The
McCarthy
Weekly News
Entered as second class matter. Septem
ber 17th, 1918 at the lost Office, at
McCarthy, Alaska, under the Act of
March 3. 1879.
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C.F.M. COLE. MAX ACER
M. M.COLK. EDITOR
McCarthy, Alaska,
Saturday, Dec 14th. 1918.
STRANG THINGS WE HEAR
McCarthy is in many instanc
es the home' of pnadox.
It is located in a territory which
was rendered “bone dry” by the
majority vote of its people, so
dry th t liquor can not even be
purebred for medicinal purpos
es, y,, 11 is said that those v/‘ o
“in t ie k ow” can secure liquor
in Me r hy if they desire.
This town was rd.Sv> inc'udeJ
in the At oiney Ce ncral’s order
which required lie elosirg of
restricted district ; last July 1st
Obeying this order, those res
idents who did not leave the
country .changed their abode, and
engaged in various branched of
business.
Now, one of them compl tins
th; t on two different occasions
she has hren robbed of consid
erate sums of money.
It appears to an outsider that
if these people are endeavoring
to earn ..n honest living in a
peacable manner they should
have protection. If they are not,
why shold they be permitted to
ply their trade in the business
section?
Would it not be more decent
if the Attorney General s order
were rescinded?
LETTER FROM THE FRONT
Iu a letter to Mr. and Mrs.P
Boutin our fellow townsman says
“I received your letter a few
days ago, and was sure glad to
hear from you. Sergeant Foster
and myself took the $3.00 went
out and had a french dinner as
a treat from our old friends in
McCarthy, I sure appreciated
your thoughtfulness a great deal.
I am getting along fine, we had
a good trip across the water,
have been in Scotland, England
and are now in France, I cant
say a great deal about what we
are doing or our location, but we
are well fed and as well taken
care of as conditions will permit
Leave that to our offic irs, of
which we figure we have the
best in France, from captain to
corpora1, not a grouch in the
whole bunch and we really want,
for nothing. Tobacco is sold
to us at actual cost, cheaper than
! we could buy it in U. S. A.
The climate is miserable cold
and damp overhead and mu ld.v
underfoot.
The Pren i farmers live in
villages about 15 families in a
group, and their farms are lo
cated all roun l the village. Each
vllige has a schoolhouse and a
!
church and the whole country is
located with villages about two
miles apart. Centering these viil
ages here and there ia a city
1 where they market their product
Their houses are all built of
stone*. Horses, cows, hogs chick
ens, hayloft, granary and living
quarters are all under one roof.
Men, women and children all
wear wooden shoes wh le at vvosk
I they are all old men, women and
| children working the farms, all
, the able bodied French of both
sexes are at the fro it.
I showed your letter to a mini
b.-rof the boys and it told them
in itself bow the M Carthy peo
pie feel towards us lads at the
front.
Well, as I cant say any more
I will close,Sergeant Foster joins
me in sending kindest regards
to all our old friends.
If living and able I will drod a
line, my first night in G»rm iny
the beggars are rambling are a
rambling right now, it is very
evident that the Yankee boysuo
not look good to them.
Be sure and write as it makes
me very happy when I receive
etters.
I remain your friend,
John A. Crowe,
Co.D.27th Engineers
A. E. F. via New York
i
— Our courtesy and consideration,
have given us your loyal and active support.
We thank you. —
BANK OF ALASKA
FOOD WILL WIN THE WORLD
Peace negotiations are under
way, but the food fight is not
over.
The appeal now is to the vivid
cons easiness oi every American
The point of view has changed
flrom a war necessity to a human
itarian appeal. Conservation
tikes the place of regulation.
Our new slogan is “Food wi’l
win the world”, forcibly bring
ing to our attention the imperat
ive need for saving Too l and
sharing it with the Allies and
the liberated nations of Europe.
Excellent work was done dur
I ink the trying days when so
j many rules and regulations had
! to.be announced and then very
often cii inged or rescinded.
Now we will not be bothered
with regulations at least lor
I some time to come.
| Our surplus stuffs i( we do
not waste and economize is up
I wards of twenty billion tons;
land it is propose.t to exhort this
j amount until conditions are nor
mal among toe starving millions
of Europe,
Mr Hoover is now in Europe
perfecting an organization for
distribution of tnis food. Jus.,
before e ■ saileu las.i month, lie
>ureleased 275,Uu» tons which is
now mi its way ai icss the At
lantic.
In his last nessage Mr. Hoov
er says:“Our lirs and deepest
concern now must be for the
little allies who were under the
German yoke., alley are the Bel
gians, Serbians, Rumanians,
Greeks, Czechs and others, they
must be systematically helped
luida > once. We have already
doubled the stream of food into
Belgium.”
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