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Vol. 38: : _HAILEYBURY, ONTARIO THURSDAY, AUGUST 6th, 1942 Treasurers To Meet Govt. Officials and Submit Budgets Municipal Accounting Plan «Is to Be Explained by W..A. Orr in New Liskeard ~~ The treasurers of the twenty-two or- ganiz id municipalities in the Temiska- ming: districts have been invited to méet with | a representative of the: provincial 4 rament in' New Liskeard a week | from | foday in connection with the for- warding tojthe Ontario Department of Municipal jal Affairs of a' copy 'of their respective budgets for the current year. hae it coyered ranges _forth from [at rd to Teck township and from the tor nship along the Queebe boundary On othe east to James town- ship at Elk. 'Lake, and of the entire number onis ~ two. are, stated' to hayé thus far complied w ith regulations' and submitted the - pequired: ¢ Copies Ina third instance. a 'letter' is stated to have been sent to Queen's Park, Tite: icien~ tity of these three- Pesca a was not disclosed. a ' Arrangements for thé meeting next Thursday, August 13, are being' made through the South Témiskaming Mu! nicipal Association, and the notices were} sent out last week-end, following rey ceipt of a letter from WJ A.*Orr, ine! spector for the Départritent - 'on' the same day, Mr. Gordon said, and to the! 4 we Tuckeh R | HUNTER SAVES LIFE OF LAME COW FROM MARAUDING BEAR on 4 farm a few miles down the lake Haw he saved the life of a lame cow from: Haileybury by slaying an ernor- mous bear which had attacked her was relatéd to The Haileyburian on Thurs- day aftetnoon last by Tom 'Gordon; a mechanic working at the old. Argyle mine now being developed by I. Proc- ter. Mr. Gordon not 'only sketched particulars of the hunt, but displayed another member of the 'bruin family which he "had killed. with two well- placed Shots and which wasystill on exhibition at the mining property. where several snapshots~of both hunt- er and bear were taken by Bob Caskey of Haileybury.. Both hears were killed} he estimated the weight of the smaller oné at around 400 pounds, and said the other was_considerably larger. He had\ secured a license when he learned the animals were in the neighborhood, € pected to receive the $10 bounty te- cently announced by the -Department of Game atid Fisheries. Mr. Gordon said the big bear had apparently been on the track, of thet taw. throughout - the.-previous night.| bat had 'ot actually came into Close} s contact With her. "Smaller domestic } animals would have been easy prey for} a bear pithat size, he believed, and it $ though it had some plan} and) Association, secretary, Geo. of wearing the cow down before Fite clerk of Harris towfghip, >In "it, Mr. ing.a fing sattack. It required five shots } Orr referred to the meagre response} ta. till the big bear, he said, while the | from this district so far'as the govern= ment. forms relating to budgets is cons cerned, and he indicated he would be prepared to meet the treasurers next week on his way south from attending to some other business. At the meeting, Mr. Orr intimated through his letter, he would endeavor to instruct treasurers on how. to pre- pare their budgets cording to govy- ernment regulations "and the new classification of accounts recommended by interprovincial conferences on mu- nicipal accounting." On receiving the letter from Mr. Orr, secretary Tucker took up the matter with Reeve J. H. Siimhler-of Dymond, president of. the district Municipal / sociation, and thei, ip: vere. Sent OUT to the treasurers. After November 1, no private truck, or trailer will be allowed to operate more than 35 miles from its registered a special permit from and. Trade Board | address without the Wartime Prices The names of E. J. Allard and A A.| Ackerland, both of Haileybury, are in-| cluded in a' recent list of enlistments | with the R.C.A.F. at North Bay, the former as a member of the ground crew and the latter as an aero-engine mechanic. 'smaller one was disposed of with twe* bullets. 4 | Option Taken on Hotel mS a dele of Hotel, Haileybury are announced by the T emiskaming Hotel Com-. and an option Q pairy imi has been tact" with the eeribany with to purcliase the build- a view | ing August 29th and a payment has been made, The Hailey- burian was-told this morning. | The opion is good until All secondary schools in Ontario will closed until September 22. in order that pupils may e pursuits to relieve the under an. order of the remain 22. in other labor shortage Department of | Education. dj other | ng, | matches, C Company Men Had Good Training For Two-Week Period . Returned lee From Nia on-the-Lake; One Corporal Receives Commission Officers and men of C Company, the Algonquin Regiment, sae at Haileybury, returned home on Sunday Atom Niagara-on-the-Lake. where they had spent the previous two. weeks in iitensive training whieh, according, to 'those spoken to this Week, they thor- 6ughly enjoyed and at the same 'time gathered considerable military know- ledge that will stand them in good stead in future. They ali looked inthe best of condition, although the major- ity had accumulated a fresh coat of tan and some sunburn. : ze The. company joined up with ithe Algonquin companies on aly Wal at the camp, had some battalion 'train- and manoeuvres, sev eral reute and spent two -days at rifle ranges. This part of the training course they enjoyed particularly, ive of the local company emerging mt scores of 60or over out of a possib in the contest for honors. The fv in | the order of their various scores were; |Sergt Wm. Inch Jr., Lieut. R. D; Cam: ming, Pte. H. Bs Ramey, Pte, J. Spén- cer, C.S.M. J. A. Tessier. Pte, Ramey s a Cobalt man, Pte. Spencer lives4in New Liskeard and the; potters in, Bail- eybury. Capt. A. G. Moffatt, in Conenae tok the Caines jomed them at Torgtito en the way down, after spending some time at the cadet camp at Bolton. 'Me did not return on Sunday, but remain- ed in Southern Ontario and will ke a platoon weapon course at "Long Branch for. five or six weeks. One member fe} vc Companys mee high} over 'a year ago. are | "stated to have .| against Brockville for at officers' training course. During the training period at Nia- gara, the Algonquins had an inspection by Major-General Constantine, officer | commanding Military District No. 2, Two Kapuskasing men, Roland Ben- Joseph Arsenault, have been arrested and charged with the murder of Jaako Tikkanen, whose death in April, 1937, was the subject of a recent The two are alleged to have him with a motor car, son and inquest. run oyer - The Telephone will be Published Soon ARRANGE TODAY FOR ANY CHANGES YOU MAY REQUIRE IN YOUR LISTINGS To be of the greatest service to over telephone users it is important that the tete- phone directory be accurate and complete. New Directory Ou 75,005 A new revised edition will be published soon so please advise our local office of any change required in your listing. He show director your sands Telephone Directories the world over have proved to be effective advertising media; are pleased to offer this additional service. Always at hand for reference, the Telephone Directory is in constant of and_ offices throughout the North. and day out, homes in for a full nine months is covered by one low rate. we use in the thousands this district and Advertising, day in will TELEPHONE DIRECTORY = "ALWAYS AT HAND FOR QUICK REFERENCE Se eee r Publisher's Representative is now in this District be glad to call and you how well-planned udvertising will carry uge. to thou- sales mes of prospective customers Look' for it in the Classified Northern Telephone Company, Limited HEAD OFFICE ot NEW LISKEARD, ONTARIO Telephone Company To Take Over Last (Independent Lines Hilliard Municipal System Was Organized in 1921; Patron- age Has Declined ----_} The last of the independent telephone Organizations in this part of Northern Ontario will go out of business in the néar future if negotiations between the Hilliard Municipal Telehone System and the Northern Telephone Company Limited, and under which the property of the former will be acquired by the larger body, are ratified ¥t a miceting of the Ontario Municipal Board, to be held in Toronto on Tuesday morning of next week. 'If the provisional agre:ment is ap- proved at that time, the 21-year-old inunicipal system operating in the Thornloe area will end its separate ex- -istence and become incorporated in the Northern Telephone lines. The arrangement is that the telepho ies on the Hilliard switchboard will be trans- ferred to the Earlton exchange of the} Northern interests. There has been} an interchange between two systeims to that extent in operation already. made the a troubled The Declining patronage has road of the Hilliard system one in recent years, it is indicated. latest Ontario Government report on the subject (1941) gives the number of telephones in use as 32 but the count in the more recent issue of the direc- tory puts the number at only 27, of which 21 are in Hilliard township it- Self, three in Thornloe village, two (in- cluding "the exchange) in Armstrong township and the other in Harey town- ship. At one time, it is said, there were as many as 75 subscribers. Owned by the municipality, the sys- tem has been operated by the council 3: Land | notsby a commission, as was the n Kerns township, where the pub- med "system went out of busit Deficits in Hilk been charge the general reventte of casi ic the eonnsy and to have been met out of tn Tele- d by the over xes, and recently ae Noxtie eee with a view to taking the entire property. It is not expected there will be any opposition when the petition comes| before the Ontario Municipal Board next Tuesday, at ten oclock in the morning at Queen's Park, and the be \lief is expressed that proceedings will entirely formal. The application filed by the township asks that appro- val be given to the proposed sale of plant and equipment to the Northern interests and that the muncipality be authorized to dispense. with taking a |vote of the electors qualified to vote |on money by-laws in the circumstances. | Tt is stated here that a canvass of the township made on behalf of the coun- cil disclosed only three ratepeyers not disposed to sign a petition covering the points raised in the application. Ifilliard system was in 1921, according to information avyail- able here, when O. Bowman was reeve of the township. and it was fin- anced by debentures sold outside. be The organized BEACHED HIS CANOE TO LAND BIG PICKEREL FROM PORTAGE BAY When Bill Burton of New Liskeard, fishing from a canoe along with a visi- tor from Toronto, hooked a monster pickerel on Saturday, he was forced to beach the frail canoe before the prize fish could be safely landed. The fish one of the nicest specimens to be hook- ed in the district this summer, weigh- ed in at eight and a half ounds and was lured with a June bug anda bunch of dew worms, the proud angler told The Haileyburfan Saturday evening in displaying the monster. There" were other fish caught on the trip,.Mr. Bur- ton said, and among them a four-pound Iilack bass hooked by the city visitor, A. G. Saunders. The pickerel were of good average size, but the two choice specimens were the best they got during the day. Extra Speckled Trout Put In District Lakes, Streams Lakes and streams in the district re- ceived 25,000 speckled trout fingerlings from the Hill's Lake hatchery on Tues day, according to H. M. Grady, secre tary of the Temiskaming ish and Game Protective Association. who superintended the distribution. The fish were extra stock from the hatch ery removed to allow for the later operation of the plant. Incidentally, Mr. Grady got a nice catch of trout in Pike Creek on Monday, bringing home 14 with a total weight of 10 pounds. One was two pounds, he said, and the whole catch ran a nice size. Publicity sent out by government departments shows that rubber is about the most important item in the salvage requirements at present and campaigns for its collection are being held throu- New Liskeard Man |HAILEYBURY MAN HAS KILLED FOUR BEARS; « THREE FOR BOUNTY ~ | Joe Young of Fivernnty: well known! as a hunter, now has fonr bears to his! | credit for thé 'season, fhree of which) [are eligible" for the $10baunty recently |" announced by the Department of Game}: and Fisheries. The first he shot this summer was bagged before the bounty was provided and the fourth, kill was made on Tuesday afternédon near "the town dump where the "animals haye been seen frequently Since the. feed got scarce in their usualshaunts, There are more around this ¥ oo ever before, Mr. Young said» lay,and he says there is almost a tot P dearth of the usual feed that they secure, not a blueberry or wild raspberry to be seen. Even the small pin, cherries are being eaten by the animals; he says. The four bears Mr. Young has killed have all been secured within the last three weeks, and all have been found within a short distance from thé town. There are several more arotind? the Vicinity, he believes, and hopes to get None of Mr... Young's bears have been very largé,afid all of them and others which havé'béén shot in the neighborhood have been males. some of them. Killed Overseas. in Highway Accident Mrs. W. P. O'Brien Notified of Death of Soldier Husband; Particulars Lacking Official intimation that her hushand had. been the victim of a highway fatal- ity in the Old Country last week was received in New Liskeard late Thurs- day afternoon by Mrs. W P. O'Brien. wife of Spr. Wilfred Patrick O'Brien. who went overseas last spring with a Minit of the Royal Canadian Engineers nd who had been training with the ommandos in England. No- particulars were given in the message*to the young widow, although the cable from the Records Office stated that further, inf mation awould De seht her When 14 vAitable, Mrs. ; O'Brien, who is the former Lauriante | (Lee) Richie, and whose home is on} Rebecca street, said at the week-end that she had received a letter from ey husband the day after word came his death His communication was dat-| ed in the earlier part of July. S r O'Brien, who was known fal nds as "Biff" O'Brien, was 24| years of age, and a native of Walker- | ton, Ont. He was the youngest memy= | i | of ber of a family of seven children, sons | ment at Windsor early in the war, his sister-in-law told the reporter, } : and | having been in the Old Land with that unit for nearly three years. There are five sisters in the family. According to the message to Mrs O'Brien, her husband died on July 29} as a result of injuries sustained in a road accident, but there were no othent details in the cable to her. She told the reporter that her husband had mentioned in a 'recent letter, of being about to move to another location from the camp where his unit had been sta- tioned. Sapper O'Brien and his bro- ther were less than a hundred miles apart in England, according to Mrs. O'Brien, who did not know if Jack was aware of his brother's death. TWO GUILTY PLEAS CLEAR DOCKET AT POLICE COURT Two pleas of guilty, submitted with- out any hearing, cleared the docket for Magistrate Atkinson's weekly session of police court in Haileybury on Fri- day last. One was a charge of speed- ing and the other just a plain "drunk" it was announced and the sitting was cancelled S. J. MASON IS PROMOTED FROM CAPTAIN TO MAJOR Capt. S. J. Mason, former mayor of Haileybury and for over two years in the Algonquin Regiment. has been pro- nioted to the rank of Major, according to advices reaching his relatives. Mr. Mason joined the Algonquins shortly before they left in 1940, receiveda commission as lieutenant and later be- came adjutant of the battalion with the rank of captain, which he held when he was home last winter. He took a spe- cial course in Southern Ontario and} later rejoined his regiment, which had left Canada in the meantime. His many friends will extend congratulations on his promotion. Mr. Mason is a veteran of the last war. The Canadian National Railways an- nounces that the system had gathered 285,000 tons of salvage in 17 months. The livestock branch of the Ontario Department of Agriculture aims at es- tablishing 1,000 new flocks of sheep this year, and is assisting farmers in ghout Canada. securing new breeding stock. | dependents' Patest ae Of iElk Lake Branch by aS T.&N. 0. 0. Railway 'eetisae caulegun ites Seen In Proposal; Mines and Lum- bering Handicapped . " pegete of -the Montréal ive coun" try are not-going' to Tee their "railway facilities be taken, away, without a pro- test, according to reports from~ Pik Lake following the annotncement- in last' Week's papers that) the T. & N.O/* branch into that' section» was. to be alvatidoned. The announcement was > made by. A? H. Cavanagh, chatemair and general manager' of the -railway, and was-to the effectythat the service would be discontinyed after October Sist-next. | 7 . Serious consequences to Elk Lake itself and rising costs to mines oper- ating in the-area aré foreseen. if the railway service is abandoned; as the nearest railway point would be at Earl- ton- "The number of trucks operating is claimed to hdve reduced-fhe amount of railway freight, and one suggestion is that thesevehicles be withdrawn from Highway*No. 65,;and one mining com- pany is said to hayé notified=the T., & N.O, that' if, the. branch tis "Kept open all freight for its operations! salt be Drought in by rail, There -have been individual Protests from the area and thé timber.) Fopera- tors are hoping that somethi done. It isp pointed out that an 500 cars of pulpwood were shippe: out last winter, besides lumber for wars needs, and this is ltkély to be increased. Organizations §iff James towtiship where Elk Laké*is located. plan to " take up the question with both Walter Little, M.P., and W. G, Nixon, MEA. and residents of the' district-arée ai icusly awaiting results from their pro- tests. oh Le The present service' consists of two freight trains. weekly-over the branch. the passenger) Service 'having » been withdrawn, and transferred to the? rail- -- way bus lihe operating betwee Elk" Lake ane New: Liskeard," of Gy Deets To Extra Allowance Under New Order Assistance to ot Prigde Special Needs Provided For; Local Committee Appomted and daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bs BUC ha ~ Depende Sarde f O'Brien. His only brother, Jack, Jr.,' ae ee Sees pe ie ord ge is with the Canadian forces overseas,| nas Set nue "Ss ah of having enlisted with the Essex Regi-| - gone iets ave nd oe Obes ized an office ands committee in* Sud- bury to investigate and make recom- mendations for, additional allowances to those already in pay, for depend= ents of the armed forces of Canada. Under P.C.18 any dependents in re- ceit of marriage allowances (navy) or -allowance (Army and R. C.A:F.) may apply, provided the ie listed man's rank is under the W.O. Assistance may be applied provide special needs, such families, illness, calamity, or niother's allowance has been for to large where a reduced as by reasn of the prior claim of more immediaete dependents of the son. Application "for assistance from the Supplementary Grants Fund may be made by the dependents inthis part of Ontario. at the office of Mr. Keith S. Armstrong, Children's Aid Society. Haileybury. All applications will be investigated. by the welfare. agency investigator. Two -prominent citizens 'of Kirkland Lake and New Liskeard 'have been ap- pointed members of the voluntary com- mittee at Sudbury, namely, Mrs. Nora Fox, Swastika, and Mrs. W. H. Wal- ter, New Liskeard, who will act in an advisory capa social ONE ERCRUIT ENLISTED IN HAILEYBURY LAST WEEK Only one rééruit enlisted at the Hail- eybury Armories last week fo active service, the activity in evidence for some weeks past having apparently run its course for the time. The new man is Oscar Wilfred Lamb of New Liskeard, who. passed all his tests and left on 'Thursday night for Toronto to report for duty at M:D. No. 2 headquarters. Week's Weather Week ending August 5th, 1942 Max. Min Thursday . _- 81.2), ~59.0. i - 66.6 -- 62.0 = 658 52:0 Sunday -- =- 76.0 + 58.0. ~ 72.4, 508, Tuesday LONE SORES, 5 Wednesday -- = 24 71.4 42.7 Precipitation for week _.%_ 91" Max. wind (1 hr.) ees, 14 m.p.h. wr CO, "4 3 Sh , mi i) G9FERY- 7k