The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Her
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Chas. F. Sandford
Owner and Publisher
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Alaska, under the act of March
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Thanksgiving Thoughts
1
Festive dinners and friendly |
reunions are not the whole of
Thanksgiving. There is a fat
more serious side to our annual
Thanksgiving festival, which
has seemed to escape many of
us, especially in more prosper
ous times.
The idea of a day set apart
to remember the bounties of
the Almighty had in it origin
ally the thought of a solemn in
ventory of moral and spiritual
resources also. A review of the
Thanksgiving proclamations of
the past half century reveals
the fact that not once but many
times the duty of gratitude is
enjoined upon the people.
Even in those far away days of
the Pilgrim Fathers there was
coupled with the Thanksgiv
ing feast a solemn dedication
to right living and a quickened
conscience. The religious mot
ive in Thanksgiving has been a
fundamental from the first.
In the more than 150 years !
of American independence
there has been no Thanksgiv
ing when the people of this
nation were confronted by \
more distressing conditions
than at present and never has ;
there been a time of greater;
need for sober thought and, j
we might add, humility.
America has long been the
wealthiest and most prosperous
nation in the world. Until the
past three years her people
have habitually enjoyed more!
creature comforts than any I
other people. The peoples of
other nations have looked at
those of America with com
mingled envy and admiration.
Our material prosperity and j
plenty have indeed been the
marvel of the century. And
with it all we have become
proud, self-centered and com
placent. |
Now all this is greatly j
changed. Millions of our peop
le are in want. Our long vaunt
ed prosperity has vanished,
industry and business are lab
oring in adversity to sustain
themselves in the midst of cha
otic economic conditions. No
longer are we so proud of our ,
great material sufficiency and I
plethora of creatures comforts. J
And may it not be, perhaps,
that at least some of our abase
ment is due not ro much to
the alleged failures of our
leaders and the manipulations
of high finance as to our own
neglect in times of prosperity
to remember moral and spirit
ual values and to recognize in
our frantic chase for place
and power and wealth that our
abundance had a higher source
than ourselves and our own ef
forts; that somewhere in the
infinite beyond all earthly vis
ion there is a master source,
call it what you will, that in
the long run shapes our desti
nies and from which in the last
analysis comes all our bount
ies?
Although some will scoff
at the thought, it is neverthe
less a fact that history portrays
many instances of peoples who
had become like ours, great
and wealthy and proud and
fell from place and power into
decadence and oblivion more
through failure to cultivate
their moral and spiritual re
sources than as a result of ma
teiial conditions.
Who, then, may say with cer
tain assurance that our sudden
fall from the worldly prosper
ity of three years ago is not in
some degree due to our neg
lect to recognize that there are
other things and forces in this
universe of ours than those
which most of us made the
goals of our aspirations and
existence in times of prosper
ity and plenty?
Just for Fun
-o
“Demand Unbribable Offic
ials.’”— Headline. A rather
novel idea, but it sounds reas
onable at that.
No use saying to the bride,
“with all my worldly goods I
thee endow.” She’ll get ’em,
if any.
Rafferty bored ten feet into
a mining claim and then aban
doned it. Another chap took
it up and at 11 feet struck it
rich. When Rafferty heard of
the strike he exclaimed: “I’ll
never leave another claim un
til I have gone one foot more.”
The Los Angeles Times sug
gests and awful thought. Sup
pose the millenium, when at;
last it comes, is held up until i
ratified by the Senate.
Drowned For a Nickel
A Scot was arguing with the
conductor as to whether the
fare was 25 or t>0 cents. Be- 1
coming disgusted, the conduct- ,
or picked up the Scotchman’s i
suitcase and tossed it off the
train just as they passed over a
bridge. It landed with a splash ;
in the water.
“Mon,” screamed the Scot,
“isn’t it enough to try and ov
ercharge me, but now you try
to drown me little boy?” i
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
November 1, 1922.
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A dance was held Friday
night in the Ocean View hotel
for the benefit of the Stewart
hospital and netted $260.
W. E. Dunkle, a mining eng-:
ineer representing New York !
interests, arrived to look over!
the district.
The Victoria Apartments in
Hyder, B. C., have been re
modelled and made more con
venient and attractive.
Word comes from Ketchikan .
this week that Clarence P.
Williams, better known as!
“Casey” Williams, was married j
there to Miss Amy Eva Crain.
A. W. Fox has built an at
tractive bungalow in the forest
reserve addition at the foot of
Nevada street.
An Allis Chalmers Blake No.
18 ore crusher was received j
by the Premier company and j
will be installed at the upper j
tram terminal. The base j
weighs 12 tons and the jaw 5.- t
280 pounds.
Lawrence and Workman, the
Stewart sawmill men, have'
purchased the big Premier |
barge that was used to lighter |
ore out to the ships before the
wharf was built.
Rev. F. E. Reddick arrived
from Vancouver, Washington,
to occupy the pulpit of the Hy
der Methodist church, con
structed this summer in the for
est reserve addition.
H. J. Scott, proprietor of the
Scott bath house, has taken a
crack at the high cost of keep-1
ing clean by reducing by 25 per I
cent the cost of taking a bath j
in Hyder, making it 50 cents i
for a shower, $1 for steam and
shower, 75 cents for tub and !
shower.
Rapid progress has been I
made by Wm. Fraser, the con- j
tractor, in the construction of j
the new hotel for R. W. Keith ■
in Hyder, B. C., and another I
month will see it thrown open !
to he public. The building is
76x40 feet in size and two
stories high.
Friends of L. F. Vaile and
Frank A. Metcalf gave an in
formal dinner in their honor on
the eve of their departure for
Juneau this week. The scene of j
the festivities was the Chicken j
Inn. Besides the guests of
honor, plates were laid for Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Tanner, Mrs.
P. Watson, Mrs. Helen Bell,
Mrs. Elmer W. Smith, Fred
Dorey, Walter Blanton, W. S. j
Orr, Eddie Hambleton and G.
C. Turner.
Ifenest ;$Uue
pj at a r n public
JJyi>cr, Alaska
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
CHAS .F.SANDF8RB
NOTARY PUBLIC
HERALD OFFICE
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
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LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Howard Campbell, Dictator
P. S. Jack, Secretary
Meets Second and Fourth Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
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* the services. •
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