. They had been wrecked not far from their starting-place and were marooned five days before they {could start out again. Mr. Sloan left the Bear Lake country a few years ago when the fur trade was on the wane and went to Flin Flon, returning to the Northwest in 1929 with the object of staking copper deposits he had seen at Hunter Bay during his stay in the Bear Lake field. He became connected with the Dominion Explorers while on his journey back but could not ob- tain use of an airplane, being as- sured that there was no dangey of other prospectors being in the country. However, Gilbert La- bine, of Haileybury, was already in the country ahead of him, beating him in by a matter of a few days. Two of the great cop- per dyk at Hunter Bay are known as the Labine and Sloan dykes, respectively, having been staked by the two prospectors. When the Great Bear Lake Syndicate was formed, Mr. Sloan signed up with the -new outfit, haying left Dominion Explorers nfl has since! been' in charge of fospecting~iur~the ~syndicate- tht holdings of , which adjoin those of Eldorado Gold Mines and Consolidated Smelters. He was highly optimistic concerning the future of the properties, said |that many additional discoveries of great promise had been made during the past season and pre- dicted even greater finds to come. Fire Calls Are Twenty-Four in Year Just Closed Property Loss $5,397.00 With One Fire Accounting For Big Proportion A total of 24 alarms were re- sponded to by the local fire brig- ade during the year 1931, accord- ing to a report compiled by Chief Marcella and which will be pre- sented to the town council at its first meeting of the new year on Tuesday night next. The prop- erty loss from this cause was $6,- 397.00, the report states, of which the sum of $5,000 was accounted for by the blaze which destroyed the Boissonault Hotel, Marcella Street, about the middle of the summer. Had it not been for this fire, the year would easily have been a record for low loss from fire. Of the 24 calls responded to by the brigade, five were started from causes which could not be determined, four were chimney fires and three were caused by overheated stove pipes. Two cars and a truck accounted for three of the alarms when they became ignited from the engines, there were two grass fires, one blaze was traced to defective wiring and an overheated tar container caused another. One blaze in a vacant house, one where a match caught in some curtains, one from an overheated stove and a couple of fires in ceilings, for which the cause is' not stated, complete the list. As building inspector the fire chief reports the value of new buildings erected during the year at $20,000, a considerable propor- tion being accounted for by the new technical and mining school, a buildng which doubles the for- mer mining school. Fry Production ° of Bass Reaches Large Numbers Interesting Figures Contained in Report of U. S. Bureau of Fisheries A local sportsman who is an enthusiastic angler and conser- vationist, handed The Haileybur- ian a clipping from a United States paper with some very in- teresting information on the raising of bass fry and showing that these game fish, under pro- per conditions, will multiply very rapidly. For the benefit of the anglers here; the article is re- produced below: "Owing to the conditions under which bass are propagated ordin- arily little definite information is available regarding the number of fry produced in a pond. For this reason, says the United Statés Bureau of Fisheries, the results obtained in one of the ponds at its Fairport (Iowa) bio- logical station last summer are of more than ordinary interest, as it is possible to determine the number of fry actually produced with considerable accuracy. "The pond, known as D-5, has an area of about .8 acres and dur- ing last year was used as a spawning pond for the large- mouth black bass. The pond was stoked on April 27 with ten male and fifteen female bass. Three days later 393 adult golden shin- ers were placed in thé pond to serve as forage. During the spring' and early summer the pond was fertilized with a mix- ture of dry sheep manure and superphosphate, 469 pounds being distributed in the shallow water around the margin of the pond at intervals of two to three weeks. "It is the practice at Fairport (Continued on Page 5) BURGLARY SERIES WILL HAVE SEQUEL HERE IN POLICE COURT FRIDAY The sequel to a series of petty burglaries in Haileybury and Co- balt will come on Friday of this week, when two local men, M. Millross and Everett Davis, will appear betore Magistrate Atkin- son in police court here. The two men were arrested on Satur- day night by Chief MacGirr and Provincial Constable | Hoskins, and it is understood that they have admitted their guilt in sev- eral cases of theft and breaking and entering. Among the articles which were stolen are tools and flashlights from several cars and garages, a ladies purse and other articles from a parked car, chickens, li- quid refreshments and a Christ- mas turkey. The alleged thefts extended over a period of several months and the chief, with the as- sistance of provincial officers, have been keeping an eye on the suspected pair, with the result that the arrests were made in North Cobalt late Saturday night They are now under remand in the district jail until their appear- ance in police court tomorrow. Two Offices in Bank Building Are Broken Into Small Amount of Cash, Watch and Pen Missing; Doors Apparently Forced Two offices in the Bank of Nova Scotia*building were bro- ken into either on Saturday or Sunday night last, with the re- sult that a small amount of cash was missed from one, while a wrist watch and bracelet, a foun- tain pen and some stamps were taken from the other. J. E. Mc- Cuaig's insurance office and C. F. Tuer's law offices were the pre- mises broken into by the thiet or thieves. In Mr. McCuaig's office a small sum of money was missing, but no other damage was done. En- trance was apparently gained by forcing the door, although there were no marks on the woodwork and only some notches cut in the bolt of the lock were to be seen. Nothing was badly disturbed in the office, with the exception of the fact that the cash had been removed from a drawer. The woodwork on the door o Mr. Tuer's office showed plainly the marks of an instrument, pro- bably a chisel, which had been used to pry off the stop and had been thrust against the bolt of the lock. A wrist watch, which the stenographer, Mrs. Milross, had left in the office; together with a bracelet and a fountain pen were missing. Some stamps had been taken from one of the desk drawers, but all cash in the office had been locked in the vault Two other offices opening off the same corridor in the building were not disturbed . The affair was reported to the police, but so far there are no cues to the burglars. RN AT a CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY EARNINGS The gross earnings for the Canadian National Railways for the week ending December 2st, 1931, were $3,119,430 as compared with $3,712,981 for the corres- ponding period last year, a) de- crease of $593,551. \éd-a gold tooth was t4 7 Fire Insurance Rates in North May be Altered Adjuhtment Expected Following Visit by Secretaries of Underwriters That there is a possibility of an adjustment in the fire insur- ance rates in this section of the North Country, following a visit this week by officials of the Can- adian Fire Underwriters' Associ- ation, was the statement made on Tuesday to The Haileyburian by a prominent insurance man. The officials who are making the trip through the North are A.W. Goddard, secretary, and R. pold Jones, assistant secretary, of the Association. Leo- Messrs. Goddard and _ Jones met with the. insurance men. of Cobalt, Haileybury and New Lis- keard at Hotel MHaileybury on Tuesday afternoon, when matters pertaining to the relations of the agents with the Association were discussed from various angles. They have gone further north, making a survey of conditions at the various centres. It is stated by local men that there is a strong possibility that Haileybury and New Liskeard will be placed on the three-year basis for insurance other than mercantile risks, insofar as the Underwriters' Association is con- cerned. This was the basis on which both towns were placed previous to the big fire in 1922, when a new ruling was made. It has been generally held that in- surance rates in the North. are comparatively high and the ques- tion has been discussed at various meetings of the Boards of Trade. Any change in the way of a re- duction will be welcomed throug- hout the country. ---->-- ----_ The latest. story of gold found in the crop of a turkey comes from Timmins, where it is clatm~ the Ghristmag bird of Mrs. Blake Martin. A highway worker near Coch- rane threw a box of dynamite caps on a fire in the woods, by mistake, and his two companions received treatment in the hospi- tal as a result of the explosion. tad ae injuries were not serious peg all || 4| a Week' W her 4 e Week s Weather ' 5) Week Pe Jan. 6th, 1932 Max. Min. Thursday =. ees eos 20 S| Briday 238. (Seenle® 20 12 Saturday = =e 30 22 Sundays =: 25 ee aot 10 Mon daly) 22-2 serena) 16 Muesday, 2 io: ees = 35 30 Wednesday --+------ 44 30 Total precipitation ______ .07 Highest wind velocity --- 14 Precipitation Dec. 1930 __ .91 Precipitation Dec. 1931 _- .72 Average temp. 1930 =__ 17.4 Average temp. 1931 --- 19.23 Highest temp, 1930-_----=-- 34 Highest temp. 1931 _-___- 41 Lowest temp. 1930 _----- 18 Lowest temp. 17g lg> seers 8 Highest wind vel. 1931; _- 35 NORTHERN ONTARIO northwest winds; cold tonight Moderate fair and moderately and Friday. X } a alt i ll atid lt late ate allt a A Special Treat! HONEY:DIP The Choicest Pastry, that festive season. Phone yc DOUGHNUTS will add to the joys of the yur order and you won't be Makers of "THE Phone 36 Haileybury Bakery 3 j 2 d 2 2 Z 4 disappointed. Z 3 3 Z 3 j pO a a ee ee a a NY a) ee ee a FAMILY LOAF" - Daily Deliveries