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illness of several weeks. THE HAILEYBURIAN Vol. 35; No. 50 HAILEYBURY, ONTARIO THURSDAY, MARCH 7th 1940 Subscription Rate: $2.00 per year Cobalt Seeks Aid In Solving Its HOUSE AND CONTENTS TOTALLY DESTROYED BY FIRE THIS MORNING f v | About five o'clock this morning Financial Problem ithe Griggs home at the east end Will Confer With Department Official at First Oppor- of Albert Street, near the Lake Shore, was totally destroyed by, fire which broke out from some| at present unknown cause. Wheni tunity Possible The Ontario Department of Municipal Affairs is to be asked, to give whatever assistance it) may in helping the Cobalt town) council tackle a municipal finan- cial problem which members of that body, meeting Tuesday night, agreed had reached a seri- ous stage. Councillor C. H. Taylor, chair-; man of the finance committee | mentioning the matter to his col-| leagues, suggested the provincial| authorities be called into consult-! ation, and town clerk Nolan said! he already had written 1 Gt Orr, of the department, asking him to call when next in the dist- rict. During the discussion, it was intimated that the public school board, by a majority, was prepared to close the Mileage 104 school, where one room only is open, following the transfer ot older pupils in the school to town last fall, as an economy measure Reduction in the number of street lights and possible cur- tailment of other civic services was hinted as a necessity in the situation which has developed owing to changing conditions in the mining town, and Councillar Taylor said the municipality's bankers were tightening up until some definite understanding could be reached with regard to future prospects. It is intended to pre-| pare the budget for the year at! an early date, and prospects, it was hinted. are for a raise in the rates in 1940, with the committee chairman intimating that 134; mills would be necessary to: straighten out all tangles, al-| though he admitted this figure was out of the question as a prac- tical solution to the problem. Dr. James G. McKee Died Friday ! ast At Elk Lake Home Member of Family Well Known In North Country; Was In Seventy-Fourth Year Doctor James Galt McKee, for the past 27 years a practicing physician at Elk Lake and a member of a well known North- ern family, died at his home there on Friday evening last after an He was in his 74th year and had a long experience in his profession, hav- ing practiced in Chicago and Waukegan, IIl., and later for twe years in Moosomin, Sask. It was in 1913 that Doctor McKee went to Elk Lake, then a thriving min- ing centre and he continued there until his death last week. The late Doctor McKee was born at Hamilton on February 2\st 1867, receiving his education in schools and universities of Southern Ontario before going tc Chicago after his graduation in medicine. A brother of the late Colonel McKee of Elk Lake anc Cobalt, he was well knowr throughout this section of the North Country. Surviving ar ehis widow and one son, Harry of Falconbridge. Three brothers, T.E. McKee, K C., John T. and Doctor Fred W McKee ,are well known residents of North Bay, and there are also two sisters, Miss Maud McKee Toronto, and Mrs. Delamere Spalding, New York City, surviv- ing: The funeral was held on Monday afternoon, with the ser- vice conducted by Rev. H. Bailey United Church minister at Elk Leake, and interment in the Elk Lake Cemetery. SS Major Norman Evoy, Kirkland Lake, officer commanding "C' Company of the Algonquins, has the brigade arrived on the scene the building was a mass of flames no hope of saving even the con-; tents. Mr. Griggs told the chief, that the flames had gained con-! siderable headway before anyone in the house was aware that there was trouble and they had no time to save anything. He thought the fire had originated! from the furnace in the basement. General Belief is Confirmed By | Weather Report Temperature in February Was Above Normal; Absence of High Winds Remarkable The general belief that last month was as fine a February can be recalled in the district finds some confirmation in the report for the period from James Reavell, official observer here for the Meteorological Service. The average temperature for the 2% days was a half degree above the normal readings fo rtlie 45 years in which data has been kept and while the thermometer broke no records upwards and indeed got no higher than three-fifths of a degree above freezing point dur-: ing the month, it also stopped a long way short of any violent descent. Mean temperature for Febru- ary, according to Mr. Reavell,, was 10.9 degrees, compared with' 7.2 degrees in the second month of last year and with 10.4 degrees for the lone period, as calculated from 1894. Maximum tempera- ture ws 32.6 degrees, against 40.8 a year ago and an all-time record for February of 47.7 de- grees in 1902; the maximum of 19 below zero compares with 27.4 below last year and is away be- low the record-breaking figure of 48 below zero recorded in Febru- ary, 1914. Snowfall, as previously obser- ved, broke no record in its com- parative absence last month, the final reading of 3.7 inches being a fifth of an inch above the figures of three and a half inches five years ago last month. In Febru- ary, 1939, snowfall reached 18.5 inches and the average since 1894 is given as 13.6 inches. There was no rain last month, atlhough for 45 years there has been an average fall of 1.8 inches; a year ago, only .01 fell. The remarkably prolonged pe- riod of relative absence of . hig' winds continued last month when 160 hours of calm were noted second highest point reached in this respect since the instruments were installed, only January, with 186 hours, exceeding it. Febru- ary last year had 76 calm hours. Wind miles last month were 3257 against 5123 twelve months be- fore, with average velocities of 4.7 and 7.6 miles, respectively.. Maximum velocity was 18 miles an hour. from the northwest; a year before, it was 30 miles, from the southwest. The prevailing winds were from the northwest 185 hours and 1256 miles; a year aco, from the southwest, 156 hours and 1815 miles. Most con- tinuons winds were 26 hours and 194 miles. northwest; last year 28 hours. 277 miles, northeast. Official nominations for the current Federal election will be held on Monday next, March 11th Hon. C. D. Howe, Minister of 'Transport in the Federal Govern- ment, will speak in the Cobalt town hall this afternoon at 3.30 in the interests of Watler Little been named recruiting officer for Northern Ontario, but there is no last House and candidate in the present call for men from the. Tegiment. Ma : MP. for Temiskaming in the present election. Mr. Little wil! Town Mourns First Citizen As" Mrs. C. €. Farr Laid To Rest Pioneer Resident of Haileybury and North Country Passes on Sunday Last; Link With Early History of North Severed After More Than Fifty Years; Funeral Yesterday The town of Haileybury this and Lake Temiskaming was made week mourns the passing of its in canoes manned by Indians, the 'Chief Watson said, and there was first citizen and a link of more only means of transportation in than fifty years with the early the district in those days. It was liistory of Temiskaming and the at Hunter's Lodge that Mrs North Country has been severed Farr's daughter, Mrs. Blackwall with the death on Sunday, March was born, and she was the first 3rd, 1940, of Mrs. C. C. Farr, who white child born in that section came to this community as a,of the North Country. Later pioneer resident when there was Mr. Farr was placed in charge of nothing on the townsite but a the H.B. post at the Old Fort, on rude log house near where the Lake Temiskaming south of court house now stands. Ville Marie, and it was while Throughout the intervening he lived there that he located the years she had continued as Hail- site of Haileybury and decided tc eybury's best known and most tnake this his home. highly respected citizen, whose The family moved here in May friendship was cherished by both 1889, living for years in their first old timers and later arrivals log house and later erecting a alike and acquaintance was al- large residence to the west of ways considered a privilege. the town, which was destroyed in Tributes to her memory are the fire of October 4th, 1922. It jeard from all sections of the was in that conflagration that community. None there are whe Mrs. Farr was bereaved by the missed something of her influence death of her sister, the late Mrs. and there are none who knewher Paul A. Cobbold, and her uncle who will ever forget what the Mr. Wiglesworth, both of whom community owes to her long and lost their lives during the prog- useful life here. ress of the holocaust. Mrs. Farr was in her 8lst year The early influence of Mrs. jfrom the weather viewpoint, as and retained her health until the Farr in the spiritual side of com- day before her death, when, al- munity life here is testified to by though confined to her home dur- the older residents. A staunch ing the greater part of the win- Anglican, as was Mr .Farr, they ter months, she had been able te together had a large part in the go around as usual. It was not erection of the first St. Paul's until midday on Sunday that her Church, which was destroyed in condition caused alarm, and it 1922. Mr. Farr assisted in the was about four o'clock that she quarrying of the stone of which passed away. it was built ,;which was brought Any account of the life of Mrs. from Burnt Island on Lake Tem- Farr is inevitably linked with iskaming, while the progress of the history of this section of the building, as that of every Temiskaming, although she was other eriterprise for the good: of of English stock and her birth- Haileybury, had the whole-heart- place was at Newry, County ed support of Mrs. Farr. Both Down, Ireland. The date of her were strongly Conservative in birth was November 2nd, 1859 politics and both left their mark and she came to Canada as a on this community. ; girl with her mother following! It was early last summer that the death of her father, the late Mrs. Farr was paid a signal hon- Edward Probyn. Her mother jor by the holding of a banquet to whose maiden name was Ruth mark the 50th anniversary of her Louisa Wiglesworth, brought her arrival in Haileybury. All the family to Pembroke, Ont., and in old time residents who could pos- Holy Trinity Anglican Church sibly attend were present on that / RE-ELECT COUNCILLOR WHO RESIGNED SEAT; HAS NO OPPOSITION | a | The New Liskeard town coun- 'cil is again complete, with no change in its personnel, as a re- sult of a nomination meeting held on Monday evening of this week. Wm. G. Armstrong, who resign- ed the seat when action to dis- qualify him was taken some weeks ago, was nominated, to- gether with eight other citizens of the neighbor town, and was the only one to file his qualifica- tions before the specified hour on Tuesday. At the time of his re- signation from the council, Mr. Armstrong also resigned a posi- tion as secretary-treasurer of the public school board, the holding of which was one of the grounds for the action brought by Stewart Francis, a defeated candidate for the council in the regular contest on January Ist. Holds Residence of Doctor Should Not be Assessable Judgment Given in Tax Appeal By Sanatorium Will Go to Higher Tribunal Judgment ina tax appeal by the Sisters of Misericorde, against the assessment by the town of Waileybury on the residence of the medical by Judge Hayward, to whom the appeal was carried when the court of revision of the municipal- ity upheld the assessment of $3,500 placed on the building. His Honor held that the build- ing, erected on the block which comprises the hospital grounds lis not assessable by the munici- pality, being a part of the institu- tion. At the same time, he found that the six vacant lots, not im- mediately in use as a part of the hospital grounds, are properly assessed. The value placed on them by the assessor, the late Transients Have Bad Time on Lake; One Is In Hospital Only One of Trio Able to Make Crossing From Ville Marie After Jail Release Three transients, released from the jail at Ville Marie on Tuesday and without any means of caring for themselves, had a bad time when they attempted to walk across the ice from that Quebec point to Haileybury. Two of the men collapsed on the road, near Burnt Island, but the third was able to complete the journey and secure help for his comrades be- fore they perished in the .snow. As it was, one of them had to be taken to hospital here, where he is still being taken care of. An- other is being held by local police ona nominal charge of vagrancy in order that he may be given shelter and food at the headquar- ters of the district. The third member of the party told Chief of Police K. Watson that he had relatives in Kirkland Lake and was endeavoring to get inte communications with them. He was the one who completed the 12-mile walk and secured assis- tance for the others and the offi- cer did not learn his name. In hospital is F. Lapalme, who suffered more than the other member of the party, R. Giengra. superintendent of! I St .Mary's on the Lake Sanator-|home address, so far as the chief ium, was given on Saturday last/could learn. They had been com- |maitted to the jail from Rouyn jand, having completed their sen- Neither of these men had any tences, were released and, being without funds, started to walk across the lake to Haileybury. The man who completed the trip reached the Marine Hotel, on the Lake Shore Road, where he told of the plight of his companions to J. A. Tessier. A farmer from the Quebec side drove out with his team and rescued the twc tnen, who had simply collapsed in the snow by the side of the road. They were brought to the hotel and Chief Watson and Dr there, on July 23rd, 1878, the) daughter, Louisa Georgina Pro- byn, was married to the late Mr Farr, who was a native of Eng- land who had sought fortune in \the new world. Mr. Farr, whose 'memory is cherished as_ the "Founder of Haileybury," died on |November 25th, 1914, and is bur- ied in the old Haileybury Ceme- tery. Surviving are one daugh- ter, Mrs. W. S. Blackwall of Haileybury; two granddaughters Mrs. R. E. G. Hayward; Trail, B.C., and Mrs. Arthur Little of Kirkland Lake, and one brother ernest Probyn, in Michigan. Relatives of Mrs. Farr recall that she went asabride to Hun- ter's Lodge, a Hudson's Bay post on the Kipawa River, where \Mr. Farr was stationed as an 'employee of the famous company. |The trip up the Ottawa River | jeccasion and many of them tes- \tified to her great influence, not only on the community as a whole ,but on their own lives when they came to a new and un- tried section of the country. Her ever ready advice and assistance to those who needed them during those early years were deeply appreciated and left a lasting im- perssion. And now Haileybury mourns her passing, while at the same time giving thanks for her last- ing influence for good on the whole community. In this both the older residents and later comers can join sincerely and all are especially thankful that her jlast days were peaceful and that |her death came without long suf- fering. To those who are bereay- ed. the whole community ex- tends the sincerest sympathy. John A. MacArthur, is $50 each.|W. C -Arnold, M.O.H., notified The appeal of the Sisters of Mi-|The doctor had the worst suffer- sericorde was presented at the|er taken immediately to the hos- court of revision and before His pital. Honor by C. F. Tuer, K.C. The fact that men are released When Town Solicitor Jos. A.jfrom the district jail in Hailey- Legris, K.C., received notification bury, often without any means of of the judge's decision on the reaching their homes, if they appeal he asked for a stated case have any, has been a sore point and declared that it would bejhere. It is apparent that there is carried to the Court of Appeals./"0 more provision made in simi- The residence has been assessed|lar cases in the adjoining pro- and taxes paid to the municipal-| vince. ity for the past few years. ies Eee ---- NINE HUNDRED DOLLARS The Haileybury town counci!|COLLECTED HERE FOR will meet in regular session on|LEGION WAR SERVICES Monday night, when the esti- mates for the year will be dis- cussed and possibly the tax rate struck. The Legion War Services cam- paign in Haileybury realized the .jsum of $919.50, according to the treasurer, Mr. C:. Ayearst, who stated on Monday that this sum had been turned in by the various members of the committee who 1S'undertook the work of canvas- this|sing the town. This total was There will be no school fairs in the agricultural areas of Temis- kaming this year, because of re- ductions in the appropriations from the Department for phase of instruction. ASSEMBLED IN CANADA, LARGE BOMBERS GET TEST FLIGHT -- é ' Less chan a week after they arrived from Eng- land two Avro Anson reconnaissance training pomb- ers were assembled at the De Havilland Aurcraft Company's plant near Toronto and put through their Scheme. also be among the speakers. test flights, These are just the advance guard of! Spradbrow. more than 1,600 Anson bombers which will be used in connection with the Commonwealth Air Training view of the big bomber is shown here, as it was put through its paces by Test Pilot G. R. considered highly satisfactory both to the local workers andthe Legion Branch, and it was stated that there might still be some contributions to come. Reports from various points throughout Canada while still far from complete, indicate that the total of half a. million aimed at will be well exceeded. Many places report double the amount allotted, while the community which falls short of its objective appears to be the exception, Sales of new passenger motor cars in Canada during 1939 amounted to 90,000 vehicles valued at $97,092,388. YBB2222283523.52254444 400 Week's Weather SOO S SSS SSC CCC CCC CCC CC CCC CS. Week ending March 6, 1940 Max. Min Thursday --2-- 21.0 01.0 Friday --__- - 16.4 -17.2 Saturday _ - 31.0 -07.0 Sunday 1 See 33.4 03.0 Mondaye 22." 36.0 24.0 suesdaye ase 24.8 15.0 Wednesday _____ 20.4 12.0 Precipitation for week_ .13" Max. wind (1 hr.)_ 15 m.p.h.