THE
McCarthy weekly news
Entered as second class matter. Septem
ber 17th, 1918. at the tost Office, at
McCarthy. Alaska, under the Act of
March 3. 1879.
L. M. Lander
R. E. Lander
Manager
Editor
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Saturday July 14, 1923.
In Defence of the Small
Town
But a few days ago we reed a pithy
paragraph from the pen of—we can’t
recall whom—quoting Elbert Hubbards
statement that God made the country,
man; the city, and the devil, the small
town. We’ll not dispute the statement
because, to quote the pith of the pa.
ragraph ’’Elbert was a wise old bird.”
But we will rise to remark that his sa
tanic majesty peopled his handiwork
with Human Beings, anyhow.
The noted journalist, who has since
quitted this vale of printer’s ink and
gone where all good editors go, is fur
ther puoted as branding all small towns
as ’’character assassins.” That’s going it
a bi t strong. The person who takes that
stand takes himself too seriously. We’d
venture to say that most of us could
count on the fingers of one hand the
really worth-while people that we know
of—except in fiction—whose lives have
been blighted by the ’’venomous tongue
of slander”.
He who takes himself and ’’They say,’
too seriously forgets that it is applied
impartially to Mrs. Brown’s city gown’s
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NOTICE TO PAY SCHOOL TAX j
Notice Is Hereby Given that
the undersigned has been duly appoin
ted School Tax Collector for McCar
thy District in conformity with Alaska
Session Laws, 1916, and amendments
thereto.
All male persons between the ages
of twenty-oife and fifty years, except
soldiers in the U.S. Army or sailors in
the Revenue Cutter Service, volunteer
firemen, paupers and insane persons,
are subject to a tax in the sum of Five
($5.0o) Dollars.
Should you be living in Alaska pri
or to the first Monday in April, 1923
said tax is delinquent after May 1st,
1923. Should you arrive in Alaska la
ter than the first date above mentioned
tax will be delinquent thirty days after
your arrival, or ten days after notice is
given you.
All persons, firms or corporations
employing labor shall furnish list of
employees to collector and are author
ized by law to deduct amount of tax
from wages of employees.
Fines and imprisonment are provid
ed by the Act above quoted for those
who neglect to pay tax or furnish list
of employees.
Dated at McCarthy,, Alaska, May 10th
1923.
R. E. Lander
School Tax Collector for McCarthy
District
toMaybelle Jones’s ’’petting parties”
and the Smith baby’s having a nurse
maid. He also fails to recall the time
when he was laid up with a broken leg
and almost died of indigestion trying to
eat up all the dishes brot in to tempt
his appetite or how the neighbors did
every thing but the marrying at his sis
ter’s wedding.
It‘s rather better for one s nervous
System to be warned of coming events
by neighborly gossip than to come
home and find the wife and all her
personal effects gone, or to be summon
ed to court to pay a fine for one's child
ren, arrested at a raid on a notorious
roadhouse.
There may be them that likes the
city; where even Mrs. DeWooFs Pe
kingese, that we've met returning from
its daily airing for the last year passes
us without even friendly sniff: but as
give us the small town with its friend
ly, "Did you hear?” We don’t care
who made it.
i
si McCarthy m
m DRUGSTORE 88
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Pete Doich, J . B. O’Neill,
their heirs, assigns and personal
representatives:
You, and each of you,
are hereby notified that I have expen
ded five hundred dollars ($500.00) in
labor and improvements upon the
"RAMBLER No. 4”,#”RAMBLER
No. 6”, ’’RAMBLER No. 7”, ’’RA
MBLER No. 8”, and ’’CAMP SI
TE” mining claims, on the right limit
of Dan Creek in the Nizina (unorga
nized) Mining District, Third Division
of the Territory of Alaska, as will
appear by Proof of Labor, duly sworn
to, and filed for record in the office of
the United States Commissioner and
ex officio Recorder for the McCarthy
Recording Precinct, mining district a- I
foresaid, on the 24th day of July, 1922, f
in order to hold said premises under a
and by virtue of the provisions of Sec- 1
tion 2324, Revised Statutes of the Uni- a
ted States of America, and the amend- J
ments thereto, being the amount re- ^
quired to hold the same for the calen- a
deryear 1921, and the fiscal year 1922, c
prior to the 1st day of July thereof.
And if within ninety I
days from the service of this notice (or I
within ninety days after this notice by (
publication is comoleted), you, or eith s
er of you, fail or refuse to contribute £
your proportion of said expenditure ac- £
cording to your respective interests, ]
your interest in said claim, as co-owners
will become the property of the subscri l
ber under said section 2324.
Dated McCarthy,Alaska, this 20th
day of June, 1923. ^
George Marhoffer
First publication June 23, 1923;
Last publication Sept. 22, 1923.
IN THE PROBATE CO CJKT
for McCarthy precinct,
THIRD DIVISION, TERRITORY
OF ALASKA.
Before Honorable Wm. D. Cop
pernoll, United States Commis
sioner and Ex-Officio Probate
Judge
NO. 51
In the Matter of the Estate of
Carl Stattel, Deceased.
Notice of Settlement of Final
Account.
Notice is hereby given that Aron
Crickson, administrator of the estate of
Jarl Stattel, deceased, has rendered
nd presented for settlement and filed
a said court the final account of his
dministration of said estate; and that
Yiday, the 14th day of September,
923, at the hour of 2 o’clock in the
fternoon of said day, at the courtroom
if said court in the Town of McCarthy,
Perritory of Alaska, has been duly ap
►ointed by said court as the time and
dace for the settlement of said final ac
ount. at which time and place any per
on interesteb in said estate may appear
ind file exceptions in writing to said
ccount and contest the same.
Dated at McCarthy, Alaska, July 12,
.923.
Seal] Wm. D. Coppernoll
Probate Judge
First Publication July 14, 1923.
l*ast Publication August 11, 1923.