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NEWSPAPER.
Where do you obtain your
„ knowledge of current events,
science, politics and the great
er part of your education?
From the newspapers.
When merchants need busi
ness, through what medium do
they obtain it?
The newspapers.
When the community and the
churches, schools, civic and
welfare organizations of the
community need community
action and cooperation, to
what do they appeal?
The newspaper.
These are some of the reas
ons why the home town news
paper is YOUR newspaper and
why communities are only as
strong and progressive as their
newspapers. If there is one
quick cure for community som
nolence it is a wide-awake
newspaper.
The first duty of a newspaper
is to transmit to its readers the
thoughts and activities of hu
manity at home and abroad,
but the value of that other de
partment of the daily news
paper-advertising-should be
overlooked by none. The pub
lic anticipates its shopping by
scanning the advertisements in
the newspapers and the mer
chants anticipate their business
by newspaper advertising. Ad
vertising is a mutual proposit
ion between all concerned.
Before the rise of present in
tensive newspaper advertising
the public was powerless to
plan its buying. Money, time
and unsatisfaction was the
price paid. At the same time
the merchants had to be con
tent to wait for business and
the most of it came Saturday
afternoon and evening, seldom
on Monday and never in the
morning. Newspapers and the
universal employment and ap
preciation of newspaper adver
tising permits the public to
plan its shopping and has
made business for every week
day.
GROUNDHOG DAY.
While giving an evening lect-1
lire Henry Ward Beecher was i
interrupted by a loud imitation
of a cock-crow from the gal
lery. Looking from his watch
to the window the noted speak- j
er replied to the embar-!
rassment of his heckler:
“It can not be that I have :
talked until daybreak and yet I
it must be. The instinct of the,
lowers animals is infallible.’'
The Groundhog Day myth is
no more a test of the infalli
bility of animal instinct than
was Beecher’s pun. If it serves »
as a test at all it is a test of j
[human gullibility and super-J
1 stilion. And if the test shows j
a high percentage of both gul-i
’ibiiity and superstition it5
would not be surprising, for:
most people will believe any-*
idling about the weather, j
whether prophecy, almanac:
prediction, “sure sign” or “say
ing.”
Nevertheless, the Groundhog-!
Day fable is an interesting and
valuable bit folk-lore wor- j
thy of perpetuation and of i
annual commemmoration. The
groundhog’s shadow doesn’t!
determine the weather one j
way or another, but it plays i
an important part in the tra-1
ditions of the country. Thisi
weather fable is a part of the!
true American folklore. That
some abide by the groundhog’s
forecast does not in any meas
ure detract from the value of 1
tradition as folklore.
As the Groundhog Day story
goes, there will be a return of
wintry weather if the ground
hog is frightened back into his ;
hole by his shadow. In those
parts of the country where
the groundhog makes his bur
row wintry weather persists
several weeks after February !
2, so the prediction is without !
value except to make a dark
and dismal February day tol
erable to those who trust that
a sunless February 2 augurs i
an early spring. i
And, by the way, the sun
shone brightly in Hyder for a
short time Thursday morning, i
but if the Groundhog was a bit
late in rising he failed to see
his shadow, as it was cloudy
during the rest of the day.
Just for Fun
A feminine writer say3 nc
wife should suffer in silence.
But if she is silent, how car
she keep from suffering?
In Utopia the rents are just
as high as here, but the tenant
acquires title to the property
after he has paid for it seven
times.
Don Mills says it is the head
of the family who usually has
to foot the bills.
A Paris husband shot no few
er than three men whom he
suspected of being on too good
terms with hi3 wife.
What times wives in Paris
do have.
The best thing to purchase
savings bank account.
“Eaves dropping again,’’ said
Adam, as his playmate fell
out of the apple tree.
First Partner: “In what posit
ion does your son wish to en
ter the business?”
Second Partner: “Well, so far
as I can make out, he wants to
start near the top and loaf up
wards.”
Jimmy giggled when the
teacher read the story of a man
who swam a river three times.
‘You do not doubt that a train
ed swimmer could do that, do
you?” asked the teacher.
‘No, sir,” replied Jimmy, “but
I wonder why he did not make
it four and get back to the side
where his clothes were.”
E. D. Haddon says a great
many people are a howling
success at just howling.
An old countryman, who had
been to a nearby city for the
first time on business, return
ed in a bad temper.
“At that hotel," he complain
ed, “they kept the light in my
bedroom burning all night. 1
wouldn’t get a wink of sleep.”
“Why didn’t you blow it out?”
asked his wife.
“Blow it out?” said the old
man. “I couldn’t. It was in a
bottle!”
A man seldom hears the
<nock of opportunity if he
eays too much attention to the
\nocks of the neighbors.
Times haven’t changed much.
3ack in pioneer days the pe
iestrian had to dodge the
ieadly rattler, also.
The catalogue price enables
mu to estimate the cost of
ceeping daughter in college.:
fust multiply by three.
When one of these old boys!
rets the flapper craze, it
eems peculiarly fitting to call1
linj a sexiginarian.
General Booze has neyor lost
i battle. Ask the men who.
ought him. j
How time flys between seven
tnd eight in the morning!
*1
PORTER IDAHO
ANNUAL MEETING
Continued from Page 1
of packing 50%.
Every year about this time
someone has a dream about
the Porter Idaho escrow stock.
We anticipated that dream this
year, and thought that we
would be one step ahead, so
we renewed the Escrow Agree
ment on December 5th, 1927,
but did not advertise the same.
However, there is more stock
in escrow for 1928 than there
was in 1927. I am sure of this,
cor I have the Agreement and
the escrowed stock in the Com
pany’s safe, and both will re
main there until February 1st,
1929, the expiration date of
the Agreement.
I wish to take this opportun
ity of thanking the Directors
and everyone who has worked
wth me, for the efficient help
that each has rendered at all
limes, and trust that the com
ing season will be a most suc
cessful one in the history of the
Porter Idaho.
Respectfully submitted,
"""Clay Porter,
Managing Director.
A total of 125.374 tons of ore
(net smelter weight) was ship
ped to the Trail smelter during
the year and yielded gross re
ceipts of $39, S80.67 from 134.
23 oz. of gold,, 64,954.05 oz.
of silver, and 103,728 pounds
of lead. Freight charges
amounted to $1,168. 48 and
melter treatment and deduct
ions totaled $2,973.68, leaving
the net smelter returns from
ore $35,438.56 for the season's
operations.
Total receipts from all |
sources during the year
amounted to $37,809.20 while
expenses, including $7,095.09
! for ore packing by pack train.
[ Abe had shot a man, and was
| sentenced t o be electrocuted.
On the morning of the exe
cution the warden told him
how sorry he was, and how it
was going to cost the state
five hundred dollars to electro
cute him.
“Bun) business,” spoke up
Goldberg. *( (Jive me fifty dol
lars and I’ll shoot mysejfJ”
Chamber
of
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
HIKING PISTJIJCT
::
by far the largest individual
item of exp en.se, totaled $14,
320.94, lea\ ing a surplus for
year’s opera tion amounting to
! $23,488.26.
The mine development ac
count shows t» ital expenditures
to December 31st of $23,570
| .95, of which $13,632.77, was
expended for labor, $2,943.78
for boarding honse mainte
nance and for man
agement, office rentcJs and of
fice salaries.
The company balance sheet
shows cash in banks amount
ing to $19,419.21, supplies on
hand amounting to $2,398.29;
fixed assets, including the
mine property, valued at $1,
088,356.23, of $1,097,861.11,
which with other items, includ
ing mine development expendi
tures, discounts and commiss
ions, on stock, bring the total
listed assets to $1,226,634.90
Liabilities include capital stock
of $2,000,000.00 less $825,703
.90 in unissued shares; the
mine surplus for 1925-6-7 tot
aling $48,919.90, and current
liabilities and outstanding
checks amounting to $3,418.00
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
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LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSt
Meets Second and Fourth
Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
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U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
GEOROE B. GRIGSBY
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KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
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Assay Office
Hyder, Alaska
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