HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
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aska. as second class matter, under the Act of March 8,
> 1371).__
Cli3s. F. Sandford. Editor.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Trading with the merchants
oi- Hyder is one of the easiet
and quickest methods of put
ting more money in your own
pocket than you can devise. It
is to your interest and to their
interest to build up Hyder. We
all want to see good schools,
good churches, good public
buildings, good roads and
good everything in our own
home town-but good things
cost money. If we send this
money away, it is gone forev
er. If we spend it in Hyder it
will stay here and work with
us and for us to gee tnoae
things.
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Quite likely Mr. Ford is doing
a better service in advocating
a go-slow and experimental
program in the matter of avi
ation than he would by pro
claiming that the day of air
travel for the multitude is
surely here Such a pronounce
ment from him would raise
popular notions for which
there is not due foundation.
One« point that Mr. Ford
brings to attention is interest
ing. He points out that, as the
airplane is at present consti
tuted, the success of the ma
chine resides 80 per cent in
the aviator and 20 per cent in
the contrivance itself. Mr.
Ford apparently thinks the
proportion should be the other
way around.
Undoubtedly if airplanes are
to become as thick as flivvers
little should depend on skill,
but for our part we hope the
day will never come when
human skill in management
may be lacking in the navi
gation of airplanes.
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When a newspaper asks for
"support” from business con
cerns it places itself in the
category with any other solicit
ing aid. If a newspaper does
not make its columns suffici
ently interesting that readers
are drawn ot it and their in
terest retained, that newspap
er has failed.
If it does gain such interest
ed readers then it has their
support and when any news
paper has such reader support
it has something to sell th
business men. It has an adver
tising medium valuable to the
advertiser in direct proportion
to the number of readers.
There is no more reason foi
asking the support of business
interests for a newspaper than
asking the support of any oth
er class of citizens, for all are
equally concerned in the pub
lication of a local newspapei,
daily or weekly.
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It’s mighty hard to keep
graft out of public affairs «s
*a w* rontinue to elect
men to office who have long
ago abandoned the idea of
i making an honest dollar.
: The Department of the In
| terior has announced, through
1 statements made by the Geo
logical Survey, that mines in
Alaska produced $17,457,333
! worth of minerals in 1924, as
against $20,330,643 worth in
| 1923. The total value of the
| mineral output of the Terri
tory since 1880 is $535,084,
276. These figures are ab
stracted from the annual re
port on the mining industry oi
Alaska, now in preparation
! under the direction of Philip
5. Smith, chief Alaskan geolo
gist. The sources of Alaska’s
mineral output in 1924 are
given below:
Gold, 304,072 oz., value $6,
j 285.724. Copper, 74,074,207
| oounds, value $9,703,721. Sil
! ver, 669,641 oz., value $448,
359. Coal, 99,663 short tons,
I value $559,980. Tin, metallic,
: 7 tons, value, $7,028. Lead,
631 tons, value, $100,899.
Placer platinum 21.98 fine oz.,
; value $2,594. Miscellaneous
- mineral products including pe
troleum, marble, gypsum and
lode platinum metals, value
$384,728.
1 In spite of the gradual ex
| haustion of the richer gold
placer deposits, the gold out
put in 1924 was larger than
in 1923. The increase was due
. mainly to activity in the lode
mines in southeastern Alaska.
The benefits to the gold-min
; ing industry of interior Alas
; ka that are certain to resull
from the completion of the
] Alaska Railroad are rathei
2 slow to appear in the product
ion of gold, for the work of
testing larger areas of placet
ground and the engineering
work needed to complete
ditches and install dredges or
other power-driven mining ma
chinery requires considerable
time. The developments now in
progress and increased pros
pecting for metal-bearing led
ges will eventually lead to an
[increase in production. The
decrease in the total value 01
the ryineral output' of Alaska
in 1924 from’that of 1923 may
be attributed almost entirely
to the smaller production and
the lower price of copper.
Just For Fun
•'Tell me the worst, Doctor.”
j ‘Til mail it to you.”
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| There are grand pianos, up
| right pianos, and then upstart
j pianos, which the neighbors
; start before you are ready to
; up in the morning.
It is easy to smile when the
world goes by like a song, but
the man worth while is the
one who can smile when the
song is being played on a sax.
ophone.
She: “What are those holeb
in the fence?” .
; He: “Why, they are knot
holes.”
She: “Why, they are too
; holes!”
And so on far down the lane.
t Do you want to marry a one
ayed man?
l wit}*?
Then let me carry your urn*
i brella.
Another thing that is against
{the law, and that is the public.
i There is something decidedly
: wrong with a man who is al
• wayrs accusing and suspecting
others.
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The happiest moment in a
I fat woman’s life usually comt^
| when she meets another wom
an just a little bit fatter than
j she is.
I Alfred- “That young bride
j worships her husband, doesn’t
she?” *
] Ethel- “Well, she places
! burnt offerings before him
' three times a day.”
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“Now boys,” said the teachfei
; in the juvenile Sunday School
I class, “our lesson today teach
i es us that if we are good while
: here on earth, When we die
we will go to a place of ever
lasting bliss. But suppose W<
are bad, then what will be
come of us?" - y
“Weil go to a place of e^6r
j lasting blister,” promptly an*
! wered the small boy at thfc
! pedal extremity of the class.’
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“Got any property abou
here?" asked the tax collect
i or at the farmhouse door,
j “Yes, I got a small lot abou
two miles down the road, - re
plied the buxom woman witl
the gingham apron, wbo' ans
wered the knock.
“Is it improved?”
“Well, I got a husband burie(
J there, but I can't say it ini
proves it any.”
Neighbor- "I s’pose your
Bill’s ’itting the 'arp with the
hangels now.”
Widow- “Not ’im; ’itting the
angels wiv the 'arp’s nearer
’is mark.”
j One way of judging the
! wheels in a man’s head is by
the spokes in his mouth.'
Lost-A mahogany cane by an
, elderly gentleman with solid
ivory head.
To Let— In heart of city, three
rooms and bath on the car
track.
Wanted- Strbng, ambitious
man; one who can milk and
drive a Ford.
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| Just discovered the first saxo
phone was made in 1860 and
’ undoubtedly it was this thai
i really brought oh the Civil
War.
! Men are, of course, peculiar.
| But the average woman has
three butcher knives,-none ot
them sharp.
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An absent minded professor
from Harvard stood on a New
' York pier waving a farewell
. to hi3 friends while the ship
he supposed he was Aboard
sailed majestically away, leav
1 ing him on the pier. Which
! is the first authentic appear
ance of the absent minded
professor since the one who
last winter, laid the soiled
i clothing carefuHy ‘ in the
cradle and tossed the baby
down the laundry chiite.
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Farmer Brown: I've got a
new pig and I named him Ink.
, Neighbor: What’s the idea?
Is he black?
Farmer Brown: No, but he’s
always getting out of the pen
and running all over.
HYDER M. E. CHURCH
Services Every Sunday
at 8 p. m.
** Sunday School at 11 a. m.
Everyone Welcome
Rev. C. T. Hatten, Pastor
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