HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue, Hyder, Alaska.
Telephone No. 82
Chas. F. Sandford . Owner and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Hyder,
Alaska, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Tnis newspaper is not connected in any manner with any
stock brokerage firm or other establishmeut associated in or
interested in the sale of mining shares and publishes no in
rormation relative to local mining development that is not be
lieved to be in full accord with fact.
Have Faith In Your Town
Perhaps it is the result of
undue pessimism induced by
the depression that there are
some business men in Hyder
who make it a practice to de
ride the town and to howl
about hard times. In most in-1
stances at least these men are!
today, if not affluent, at least j
much better off in this world’s |
goods than when they came ■
here. And it seems to us that
they should a t least be grate-!
ful to the town that has pro- j
vided them with a livelihood,
in addition to making them to 1
a great extent independent.
If these men are unable to j
sense a feeling of gratefulness
for what Hyder has done for
them, they should realize that
it is decidedly unbecoming for i
them to malign the town when
ever they get an opportunity ov
when opportunities do not pre
sent themselves fast enough, I
to go out of their way to make \
them. But instead of stowing
vay their hammers, which
,/ould redound to their own
benefit as well as that of the
town, they strut around in
high feather banging away at
everything. The result has
been that the public—the same
public which has helped to in
crease their business and bank
accounts during the years—is '
pretty well wearied of hearing j
the rat-tat-tat of the ham
mers.
The wise business man never
knocks, regardless of how
poor business may be. He re
alizes that if he knocks, the
hammer will ultimately re
bound and strike him. Instead
of crying about hard times,
the only result of which is to
make the public tighten its
purse strings, he exhales op- j
timism with every breath, so;
to say, because he is aware!
that an optimistic public is a '
buying public.
We have the fullest faith in
Hyder and its future. Faith is
what makes any town grow,
and we are pleased to say that
residents generally have faith
in Hyder. If the knocking
one’s don’t entertain the same;
faith, then they should either
put up their hammers or find
a better place to go to.
History of Thanksgiving Day
The history of Thanksgiving
Day, as we know it, is some
what confused in the minds
of many people. Our Thanks
giving Day is a distinctly Ac
erican institution, altho festiv
als of similar import may be
traced back many hundreds of
years. The Hebrew Feast of
the Tabernacles, the Greek
1 hesmorphia, the Roman Cer
ealia and the English Harvest
Home all appear to have had
comething in common with our
national holiday.
Immediately after the first
harvest of the Pilgrims in 1621
Thanksgiving was first observ
ed in America. Similar observ
ances were instituted by other
colonies—by Massachusetts in
1630; by Connecticutt in 1639,
and by New Netherlands in
1644. During the Revolution
several Thanksgiving Days
were appointed by the Conti
nental Congress.
I resident George Washing
ton designated November 26,
1789, as “a day of public
thanksgiving and prayer,, and
n 1795 he made a similar des
ignation. President Madison
appointed a day of thanksgiv
ing at the close of the war in
1812. Various states observed
the day irregularly during the
ucceeding years, but it was
not until 1864 that the day be
came a fixed annual event. In
.hat year President Lincoln ap
pointed the fourth Thursday in
November as a day of Nation
al Thanksgiving by official
proclamation, and the example
thus set has been followed by
all succeeding presidents.
Washington’s oiiginal
Thanksgiving proclamation is
preserved in the Library of
Congress. The document was
ost for more than 100 years,
until it was discovered among
ome Washington manuscripts
being auctioned in New York
n 1921, when it was purchas
ed for $300 and restored to
the government archives.
Silver Demonitization
A Bo om e r a n g
“To the nations deciding
against silver as a currency
there came a bporaerang1 blow
which has not only crippled
their internal trade but has
been felt directly and indirect
ly in every coiner of the civil
ized world.”—Financial News
Vancouver, B. C.
Just for Fun
She—It’s only handsome
men who have halotisis.
He (sedately)—They ,have
to have protection.
Patrick—Use the word “boy
cott” in a sentence.
Patricia—It rained that night
and the boycott an awful cold.
He—I brought you a pet
monkey to amuse you, darling.
She—Oh, how kind of you.
Now I shan’t niiss you when
you are away.
NATURAL WONDER
r
“Is the lullin' K<md, sir?"
"Not very. Cut Why ilo you ask?"
“Well, you see, there hasn't been a
drop of water In this creek all summer
until the rain lust ni^Vt and 1 Just
wondered."
Nurse Girl—You niusn’t ask
•o many questions, Johnny.
Don’t you know that curiosity
once killed a cat?
Johnny—What did the cal
want to know?
He was a cynic. He stood
gazing at an exhibition of lo
cal art labeled “Art Objects.”
“Well,” he said to the attend
ant, “I can’t say I blame Art
for objecting.”
Visitor—Ah, dear friend,
thinking of your sad past?
Convict—No, I was wonder
ing what paper I’d writo my
experiences for when I got out.
TIME TO SELL
rr
"The thermometer was a hundred
at noon yesterday. Today It Is down
to 98.”
"\tvt isn’t that a bargain?"
After divorcing three better ;
halves we imagine a movie1
actor becomes a slightly minus
quantity.
Rival suitors for the hand of
a modern girl often run neck
and neck.
A marked increase in malt
sales lead suspicious persons to
fear that home brew is being I
made.
The owner of a cheap watch
brought it into a jeweler’s shop i
to see what could be done for j
it.
“The mistake I made, of;
course,” he admitted, “was in
dropping it.”
“Well, I don’t suppose you
could help that,” said the
jeweler. “The mistake you
made was picking it up."
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder Alaska Miner
November 30, 1921
The lowest temperature re
corded during the cold snap
L>y Oren F. Hill’s registered
thermometer was 10 degrees
above zero, which is 30 de
grees warmer than the tem
perature in Idaho during the
!ame period.
The first snow of the sea
son fell on the night of Nov
ember 26 and it looks as if it
had come to stay. Two winters
ago the “big snow” started on
ihe same date and last year
(1920) on December 15.
Development of the New
Alaska under Pat Daly’s di
rection since he bonded the
property, has proved most
'ratifying. Values over the
entire ore showings of the
property run from $15 to $150
per ton, which is far above the
surface values found on the
premier, while the ore is al
nost identical in character.
Dr. R. N. Rogers has gone to
Ketchikan and Petersburg to
ook over those towns with a
/ievv to locating.
The Bay View group, situ
ited on the west side of Bear
Hver has been bonded by
^apt. John Irving of Victoria.
The group is owned by Geo.
Cameron, Will. Cameron and
?. S. Jack, of Stewart.
Mr. and Mrs. Wrn. McDon
lell are now occupying B. M.
Stone’s residence in the forest
reserve.
That Ilyder is to have a j
wharf soon seems now a prac
tical certainty. Joseph Ulmer,
road commissioner for the
First Division, arrived on the i
Carmen this week and has;
ben busy since making a hy
drographic survey of Hyder’s
waterfront and taking sound
ings.
The Dorey Transfer have
built a house on the scow
which they use for bringing
passengers and freight ashore !
from boats in the harbor. They j
were unable to do so before
owing to the old biidge over j
the creek channel, now re-!
moved.
Roscoe, the Fish Creek road- j
house bear, has been gone for
a week and it is believed she
has made a den and holed up
for the winter.
Howard Cameron, manager
of the Silverado, and D. B.
Stewart, Territorial mine in
spector, visited the Lucky Boy
on Fish Creek recently. Both
were highly pleased with the
showing and predict that fur
ther development will result
in placing another productive
mine on the map.
Father Leray of Prince Ru
pert is paying one of his per
iodical visits to Stewart.
Fred Dory took a crew of
men down the Canal this week
to get out piling to build a
walk from First street to the
wireless station, which is being
put up by downtown business
men.
Judging from the way the
-•amp has grown during the
year, anon, if not before that,
Hyder will have a voting pop
ulation sufficient to move the
capital of Alaska here (if we
wanted to adopt a hoodoo) or
to control any election in the
First division. The party in
power may well profit now by
this fact.
INTERESTING NOTES
Air pilot’s certificates are
held by 10,000 men and wom
en in England.
An average of five persons
die from tuberculosis each day
in Philadelphia.
What’s New?
The long sought method ol'
applying designs and colors- to
mohair in volume production
has been discovered.
An instrument has been per
fected to make “still” or slow
motion pictures of machineiy
moving at high sped.
Food can be cooked on a
dining table by placing over it
a new cover that contains a
heating element.
A new process lor making
starch from sweet potato culls,
of great importance to the
agricultural South, has been
found by the U. S. Department
of Agriculture.
Automatic emergency brakes
for automobiles invented by a
Los Angeles man are inoper
ative us long as the reguar
brakes work and are put. :nto
service by pressing a val /e
button. i 1 4*^?
OUTSTANDING RADIO VALUES
The New Crosley Battery Show Boy—
Screen grid, new 2 volt tubes, push
pull oulput, uses new cell “A” bat
tery, no light current, no batteries
to charge—$49.50 complete, less bat
teries.
The Crosley Play Boy— Eight tube
superhetrodyne pentode, screen grid,
moving coil dynamic speaker—com
plete $52.25.
THE NUGGET SHOP
Jewelry made to order—repair work,
anything in jewelry at short notice.
PROFESSIONAL
^ntest pUue
,Aitomcg at ‘Jfi’aw
JTgiurr, flasks
FRANK A, METCALF
am & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
CHAS ,F. CANDFORD
NOTARY PUBLIC
HERALD OFFICE
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
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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* Hyder Methodist Episcopal Church *
* Rev. H. R. Cross, Pastor *
* Sunday School at 10:30 a. m. *
* Evening Service at 7:30 p. m. *
* Everyone is cordially invited to *
* the services. *
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