Chamber
of
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
Hyder
Chamber of Commerce |
Incorporated
Regular Meeting Second J
Wednesday of the Month j
THE BARGAIN COUNTER
If you wish to sell some useful sec
ond hand commodity or wish to buy
something, we will list your wants in
this classified colum at the low rate
of 10 cents per line. Watch this col
umn for bargains.
1 Baby Ben Alarm Clock .$1.00
1 Large Butcher knife, new .60
1 3-blade Remington pocket knife .50
1 14 lb. sledge hammer .1.50
2 hand axes, each .75
1 Iron Oot and Spring, only *4.00
2 dozen steel mink traps, only 2.50
Salmon trolling spoons, each .mi
1 Diston Hand Saw, cutoff only *1
10 gal. gas. pressure tank.
Large Fyre-Fyter fire extinguisher.
Small cook stove
Iron heating stove.
Hand force pump
Iron laundry stove
Full bed and spring.
3-4 bed and spring.
2 3-4 bed mattresses.
1 wood door >
Large electric lamps—100-150 watt.
Fairbanks-Morse 1-2 h. p. motor anil
J. K. force pump, heavy duty, slightly
used-bargain.
Also several plain chairs, shovels,
saws, axes, tools, cooking and table
utensils, straight razors, scissors, and
numerous other good and useful art
Icles at give-away prices. No matter
what you want, see us, we may have
it or can get it for you.
Cardboards, in varied grades
and colors at the Herald office,
Phone 82.
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The Hydsr Weekly Herald
RADIO PROGRAM
K O M O
Sunday, January 14
7:00 Chevrolet Motor Co.
7:30 Hall of Fame
8:00 Ben Tipp Program
8:15 Walter Winchell.
8:30 Death Valley Days.
9:00 The King’s Men
9:15 Pioneers.
9:45 Crazy Crystals Program.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Musicale.
10:30 Washington Hour.
Monday, January 15
7:00 Carnation Company.
7:30 Demi Tasse Revue.
8:00 Amos ’n’ Andy.
8:15 Crazy Wells Water Co.
8:30 Voice of Firestone.
9:00 Sealed Power Side Show.
9:30 Male Quartet.
9:45 Artistic Trio
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Mark Hopkins Orch.
11:00 Club Villa Orchestra.
11:30 Arion Trio NBC
Tuesday, January 16
7:00 Phillips Lord, NBC.
7:30 Ralston Purina Co.
7:45 Beauty That Endures.
8:00 Amos ’n’ Andy.
8:15 Memory Lane.
8:45 Adventures in Health.
9:00 Blue Ribbon Orchestra.
9:30 Winning the West.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Mark Hopkins Orch.
11:00 Club Villa Orchestra.
11:30 Bal Tabarin Orch.
Wednesday, January 17
7:00 Corn Cob Pipe Club.
7:30 Ben Tipp program.
7:45 Crazy Wells Water Co.
8:00 Amos ’n’ Andy.
8:15 Warden Lawes
8:45 Stars of The West
9:15 To be announced
9:30 Best Foods Revue
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Mark Hopkins Orch.
11:00 Club Villa Orchestra.
11:30 Bal Tabarin Orch
Thursday, January 18
7:00 Whiteman’s Orchestra.
8:00 Amos ’n’ Andy.
8:15 Standard Symphony.
9:15 Male Chorus
9:30 Musical Mannequins.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Mark Hopkins Orch.
11:00 Club Villa Orchestra.
11:30 Bal Tabarin Orch.
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Friday, January 19
7:00 The First Nighter.
7:30 One Man’s Family
8:00 Amos ’n’ Andy.
8:15 Gilmore Circus, NBC.
9:15 Herb Dana on Football
9:30 The King’s Men
9:45 Ben Tipp Program.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Mark HopkinsOrch.
11:00 Club Villa Orchestra.
11:30 Bal Tabarin
Saturday, January 20
7 :00 Dancing Program.
8:00 Caswell Coffee Concert.
8:15 Happy Tunes NBC
j 8:30 Fisher Half Hour.
I 9:00 30 Minutes of Music.
9:30 Concert Trio
10:00 Merrie Maniacs
10:30 Blue Moonlight.
11:00 Club Villa Orchestra.
11:30 Slumber Hour
HOW -
TO FIND BUSHKI.S OF CORN,
WHEAT AND OATS IN CHIB.—
The following rules are from the
I’urdue university agricultural ex
periment station: Outs come tin
der the classification of “grain and
shelled corn.’’ Where optional fig
ures are offered, the exact figure
depends upon the Judgment of per
sons familiar with the condition of
the product measured.
To find the number of bushels of
grain or shelled corn In u bln, mul
tiply the length by the width by
the depth (all In feet) and divide
by 1% or multiply by .8. To find
the number of bushels of ear corn
In a crib, multiply the length by
the width by the average depth (all
in feet) and divide by from 2 to
2V4, depending on the quality and
condition of the corn. If the crib
is round, square the diameter of
the crib, and multiply by the aver
age depth of the corn (all in feet),
then multiply by .7854, and divide
by from 2 to 2*i or multiply by
from .5 to .4.
How “Whoopee” Started
in Its Modern Meaning
Started In Montreal and caught up
by the American press, there flourishes
a lively discussion of "whoopee,” the
word.
Is it slang? Not at all, the papers
declare, pointing out that the good old
word used more than three centuries
ago by Massinger and Dekker in their
play “The Virgin Martyr,” which con
tains the line, “Nay, lady, for my part,
I'll cry whoopee.”
Well, so it was. That very line is
quoted in the Standard Dictionary.
Hut no one in those ancient days ever
spoke of “making whoopee,” and the
same authority defines It as originally
“a cry of exultation or urging"—a lit
tle like our modern “wow" or “atta
boy,” we assume, but, nevertheless,
quite conventional. Reading on, how
ever, we find it recognized as slang in
its secondary meaning, and when you
speak of “making whoopee” you can
no longer claim to be keeping within
the bounds of Seventeenth-century
English.
Lexicographers are still wondering
how the word got to America, but it
seems clear that cowboys were the
first to use it here, and that circus
people took it up. But even then It
remnlned for New York to transform
“whoopee” Into a noun and add it to
our vocabulary of alcoholic slang.—
Literary Digest.
How Smoko Screen! Aro Laid
There 8 re two distluct types of
smoke apparatus which hare been de
veloped for airplanes. The smoke
material used In both types Is titanium
tetrachloride. One method of gener
ating smoke Is known as the “curtain
tyi>e" of apparatus, In which the
smoke material is discharged from the
plane toward the rear at the same
velocity as the forward speed of the
plane. This results In the formation
of large liquid drops at approximately
the altitude of the plane. As these
drops fall toward the earth, they slow
ly evaporate and react with the mois
ture of the air to form a dense white
smoke, which presents the appearance
of a falling curtain. A plane of the
Martin bomber type can lay a curtain
approximately 400 feet high.
How Picture Frame* Gained Favor
Picture frames are of comparatively
modern origin. There Is no record of
their existence earlier than the Six
teenth century. Originally frames
were mude of wood or composition
overlnld on wood. The introduction In
the Seventeenth century of larger
sheets of glass gave the art of frame
making great Impetus and In the
Eighteenth century the Increased de
mand led to the invention of a com
position which could be readily molded
Into various patterns.
How Moth Fertilises Yucca
The yucca-moth emerges at the time
of opening of the flowers, which fre
quently reinalu open only for a single
night. The female moth rolls togeth
er a ball of pollen, flies to another
flower, lays four or five eggs In the
pistil and inserts the pollen mass in
the opening thus formed. Each larva,
on hatching from the egg, requires
about 20 seeds of the yucca plant as
food. As the plant produces some 200
ovules, this leaves about 100 seeds over
JUNEAU SCENE OF
MURDER-SUICIDE
Murder and suicide ended the
lives of two .young Juneau peo
ple Dec. 29, when Mrs. Astrid
CroWell, a recent divorcee,
shot and killed Leroy Vestal,
clerk in the U. S. Steamboat
Inspectors’ office, and then
turned the pistol upon herself.
A note left by the girl indicated
she planned the tragedy and
deliberately carried rt out, but
gave no reasons for her act.
Mrs. Sallie M. Taylor, 76,!
mother of Ike P. Taylor, A.R.
C. official,' died recently in
Juneau.
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also $3050°° IN CASH AWARDS
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those 304 cash nnd 2 special awards for
fur shipper*? Awards are for careful
pelt preparation In Sears f»th National
Fur Show 1 You have as good a chance
as anyone, because only the handling
counts ... not the kind or value of the
fur. All awards are in addition to the
highest market prices that wo, acting
as your agent, get you for your furs.
HIGHER PRICES ;
FOR YOUR FURS
Through
Through Sears Free Raw Fur Market
ing Service you get full market value
for your furs . . . more than you would
ordinarily secure anywhere else. In ad
dition, every fur shipped to Sears is
automatically entered in the competition. j
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Johnny Muskrat’s latest “Tips to Trap
pers” booklet tells you how the modern
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money for your furs. Also lists
those who earned cash awards
last season. Your friends*
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to perpetuate tne plant. The yucca
can he fertilized by no other insect.
How Term "Red Tape” Originated
During the Eighteenth century it
was the custom to tie up legal docu
ments in red tape. Sydney Smith, an
eminent writer and clergyman of the
time, popularized the term in a satiri
cal sense by humorously suggesting
that the numerous and lengthy delays
attached to all government transac
tions were due to the everlasting ty
ing and untying of red tape on docu
ments and dispatch cases.
How Long Toys Have Been Used
The doll Is the oldest toy known
and has been found among practically
all nations from the remotest an
tiquity. A remarkable collection of
dolls has been made by Edward Lov
ett of I/union, of which the oldest is
a doll 4,<KK> years old, found in an
Egyptian tomb.
How Peanuts Grow
The peanut is a tropical plant of
the bean family, of erect habit, with
hairy stem and bright yellow dowers,
whose peduncles bend after fertiliza
tion and push the pods into the
ground, where they ripen.
Hyder Democrats Hold
Lively Caucus Session
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and understanding regarding
the Alaska fisheries and fur
bearing animals, and particu
larly the status of the Pribil'of
seal herds, which could not
under any conditions be “steal
thily transferred” to the Ter
ritory or “Morgan^owned mo
nopoJy,” even had the Alaska
Delegate sio designed. In fact
the article leaves no other im
pression than that it was writ
ten either with deliberate mal
ice or was designed to cbver
the trail of interests which
have no regard for the Terri
tory.
However, the screed was suf
ficient to raise the ire of the
caucus and a resolution was
passed “unreservedly denounc
ing and condemning the infer
ences 'of said article, and also
the so called ‘prominent resi
dent of Juneau, who, the reso
lution said, “provided to all
appearances the inspiration as
well as the material for said
article, and whose motives ap
pear to have their base in the
desires of certain interests,
themselves monopolistic, to cir
cumvent and defeat for pri
vate gain the proposed legisla
tion and thereby prevent the
Territory of Alaska and its
citizens from controlling and
deriving the full and just ben
efit of its inherent resources.”
The resolution also con
demned and denounced “the
unjust and calumnious infer
ences” that the Alaska Dele
gate “is a party to any ‘steal
thy” or deceptive effort lo be
tray the people of Alaska by
handing over the resources of
this Territory to ‘private con
trol an dmonopoly for looting.”
The resolution concluded
with a warm commendation of
the Alaska Delegate and his
activities on behalf of the Tei'
ritory and urged the Division
al Convention “to take steps
to refute and secure retract
ion of the calumnious and in
defensible attempt of the
Seattle Star to besmirch the
fair reputation of the Alaska
Delegate and ta cast reflection
on the integrity of the Legis
lative and Administrative of
ficials of the Alaska govern
ment.”
Copies were ordered sent to
the convention and the Alaska
Delegate.
B. B. Smith was chairman of
the meeting and Holger" John
son officiated as secretary.
Proxies for the local delega
tion have been sent to Demo
cratic National Committeeman
J. J. Connors, who will repre
sent them at the convention.
John H. Biggs, proprietor of
the Gastineau hotel in Juneau,
and one of the most widely
known of Alaskans, died a few
days ago from heart and stom
ach trouble, aged 67 years. De
ceased was an 1897 pioneer of
the Klondike.